Engineering Manager - Barcelona

Perk; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 120.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Perk is seeking an Engineering Manager in Barcelona to lead a team of 8–10 software engineers. You will be responsible for delivery, people development, and setting a technical vision aligned with product goals.

A hands-on IC background is valued to guide architecture and engineering excellence. You will champion AI-driven development, foster collaboration across teams, and drive performance reviews alongside the leadership to ensure growth and impact.

Formación

• Proven track record leading 8–10 software engineers.
• Hands-on background as IC in software engineering.
• Experience building processes and delegation for large teams.
• Strong problem solving for technical and organizational challenges.
• Experience with AI-augmented workflows and agentic development.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver and develop your team, with accountability for outputs.
• Serve as a servant leader adapting style to the situation.
• Coach employees on career growth and performance.
• Champion technical excellence and maintain coding standards.
• Foster fluent collaboration and code/design reviews.
• Define and evolve a long-term team strategy with the Product Manager.
• Plan and recruit for scalable growth of features.
• Work with business metrics to deliver great customer experiences.
• Bridge engineering with product and business needs.
• Provide feedback to stakeholders within Eng and beyond.

Conocimientos

Engineering management

People management

Performance reviews

Hiring & recruitment

AI-driven development

System design

Descripción del empleo

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 https://www.perk.com/shadow-work-report.

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 http://www.perk.com to learn more.

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

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. When something goes wrong in production, AI surfaces context across systems quickly. 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. The bar is understanding your code and owning what you produce. That reflects how we work every day.

AI is embedded in how we work across every function. The tools you'll use day-to-day are AI-enabled so you can move faster and spend more time on the work that matters. In practice, that means using AI to research and prioritise accounts, draft and refine outreach, handle customer interactions more effectively, synthesise …

Required skills and experience:

• For this role, we’re looking for someone who has 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 organisationally, 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.