Job Overview
Location
Barcelona
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 22, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Senior Software Engineer will own the full lifecycle of features within Policy & Control domain, from understanding customer pain points with product teams to coding, deployment, and impact measurement.
- • Architect scalable, evolvable systems and data models that prioritize performance, failure isolation, and long-term maintainability for a global SaaS platform.
- • Define and uphold engineering excellence through CI/CD optimizations, testing strategies, and coding standards across frontend and backend stacks.
- • Establish frontend architecture patterns including state management, performance budgets, and comprehensive E2E testing using tools like Cypress.
- • Engineer sophisticated backend solutions involving API versioning, caching strategies, and complex data migration plans.
- • Lead observability and SRE practices by defining SLOs, managing incident responses, and conducting blameless post-mortems.
- • Oversee operational security including secrets hygiene and dependency risk management to ensure a hardened production environment.
- • Shape product direction by translating complex business goals into technical roadmaps and de-risking ambiguous projects through spikes and prototyping.
- • Write design documents that lay the foundation for major platform changes and act as a guardian of technical quality within your squad.
- • Proactively identify and manage technical debt, ensuring investment of engineering effort is focused on high-impact work rather than busywork.
- • Influence and coordinate cross-squad initiatives, aligning stakeholders across teams to resolve technical blockers and drive alignment on shared goals.
- • Contribute to engineering guilds to align on technical topics and standards across the organization.
- • Mentor junior engineers through direct coaching, feedback during code reviews, and modeling best practices in engineering execution.
- • Support Engineering Managers in identifying technical growth areas and raising the overall bar for engineering quality.
- • Leverage AI-augmented workflows daily, including AI-powered code reviews, agentic coding assistants, and AI-connected tools in Jira, GitHub, Slack, and Notion.
- • Use AI as an active collaborator in development—not just a prompt-based tool—expecting candidates to demonstrate understanding and ownership of AI-generated code in interviews.
- • Work in a cross-functional squad with real ownership over a domain, contributing to quarterly goals and long-term vision alongside Product and Engineering Managers.
- • Operate with autonomy and pragmatism, solving complex problems without unnecessary friction while prioritizing impact over effort.
- • Collaborate in-person three days per week at the Barcelona office, requiring proximity to the hub.
- • Communicate and document in English, the official office language.
🎯 Requirements
- • Proven experience architecting scalable, evolvable systems and data models for high-traffic SaaS platforms
- • Demonstrated leadership in defining and upholding engineering standards across CI/CD, testing, and coding practices
- • Experience with frontend architecture patterns including state management, performance budgets, and E2E testing (e.g., Cypress)
- • Hands-on backend engineering expertise in API versioning, caching, and complex data migrations
- • Proven ability to lead observability, SRE practices, and incident response with blameless post-mortems
- • Experience or strong interest in AI-augmented development workflows, including agentic coding and AI-powered code reviews
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to work on a global platform used by over 10,000 companies including Wise, On Running, and Fabletics
- • Autonomy to own problems and solutions end-to-end with real impact on product direction
- • In-person collaboration three days per week in Barcelona to foster connectivity, creativity, and team cohesion
- • Relocation support available for candidates from anywhere in the world
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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