Software Engineer

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.

Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.

Visit www.perk.com to learn more.

At Perk, our Identity Experience squad owns how users get into Perk and stay in sync. Your work will span SCIM 2.0 provisioning, HRIS integrations (BambooHR, Workday, Merge.dev and more), user lifecycle management, and our calendar service. You'll build the reliable, fault-tolerant pipelines that enterprise customers depend on to keep their workforce data accurate and their employees unblocked from day one.

You'll take real ownership of the features and systems you build — from writing and shipping backend code through to deployment, observability and ongoing reliability — and you'll see directly how your technical decisions affect the onboarding and day-to-day experience of customers across the globe.

How we work

You'll join our Identity Experience (Acquisition) squad, a cross-functional team where engineers have genuine ownership of Perk's user provisioning and identity integration domain. You'll work closely with our Identity Core squad and customer success team, and occasionally engage with enterprise customers to understand how integrations should be designed, delivered and maintained.

AI at Perk

AI is embedded in how we work and what we build. On the engineering side, it spans the whole workflow: our Notion, Jira, GitHub and Slack are AI-connected so you get up to speed fast, and day-to-day it helps with specifying features, writing and reviewing code, and automated AI PR review on every pull request. We also embrace agentic coding, using AI as an active collaborator, not just a prompt-by-prompt co-pilot. We expect candidates to use AI tools in our coding interviews.

Some examples of what you'll do as a Software Engineer at Perk

• Build and ship integrations. You'll implement and maintain HRIS connectors, handling the messiness of third-party APIs — inconsistent schemas, unreliable uptime, and evolving vendor behaviour. You'll write clean, well-tested code that holds up in production.

• Own the full cycle. From picking up a ticket through to deploying a fix or feature, you'll see your work all the way through — including adding structured logging, writing tests, and making sure sync failures surface clearly rather than silently.

• Solve real engineering problems. You'll work on background job processing, state management, data normalisation across third-party schemas, and making provisioning pipelines resilient to failure. These are meaty backend problems with direct customer impact.

• Collaborate and grow. You'll contribute to design discussions, give and receive code review feedback, and work with more senior engineers to develop your technical skills — particularly around distributed systems and integration patterns.

Desired skills and experience

We know the best person for this role might not tick every box below. If you're excited about the problem and bring most of these skills, we'd encourage you to apply.

• Backend Engineering: 4+ years building production backend systems. Comfortable with background job processing, state machines, and working with external APIs that don't always behave as documented.

• Integration Experience: Has built or maintained third-party integrations — REST APIs, webhooks, data sync pipelines — and understands the failure modes that come with depending on external systems.

• Data & Schema Handling: Experience normalising and mapping data across inconsistent schemas; comfortable writing migration plans that don't break production.

• Operational Awareness: Writes code with observability in mind — structured logging, sensible error handling, and alerting that helps the team spot problems before customers do.

• Testing Discipline: Writes meaningful unit, integration and contract tests; understands the difference between coverage and confidence.

• Collaborative Working Style: Gives and receives feedback well, asks good questions in design reviews, and communicates clearly about progress and blockers.

• AI-Driven Development: Experience with or strong interest in modern AI-augmented workflows and agentic coding.

How We Work

At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.

Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams

All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com or @externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security [at] perk .com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.