Lead Frontend Engineer

Lead Frontend Engineer

How you'll make an impact at Personio

Join our Product & Technology team, where we drive our customers’ outcomes by designing, developing, and delivering innovative and high-quality products. 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. You will be acting as a multiplier, upleveling the technical expertise of your team or diving deep into the most complex technical challenges.

Role Responsibilities

• 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.
• Actively involved in the definition and fulfillment of the team's strategy and bringing 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.
• Participate in activities within the larger org, and perform actions that positively influence groups of people.

Role Requirements

• Over 7 years of software engineering experience in building and designing scalable applications with over 2 years of experience leading software engineering teams to solve complex problems.
• Mastery of front-end frameworks (React preferred), TypeScript, Critical Render Path (CRP), and CSS.
• Experience with micro-frontends, mono repositories, and client and server-side rendering (CSR, SSR).
• 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.
• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty and managing risk.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills (in English).

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.