Engineering Manager Barcelona
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Job Summary
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 were on a mission to power real work with real impact.
Were trusted by more than 10000 companies worldwide including Wise On Running Breitling and Fabletics and were 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 1800 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 were 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 youre excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work wed love you on the team.
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As an Engineering Manager this position involves:
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
Required skills and experience:
You have around 5-8 years of experience managing software engineers
For this role were 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 its 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.
How We Work
At Perk we take an IRL-first approach to work where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity productivity creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.
For certain roles we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.
Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. Were an equal opportunity employer which means youre welcome at Perk regardless of how you look where youre from or anything else that makes you well you.
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All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @ or @ our verified social media channels or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment training or fees request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp Telegram or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious please do not respond. Forward it to and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
