Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world’s leading business travel marketplace. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact. There's an exciting road ahead of us, where travel needs real, impactful change.With offices in New Zealand, Australia, North America, and China, we are thrilled to be expanding our global footprint, landing our new hub in Bengaluru, India. With a rapid growth plan in place, we’re hiring people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to help us build a world-class team and product.As a Principal Engineer in the Serko.ai Experience department, you are a key technical leader across every pod. You're trusted with high autonomy to own major initiatives end-to-end and make the daily technical calls that keep teams shipping fast. You tackle the complex, system-level challenges that span beyond a single pod—proactively resolving gaps in our shared architecture, shaping solution design, and bringing clarity to our hardest engineering problems.RequirementsYou work alongside fellow Principal Engineers and our Senior Principal Engineer, so that several major initiatives can move in parallel. You set a high technical bar, leading by example through the work you do and staying hands-on enough to unblock others — shaping solutions early, guiding technical choices, and reviewing what gets built, so pods can take real ownership of their delivery.What you'll doOwn System-Level Scope: Make day-to-day architectural calls and solve cross-cutting infrastructure challenges to strengthen the foundations every pod builds on.Elevate Engineering Craft: Partner early on solution design, set shared quality standards, and mentor Staff/Senior Engineers so teams move fast without compromising quality.Lead Agentic AI Adoption: Evaluate and integrate emerging AI capabilities, ensuring responsible, safe, and scalable implementation across our growing product surface.Coordinate Strategic Migrations: Lead cross-department service handovers and integrations, aligning engineering efforts across time zones and business units.Connect Tech to Business Strategy: Represent Serko.ai Experience in executive planning and roadmapping, ensuring engineering decisions support the bigger picture.What you'll bringEnd-to-End Ownership & Autonomous Leadership: Proven track record leading major technical initiatives, resolving cross-team dependencies across time zones, and making high-trust architectural decisions that keep teams moving fast.Modern Full-Stack & Front-End Craft: Deep technical strength in Next.js/React, TypeScript, and Python or Node, with a sharp eye for building accessible, high-craft, customer-facing applications.AI & Agentic Fluency: Solid understanding of AI and agentic capabilities—ensuring safe, scalable product adoption while actively using AI-assisted tools to multiply throughput for yourself and surrounding engineers.Systems Infrastructure & Platform Integration: Experience integrating shared platform services into live products and strengthening core developer infrastructure (CI/CD, test automation, dev environments) to elevate department-wide reliability and speed.Collaborative Leadership & Mentorship: Exceptional communication skills with a history of mentoring across multiple teams, co-leading initiatives alongside peer Principals, and guiding solution design without taking over team ownership.BenefitsAt Serko we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work. This means you’ll be operating in an environment with great tools and support to enable you to perform at the highest level of your abilities, producing high-quality, and delivering innovative and efficient results. Our people are fully engaged, continuously improving, and encouraged to make an impact.Some of the benefits of working at Serko are:A competitive base salaryKiwiSaver covered with employee contributions match up to 3.5% of salary, and life insurance.Health & Wellbeing: Discounted Southern Cross Health Insurance, access to confidential support, guidance and counselling services, wellbeing and voluntary leave, and free flu shots.Focus on development: Access to a learning & development platform, committed budget and opportunity for you to own your career pathways.Apply today!
Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world’s leading business travel marketplace. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact. There's an exciting road ahead of us, where travel needs real, impactful change.
With offices in New Zealand, Australia, North America, and China, we are thrilled to be expanding our global footprint, landing our new hub in Bengaluru, India. With a rapid growth plan in place, we’re hiring people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to help us build a world-class team and product.
As a Principal Engineer in the Serko.ai Experience department, you are a key technical leader across every pod. You're trusted with high autonomy to own major initiatives end-to-end and make the daily technical calls that keep teams shipping fast. You tackle the complex, system-level challenges that span beyond a single pod—proactively resolving gaps in our shared architecture, shaping solution design, and bringing clarity to our hardest engineering problems.
Requirements
You work alongside fellow Principal Engineers and our Senior Principal Engineer, so that several major initiatives can move in parallel. You set a high technical bar, leading by example through the work you do and staying hands-on enough to unblock others — shaping solutions early, guiding technical choices, and reviewing what gets built, so pods can take real ownership of their delivery.
What you'll do
- Own System-Level Scope: Make day-to-day architectural calls and solve cross-cutting infrastructure challenges to strengthen the foundations every pod builds on.
- Elevate Engineering Craft: Partner early on solution design, set shared quality standards, and mentor Staff/Senior Engineers so teams move fast without compromising quality.
- Lead Agentic AI Adoption: Evaluate and integrate emerging AI capabilities, ensuring responsible, safe, and scalable implementation across our growing product surface.
- Coordinate Strategic Migrations: Lead cross-department service handovers and integrations, aligning engineering efforts across time zones and business units.
- Connect Tech to Business Strategy: Represent Serko.ai Experience in executive planning and roadmapping, ensuring engineering decisions support the bigger picture.
What you'll bring
- End-to-End Ownership & Autonomous Leadership: Proven track record leading major technical initiatives, resolving cross-team dependencies across time zones, and making high-trust architectural decisions that keep teams moving fast.
- Modern Full-Stack & Front-End Craft: Deep technical strength in Next.js/React, TypeScript, and Python or Node, with a sharp eye for building accessible, high-craft, customer-facing applications.
- AI & Agentic Fluency: Solid understanding of AI and agentic capabilities—ensuring safe, scalable product adoption while actively using AI-assisted tools to multiply throughput for yourself and surrounding engineers.
- Systems Infrastructure & Platform Integration: Experience integrating shared platform services into live products and strengthening core developer infrastructure (CI/CD, test automation, dev environments) to elevate department-wide reliability and speed.
- Collaborative Leadership & Mentorship: Exceptional communication skills with a history of mentoring across multiple teams, co-leading initiatives alongside peer Principals, and guiding solution design without taking over team ownership.
Benefits
At Serko we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work. This means you’ll be operating in an environment with great tools and support to enable you to perform at the highest level of your abilities, producing high-quality, and delivering innovative and efficient results. Our people are fully engaged, continuously improving, and encouraged to make an impact.
Some of the benefits of working at Serko are:
- A competitive base salary
- KiwiSaver covered with employee contributions match up to 3.5% of salary, and life insurance.
- Health & Wellbeing: Discounted Southern Cross Health Insurance, access to confidential support, guidance and counselling services, wellbeing and voluntary leave, and free flu shots.
- Focus on development: Access to a learning & development platform, committed budget and opportunity for you to own your career pathways.
Apply today!
Serko is an award-winning business travel and expense software company that’s winning on a global scale. We’re already the established leader in Australasia and revolutionizing the way people do business travel in the USA and Europe – and we’re growing!While the world of business travel is changing, we’re preparing companies for this with intelligent technology that helps them ensure the continued safety and well-being of their travelers – allowing for complex approvals where needed, giving real-time information about precautions taken by transport and accommodation suppliers, tracking and managing travel around the globe, increasing the flexibility of bookings, giving true visibility and control over costs – and we’re not stopping there. We’re backed by the biggest travel brands in the world like Booking.com and there is an exciting road ahead of us at a time where travel needs real, impactful change.Serko is at the forefront of travel innovation and is one of the most exciting businesses to work for in the high tech sector. We now have upwards of 230 employees in 4 countries so we're still small enough for everyone to know everyone but we're big enough to take on the big boys and win. And that's the plan.We're a diverse, close knit group with a flat structure where everyone's opinion matters and anyone can lead. We value people who have personal integrity, are adaptable, and are courageous with what they do. Serko’s people work collaboratively with energy and enthusiasm – so you’ll want to be up for the ride. All our offices are well equipped, funky and modern and, as you'd expect, equipped with games, exceptional coffee, fresh fruit and snacks. Our environment is upbeat, energetic and fun – and we look for people to add to our culture, not just fit our culture. The work here is challenging, complex and hugely rewarding. We know how to work hard and play hard, with a really lively social scene... and we reward our people well too. To find out more about working at Serko go to http://www.serko.com/about-serko/
Serko is an award-winning business travel and expense software company that’s winning on a global scale. We’re already the established leader in Australasia and revolutionizing the way people do business travel in the USA and Europe – and we’re growing!
While the world of business travel is changing, we’re preparing companies for this with intelligent technology that helps them ensure the continued safety and well-being of their travelers – allowing for complex approvals where needed, giving real-time information about precautions taken by transport and accommodation suppliers, tracking and managing travel around the globe, increasing the flexibility of bookings, giving true visibility and control over costs – and we’re not stopping there. We’re backed by the biggest travel brands in the world like Booking.com and there is an exciting road ahead of us at a time where travel needs real, impactful change.
Serko is at the forefront of travel innovation and is one of the most exciting businesses to work for in the high tech sector. We now have upwards of 230 employees in 4 countries so we're still small enough for everyone to know everyone but we're big enough to take on the big boys and win. And that's the plan.
We're a diverse, close knit group with a flat structure where everyone's opinion matters and anyone can lead. We value people who have personal integrity, are adaptable, and are courageous with what they do. Serko’s people work collaboratively with energy and enthusiasm – so you’ll want to be up for the ride.
All our offices are well equipped, funky and modern and, as you'd expect, equipped with games, exceptional coffee, fresh fruit and snacks. Our environment is upbeat, energetic and fun – and we look for people to add to our culture, not just fit our culture. The work here is challenging, complex and hugely rewarding. We know how to work hard and play hard, with a really lively social scene... and we reward our people well too.
To find out more about working at Serko go to http://www.serko.com/about-serko/
