Staff Software Engineer - Flights

Perk Yokoy seeks a Staff Software Engineer for its Flights division in Switzerland. This hybrid role focuses on platform reliability, scaling, and cross-team technical leadership within a global organization.

The Flights division is one of the company's most rapidly expanding engineering groups, having grown from a single team to four since 2025. This position supports mission-driven teams responsible for core platform stability, post-booking user experiences, error recovery, and airline inventory scaling. The engineer will operate within a global organization of over 1,800 employees across 12 offices, with headquarters in London and Boston.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across multiple squads to define shared technical strategies and contribute to quarterly and annual planning cycles.
• Dedicate the majority of working hours to hands-on engineering tasks within one or two specific teams.
• Mentor colleagues, remove blockers, and coordinate with dependent groups to advance shared projects.
• Define annual objectives and identify necessary architectural adjustments to support future growth.
• Support team development through direct mentorship, design reviews, and pair programming sessions.
• Drive alignment across the broader engineering organization and contribute to company-wide initiatives.
• Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders across the business.

Requirements

• Adopt a product engineering mindset, managing the full lifecycle from customer problem identification to deployment and impact measurement.
• Demonstrate proven experience leading multi-team technical initiatives, including dependency management and stakeholder alignment.
• Design scalable, evolvable systems and articulate a clear technical roadmap.
• Manage own services in production, including monitoring, testing, rollout, and operations.
• Possess experience in domains with significant underlying complexity, preferably in flights, travel, or fintech.
• Exhibit backend-heavy full-stack capabilities with deep expertise in backend systems.
• Lead observability and reliability practices, including defining SLOs, incident handling, and blameless post-mortems.
• Show a track record of elevating team performance through mentorship, design reviews, and modeling best practices.
• Reside within commuting distance of company hubs to support an in-person-first work model.

Nice to have

• Experience with or strong interest in modern AI-augmented workflows, including agentic coding and AI-assisted code review.
• Willingness to adapt to tools beyond Python and AWS, provided the candidate demonstrates rapid learning capabilities.

What the company offers

• Potential relocation assistance from anywhere in the world for eligible roles.

About the company

Perk operates as an intelligent platform for travel and spend management, aiming to power real work with real impact. The company combines innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses operate and how employees experience their work. English is the official language in the office.

• The company takes an IRL-first approach to work, requiring the team to work together in-person three days a week.
• The organization believes in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity, and overall workplace satisfaction.

How to apply

Documents to submit:

• Resume
• Portfolio

Application language: English