About Us

TravelPerk is a global travel and expense management platform. Its all-in-one platform gives travelers the freedom they want whilst providing companies with the control they need. The result saves time, money, and hassle for everyone.

About Us

TravelPerk is a global travel and expense management platform. Its all-in-one platform gives travelers the freedom they want whilst providing companies with the control they need. The result saves time, money, and hassle for everyone.

TravelPerk has industry-leading travel inventory alongside powerful management features, 24/7 customer support, state-of-the-art technology, and consumer-grade design.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Barcelona, we’ve grown to over 1,800 people across Europe and North America. In 2022 we became a ‘unicorn’ and in 2025 we raised $200 million in a Series E funding round, increasing our valuation of $2.7 billion.

We’ve been winning awards too. Since 2023, we’ve been voted one of the best places to work, one of the fastest-growing apps and tech companies, and a leading pioneer of business travel.

These are just some of the reasons why global brands like Wise, Red Bull, GetYourGuide, and Aesop trust us to get the most out of their travel.

Hear more about TravelPerk.

This role is focused on leadership across the different teams working on the Flights vertical. This includes work to scale and maintain our existing platform, reacting to changes in the Flights industry and continuing to expand and evolve our current offering. To do this you’ll work across multiple cross discipline teams directly and indirectly to put in place the relevant technical processes and delivery practices to ensure the right work gets done in a sustainable manner.

You’ll work with other engineering managers, product managers, design and product operations to ensure the right balance of investment across different priorities. You will be accountable for the overall delivery and operational health and use effective delegation to give direction and support to the other managers working in this space.

As one of the fastest growing product areas the team and scope of services has expanded significantly in recent years. It will be your job to ensure responsible ownership and knowledge sharing for services where it is no longer possible for one team to understand everything. There are multiple other teams and company goals tied to Flights and these will also require support and your understanding to set Flights up for success.

Some Of The Key Responsibilities Include

• Accountability for the quarterly and longer term planning and delivery in conjunction with staffing to ensure a healthy balance of priorities can be delivered for a group of around 20 engineers
• Working with product and engineering mangers with other discipline leads to develop and evolve a long-term strategy and roadmap for the team build the right team structure to deliver these priorities
• Ensuring coordination and communication between internal and external dependencies including other teams in TravelPerk and external third parties
• Working with EMs and senior ICs to put in place the relevant medium and long term technical investments and standards to support our goals and scale the domain
• Mentoring other EMs and senior ICs while ensuring the relevant individual and team development plans are in place
• Providing a holistic, single source of truth for the health and delivery for the Flights domain and representing this to the rest of the business
• Being a key part of the recruitment and growth of the engineering team
  
  

• You have around 5-8 years of experience managing software engineers and at least 1-2 years managing multiple teams and leading other managers
• 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 it’s 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.
• An understanding of how engineering impacts product and business needs
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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