Android Engineer - Banking in London

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact. We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem. Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from travel and SaaS, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.

We have some really unique problems to solve here, like building a scalable design system for our mobile app, to help us we need an Android Engineer to join the team. You’ll get to be part of a small cross functional team (design, product, web and mobile) that is in charge of supporting platform engineering projects for the rest of the business, helping to ideate new features, improve processes, and have a significant effect on the end user’s experience. We’re not looking for stack experts or X years with Y framework, we like meeting kind, smart people who can learn the right tools and processes to make our product the best in show!

As an Android Engineer, this position involves:

• Product development in Android (Kotlin), supporting customer-facing and platform features
• System architecture design, implementation, and testing
• Working in an Agile environment with attention to detail, quality and continuous integration
• Working closely with people, helping those who need help, contributing to a positive and healthy engineering environment

And also the possibility to get exposure to:

• The ability to develop different parts of our product and do secondments in other teams
• Product development of Backend for Frontend components
• Integrations between our product to 3rd party APIs
• Other cultures and teams across our other hubs in Barcelona, Berlin, London and more

Required skills and experience:

• "Product Engineering" mindset
• Knowledge of Kotlin
• Pragmatism - simplicity, efficiency, and performance
• The desire for quality and testing
• A willingness to learn new technologies and frameworks
• Good communication in English

What do we offer?

• A competitive compensation package, including equity options in Perk;
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays;
• Company Pension Plan with Aviva;
• Private medical insurance from Bupa;
• Life insurance with Zurich;
• Income Protection + Wellbeing App with Unum;
• Access to voluntary dental insurance through Bupa;
• Tax-efficient schemes such as Cycle2Work & electric car leasing via Octopus;
• Discounts on 12-month gym memberships with GymFlex;
• iFeel - a mental health support tool with access to therapists year round;
• Access to a wide variety of discounts and rewards;
• Unforgettable Perk events, including our spectacular annual summer party;
• Parental leave: 12 to 16 weeks, based on location and eligibility factors;
• 16 paid hours per year to volunteer for a cause of your choice;
• A ’Work from anywhere’ in the world allowance of 20 working days per year;
• Exponential growth opportunities

How We Work

At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.

Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams

All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com or @externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security@perk.com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.