Engineering Manager in Barcelona

About the Position

Engineering Manager in Barcelona

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 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, 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.

Responsibilities

As an Engineering Manager, you will:

• Be accountable for the delivery and personal development of your team(s)
• Act as a servant leader to your engineers and adapt your leadership style to the needs of the situation
• Take care of individuals' performance in the organization and support 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 organization
• Enable fluent and effective collaboration within the team, and support 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
• Provide feedback to stakeholders within Builders (Product and Eng) and sometimes the wider business

Requirements

• You have around 5-8 years of experience managing software engineers
• You have managed (and will continue to) around 8-10 software engineers
• You come from a technical background - ideally in software engineering, where you were a hands-on IC
• You are a people manager who builds an effective work culture that improves the working lives of your team
• You have experience managing larger teams where it’s necessary to build processes and systems of delegation to get work done
• You act as a problem finder and solver technically and organizationally, helping the team to overcome any issue that prevents your engineering fellows to perform at their best
• You run effective performance reviews that celebrate achievements and help your team identify where to grow next in line with their aspirations and the needs of the business
• Pragmatism and obsession for simplicity, efficiency, and performance
• You have the 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. This includes driving your team to leverage agentic workflows, develop custom agentic skills to extend AI capabilities

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a fast-growing, well-funded startup
• Diverse and inclusive work environment
• Relocation assistance for certain roles
• English as the official language at the office

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.

Website: www.travelperk.com

Industry: SaaS

Type: Privately Held

Headquarters: Barcelona, Spain

Company Size: 125-150 employees

Founded: 2015

We are TravelPerk: a fast-growing, well-funded startup that, since its creation in early 2015, has raised over $30M by world-class investors in some of the most disruptive companies in the tech industry including Slack, Trello, Twitter, Farfetch, Deliveroo, and Delivery Hero. Our team is made up of A-players from the top companies in the online travel industry - Booking.com and Skyscanner among others.

Are you a Software Engineer with extensive programming experience? Is your code fast, efficient, and reliable? We mainly work with Python/Django & React but we don't close any door to smart people who can bring value to our product.

Do you particularly enjoy working with amazing people, having fun at work, and want to make an impact? If so, let’s talk!