Lead Backend Engineer

Join Personio as a Lead Backend Engineer

The Role: How you'll make an impact at Personio

This position is office-based with a hybrid working policy in our European offices, including Munich, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Dublin, and London. Note that the hiring location is subject to headcount needs.

At Personio, your work transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. Join our Product & Technology team, where we drive our customers’ outcomes by designing, developing, and delivering innovative and high-quality products. Be empowered to take ownership of your areas and make an impact on your team, our product, and our customers.

As a Lead Engineer, you will be a bar raiser in a mission-based team within the Personio Engineering organization, leading the team's most complex projects. All Lead Engineers are coding hands-on and are responsible for the technical strategy of the team. Additionally, based on your strengths, you will be acting as a multiplier, up-leveling the technical expertise of your team or diving deep into the most complex technical challenges - either way: we are relying on your technical leadership!

There are different areas and products where you can make an impact, either accelerating our established products or developing new ones. In your first interview, we can dive deeper into the different challenges to find the most exciting one for you.

Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Take responsibility for the delivery of larger in-team projects that may have a high level of uncertainty and risk, with a pragmatic approach to estimation, scoping, and planning.
• Follow and promote best practices to solve higher complexity challenges by building reliable, performant, and elegant solutions that are easy to work with.
• Own the technical output and standards for the team, ensuring engineering and operational excellence.
• Be actively involved in the definition and fulfillment of the team's strategy and bring a technical perspective into account.
• Provide useful and effective feedback, actively seeking to improve the entire team by regularly sharing knowledge and mentoring others.
• Step up, actively driving team topics and supporting other team members.
• Communicate with cross-functional stakeholders and leadership, targeted for the audience.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• Mastery of event-driven architectures, event-sourcing (Kafka preferred), and domain-driven design.
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes preferred) in a cloud environment (AWS preferred).
• Proficiency in different types of testing strategies (testing pyramid).
• Experience building a technical strategy and translating it into reality.
• A proven track record of enabling your teammates and amplifying their technical abilities by mentoring and coaching.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills.

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

Benefits

• Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity.
• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years.
• Make an impact on the environment and society with 2 (fully paid) Impact Days.
• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares.
• Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex!
• Invest in your development with an annual personal development budget.
• Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events.
• Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes.

About Us

Bring your best. Make your mark. We’re using technology to revolutionize the way HR operates so that we can transform the way millions of people experience work every day. We move fast, challenge the status quo, and support our people as they shape their careers.

With over 10,000 customers and a team of 2,000 in eight offices around the world, now is the perfect time to join! We believe in hiring driven people who want to make an impact. So bring your best, and let’s build the future of HR technology together.