Job Overview
Location
Birmingham
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 22, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead the long-term reliability, scalability, and evolution of Perk’s payments, financial, and billing ecosystems as part of the Pay Sustainability Engineering team.
- • Operate across two core tracks: firefighting and platform support for critical incidents, and medium- to large-scale sustainability initiatives to address technical debt and architectural weaknesses.
- • Provide technical leadership and platform-wide visibility to help engineering teams resolve complex issues and prevent recurring failures, without acting as a delivery team for operational work.
- • Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities to improve the resilience, maintainability, and scalability of the payments platform through thoughtful refactors and system redesigns.
- • Define and shape the strategic vision of sustainability engineering within the Pay organization, partnering with engineering and product teams to align on value propositions and technical priorities.
- • Own the full lifecycle of technical initiatives—from understanding customer pain points with product teams, through design documentation, coding, deployment, to measuring impact.
- • Architect scalable, evolvable systems and data models that account for performance, failure isolation, and long-term maintenance across backend and frontend domains.
- • Establish and uphold engineering excellence by defining CI/CD optimizations, testing strategies, coding standards, frontend architecture patterns (including state management and E2E/Cypress testing), and backend practices (API versioning, caching, data migration).
- • Lead observability and SRE practices by defining SLOs, managing incident responses, and conducting blameless post-mortems to improve system reliability.
- • Oversee operational security including secrets hygiene and dependency risk management to ensure a hardened production environment.
- • Communicate complex technical concepts across multiple teams, coordinate cross-squad initiatives, and drive alignment with stakeholders to resolve technical blockers organization-wide.
- • Actively contribute to engineering guilds, lead design reviews, and mentor junior engineers through pairing sessions, feedback, and modeling best practices.
- • Leverage AI-augmented workflows daily, including AI-powered code reviews, agentic coding tools, and AI-connected Jira, GitHub, Slack, and Notion systems to accelerate development and incident resolution.
- • Maintain autonomy in decision-making while operating within cross-functional squads, with direct influence over what gets built and how it is implemented to meet company goals.
- • Embrace an IRL-first work model, collaborating in-person three days per week at the Birmingham office to foster connectivity, creativity, and team cohesion.
- • Translate complex business goals into technical roadmaps, de-risking ambiguous projects through spikes and prototyping to enable confident execution.
- • Serve as a guardian of technical quality by proactively managing technical debt and ensuring engineering efforts are invested where they create the most customer impact.
- • Raise the bar for the broader engineering organization by influencing the product roadmap with technical data and mentoring peers to elevate overall engineering standards.
🎯 Requirements
- • Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in payments, financial systems, or billing platforms
- • Demonstrated ability to architect scalable, resilient backend and frontend systems with strong focus on performance, failure isolation, and maintainability
- • Experience leading observability, SRE practices, and incident response including SLO definition and blameless post-mortems
- • Strong track record of mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and influencing technical direction across teams
- • Experience with AI-augmented development workflows, including agentic coding and AI-powered code review tools
- • Ability to work in-person three days per week at the Birmingham office
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to shape the strategic direction of sustainability engineering within a global payments platform
- • Autonomy to own end-to-end technical initiatives from problem definition to impact measurement
- • Access to AI-integrated development tools (AI-powered code reviews, agentic workflows, connected Jira/GitHub/Slack/Notion)
- • Collaborative, cross-functional team environment with direct influence over product and technical priorities
Skills & Technologies
Go
GitHub
Cypress
Senior
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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