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

Perk Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 215,000; Full time

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.