Job Overview
Location
Barcelona
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 22, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead a distributed team of 8–10 senior software engineers responsible for building and evolving the core card spending experience within the Spend domain at Perk.com.
- • Act as a servant leader, adapting your management style to support individual growth, performance, and career development through coaching and mentoring.
- • Own the delivery of high-impact, complex initiatives in a fast-moving environment, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term platform sustainability and maintainability.
- • Champion technical excellence by ensuring the team has the time, context, and resources to build systems that meet organizational standards for quality, scalability, and reliability.
- • Enable effective collaboration within the team and provide guidance on system architecture, design, and implementation challenges.
- • Develop and evolve a long-term technical roadmap for the Cards Experience team in close partnership with the Product Manager and alignment with the Tribe mission.
- • Drive strategic team building and planning to deliver highly available, scalable features that support Perk’s growth across Europe.
- • Play a key role in recruiting, onboarding, and growing the engineering team, ensuring alignment with technical and cultural needs.
- • Use business and team metrics to deliver a 7-star customer experience, understanding how engineering outcomes directly impact product and business goals.
- • Provide feedback to internal stakeholders in Product and Engineering, and occasionally to wider business teams, to ensure alignment and transparency.
- • Operate with pragmatism and an obsession for simplicity, efficiency, and performance in both technical and organizational problem-solving.
- • Navigate a specialized domain involving card infrastructure, banking integrations, and complex funds flows, even without deep prior payments domain expertise.
- • Adapt quickly to changing priorities and evolving business requirements while maintaining team focus and engineering quality.
- • Foster a high-performing engineering culture that improves the working lives of team members and encourages ownership, curiosity, and purpose.
- • Be based within commuting distance of Perk’s Barcelona hub, as the role requires in-person collaboration 3 days per week.
- • Communicate fluently in English, as it is the official language of the office.
🎯 Requirements
- • 5–8 years of experience managing software engineers
- • Managed teams of 8–10 software engineers
- • Technical background as a former hands-on software engineer
- • Experience building processes and systems of delegation for larger engineering teams
- • Proven ability to conduct effective performance reviews that align with individual aspirations and business needs
- • Pragmatic approach focused on simplicity, efficiency, and performance
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to work with a global team of over 1,800 people across 12 offices
- • In-person collaboration 3 days per week at the Barcelona hub
- • Relocation support available for candidates from anywhere in the world
- • English as the official office language
- • Work on a platform used by 10,000+ companies including Wise, On Running, and Fabletics
- • Culture driven by values: being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team
Skills & Technologies
React
Onsite
About Perk.com Inc.
Perk.com Inc. operates a cloud-based employee rewards and recognition platform that lets employers allocate points redeemable for merchandise, gift cards and experiences. The SaaS product integrates with HRIS and collaboration tools to automate milestone and peer-to-peer awards, provide analytics on engagement, and manage global tax-compliant fulfillment. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company serves mid-market to Fortune 500 clients seeking to reduce turnover and reinforce culture through real-time recognition programs.
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