Staff Backend Engineer

At Personio we are on the amazing journey to becoming the leading HR Platform in Europe!

Join our international Product & Engineering team and take an active role in shaping our engineering culture and the future of thousands of HR teams and organizations across Europe. At Personio you will have a direct impact on our product, our users, our organization, and our engineering practices.

As a Staff Engineer, you will be a bar raiser within the Personio Engineering organization and address some of the most difficult technical challenges. How you address each challenge is up to you - coding hands-on to prototype a solution, holding technical presentations, or conducting brainstorming sessions with engineers from other tribes to tackle a certain problem - it's up to you! This is a high impact role and you will be in the lead to create the long-term technical strategy for Personio Payroll.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact and large-scale technical projects across the Payroll tribe and department.
• Continuously raise the bar for engineering at Personio by mentoring engineers across the tribe and interviewing for new talent.
• Drive an engineering culture of quality and innovation across teams.
• Proactively seek out new areas/common problems to be tackled by your tribe.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and tech branding through blogging and representing Personio at conferences & tech events.

How we work

• We are transforming our Ruby/PHP application into Kotlin microservices
• We are a product company so our teams are organized in a mission-based cross-functional fashion. You will work with other Backend Engineers, Frontend Engineers, Designers, Product Managers & Engineering Managers within and outside of your tribe.
• We have a "you built it, you run it" attitude and CI/CD is our second nature - we use AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitLab to implement it!

What you need to succeed

• Outstanding communication skills to provide technical guidance and leadership.
• Ability to navigate technical debates & drive technical alignment.
• Passion to enable others & be a force multiplier.
• Exceptional experience designing, developing and operating business critical distributed systems at scale.
• Extensive experience in building a technical strategy and driving it across multiple teams.
• Proven experience in hiring, mentoring and developing engineering talent.
• Willingness to work hands-on as a developer with a focus on complex problems with high impact.
• Experience in open source contribution and tech branding activities.

Why Personio

• Market-proven, Europe's most valuable HR SaaS and fast-growing company ($250M funding acquired to date).
• As you are joining Personio at such an early stage, this shows us your trust and confidence in us. We would like you to profit from the success of the company, and therefore, we offer you a competitive compensation package (salary, benefits, and virtual shares)
• We have an impact - Your chance to play a decisive role in shaping a company in its rapid growth and to grow and learn from your tasks
• We enjoy becoming better day by day, that is why you will receive 1,500 € of development budget every year
• We have fun! Join us for regular team events, e.g. raft trips on the Isar, ski trips, visits to the Oktoberfest, and much more
• We offer language classes: English & Spanish
• We want happy employees - on top of your salary you will receive 68 € for food & public transport
• We like to be efficient - with us you will receive a Flexible Benefits Debit card in order to save taxes
• Parental benefit: In case your kids get ill, you may take up to 10 additional days off
• Corporate benefits - a range of employee discounts for different brands so you can save money while shopping (e.g. Adidas, LG, Bosch, Apple, Dia, etc.)
• Relocation support, 28 paid vacation days, and the opportunity to work from home on a regular basis. During Corona times you decide whether you prefer to work from home or come to our stylish and open office in the heart of Madrid (in alignment with local regulations).
• Personio is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race, or being a member of the traveler community.
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About us

Being a Personio means being part of something big. It means shaping the future of HR, the future of our company and at the very same time: your future. As one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS companies in Europe, we have raised $125 million in 'Series D' funding in January 2021, making Personio the most valuable HR technology company in Europe. We have a great product and a fantastic team that will double in 2021, from 500 to 1,000. We already have more than 3,000 customers with a market that is only waiting to be developed further, but we aim high: Our goal is to build the leading HR platform in Europe.

At Personio, we believe in hiring people like you - ambitious, forward thinkers who want to be more than just another employee. Will you be one of them?