Staff Software Engineer - Owner & Cross-Team Tech Lead

AmTrav; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Perk is seeking a Staff Engineer to own the technical vision across multiple teams within a fast‑growing Flights domain. You will coordinate with product, design, and operations to drive scalable, reliable systems while mentoring others and shaping architecture.

You will work in a backend‑heavy environment using Python and AWS, embracing AI‑augmented workflows and agentic coding. The role emphasizes real ownership, collaboration, and delivering impact at scale.

Qualifications

• End-to-end ownership of problems from understanding customer pain to deployment and impact.
• Autonomy and pragmatism with minimal friction in development.
• Experience leading multi-team technical initiatives and architectural direction.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate across squads to align on technical direction and priorities.
• Design scalable, evolvable systems while balancing long‑term and near‑term delivery.
• Mentor engineers, perform design reviews and support production reliability.
• Operate services with observability, incidents handling and post‑mortems.
• Collaborate with product, design and operations across teams on travel domain work.

Skills

Product engineering mindset

Cross‑team technical leadership

Architectural judgment

You build it, you run it

Domain complexity

Backend‑heavy, full‑stack

Operational maturity

Mentorship and influence

AI‑driven development

Tools

Python

AWS

Job description

Perk is seeking a Staff Engineer to own the technical vision across multiple teams within a fast‑growing Flights domain. You will coordinate with product, design, and operations to drive scalable, reliable systems while mentoring others and shaping architecture.

You will work in a backend‑heavy environment using Python and AWS, embracing AI‑augmented workflows and agentic coding. The role emphasizes real ownership, collaboration, and delivering impact at scale.