Staff Software Engineer — AI-Driven Cross‑Team Tech Leader

Perk Inc.

Boston (MA)

Hybrid

USD 174,000 - 215,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership
20 vacation days + 12 holidays
3 medical plans with HSA
401(k) with company matching
Relocation support
Pet insurance discounts

Job summary

Perk is expanding its engineering footprint in North America and seeks a Staff Software Engineer to shape a new product launch from the ground up. You will own the technical vision across teams, coordinate multi-team initiatives, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, reliable systems.

You will work across frontend and backend, using Python and AWS, with a focus on delivering impact and aligning with business goals.

Qualifications

  • End-to-end product engineering mindset with ownership of problems.
  • Experience coordinating multi-team technical initiatives.
  • Ability to design scalable, evolvable systems.
  • "You build it, you run it" experience delivering services in production.
  • Experience in travel or fintech domains preferred.
  • Strong frontend and backend, with full-stack comfort.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical vision across teams.
  • Coordinate across squads and drive alignment across teams.
  • Mentor engineers and conduct design reviews to raise skills.
  • Translate business goals into engineering plans and roadmaps.
  • Define architectural changes needed for scale and performance.
  • Contribute to annual and quarterly planning with product managers.

Skills

Product engineering mindset
Cross-team leadership
Architectural judgment
You build it run it
Domain complexity
Full-stack
Python proficiency
AWS usage

Tools

Python
AWS

Job description

Perk is expanding its engineering footprint in North America and seeks a Staff Software Engineer to shape a new product launch from the ground up. You will own the technical vision across teams, coordinate multi-team initiatives, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, reliable systems.

You will work across frontend and backend, using Python and AWS, with a focus on delivering impact and aligning with business goals.

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