Engineering Manager - Events

About the role

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 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, 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 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 to learn more. As an Engineering Manager for the Perk Events team, you'll lead a distributed group of experienced engineers responsible for building and evolving the core group booking and events platform within Perk. You'll manage a team of engineers located in the Barcelona hub, partnering closely with the squad lead, product, and design to deliver complex, high-impact initiatives in a fast-moving environment. The team is currently executing on several urgent strategic bets - including an AI-powered event planner - requiring strong technical leadership, thoughtful prioritization, and the ability to help teams execute effectively while maintaining engineering quality. In this role, you'll help shape the technical direction of the platform, support the team in navigating a highly specialized domain while also contributing individually to the codebase and spearheading initiatives. While deep domain expertise in travel tech or MICE is not a strict requirement, experience working within complex transactional systems with multiple external integrations is highly valued. Through strong people leadership, technical judgment, and operational excellence, you'll help scale a seamless events booking experience for customers across Europe & US. As an Engineering Manager, you will: Being accountable for the delivery and personal development of your team(s) Acting as servant leader to your engineers and adapting your leadership style to the needs of the situation Taking 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 Enabling 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 Being a key part of the recruitment and growth of the engineering team. Working 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 Providing 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. Required skills and experience: You have around 5-8 years of experience managing software engineers 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.

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