About the Position

Engineering Manager - Barcelona

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 12,000 companies worldwide, including Bolt, GoCardless, 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, fintech, 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.

Responsibilities

As an Engineering Manager, you will:

Be accountable for the delivery and personal development of your team(s)
Act as servant leader to your engineers and adapting your leadership style to the needs of the situation
Take care of individuals' performance in the organisation and supporting their journey and ownership of their career using coaching and mentoring where appropriate
Act as a technical champion, ensuring that the team has the time and context to build systems that meet the needs and standards of our organisation
Enable fluent and effective collaboration within the team, and supporting them through challenges in system architecture, design or implementation
Develop and evolve a long-term strategy and roadmap for the team, working with the Product Manager and aligned with the Tribe mission
Strategic team building and planning for delivering highly available features that scale with our growth
Be a key part of the recruitment and growth of the engineering team
Work with the business and team metrics to deliver a 7 star experience to our customers
An understanding of how engineering impacts product and business needs
Provide feedback to stakeholders within Builders (Product and Eng) and sometimes the wider business

Requirements

Managed (and will continue to) around 8-10 software engineers
Technical background, ideally in software engineering, where you were a hands-on IC
Experience managing larger teams where it’s necessary to build processes and systems of delegation to get work done
Act as a problem finder and solver technically and organisationally
Run effective performance reviews that celebrate achievements and help your team identify where to grow next
Pragmatism and obsession for simplicity, efficiency, and performance
Ability to adapt and react fast to an ever-changing environment
Managing AI-Driven Development: Experience with-or a strong interest in-modern AI-augmented workflows

We Offer

Competitive salary
Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
Be part of a global company with a diverse customer base
Equal opportunity employer

About the Company

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.

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Engineering Manager - Barcelona

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