Android Engineer

Location: London

Employment Type: Full time

Department: Engineering

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 the travel and SaaS industries, 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.

The Platform function at Perk builds the foundations that the rest of the company depends on. We own the shared infrastructure, core services, and developer tooling that enable product teams to move fast without breaking things. Our work is often behind the scenes, but its impact is everywhere: reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience.

As an Individual Contributor in the Platform function at Perk, you’ll work on the systems that other engineers build on top of every day. That means core services, shared libraries, infrastructure, and developer tooling that need to be reliable, scalable, and quietly dependable.

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:

• Architecting and enhancing CI/CD tooling and workflows for Android development
• Developing custom productivity tools such as CLIs and Gradle plugins to support developers
• Contributing to platform-level architecture initiatives like Compose Multiplatform
• Designing and implementing observability and code-health insights across the Android platform
• Contributing to our Compose-first design system
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve developer experience and productivity

And also the possibility to get exposure to:

• The ability to develop different parts of our application and do secondments in other teams
• Integrations between our application to 3rd party APIs
• Other cultures and teams across our other hubs in Barcelona, Berlin, Zurich and more

Required skills and experience:

• Platform Engineering mindset
• Knowledge of Kotlin & Compose
• A willingness to work on build tooling
• Gradle experience and knowledge is a plus
• Pragmatism - simplicity, efficiency, and performance
• The desire for quality and testing
• A willingness to learn new technologies and frameworks
• Good communication in English

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 at perk.com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.