Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our growing team of 1,800+ Personios across Europe and the US are building user-friendly products that delight our 14,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?
Lead Engineer - Org Management (Munich) d/f/m
About Personio
At Personio, we're on a mission to transform HR technology, making it seamless and scalable for businesses across Europe. As one of the fastest-growing tech companies, we're building an all-in-one HR platform that empowers organizations to put their people first.
The Role: Lead Engineer - Org Management
We're looking for a Lead Engineer to join our Org Management team, based in Munich. This team is responsible for managing company structures, legal entities, and customer information storage systems. As a Lead Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of designing and delivering high-quality solutions that enable Personio to scale efficiently.
About the Org Management Team
The Organization Management team enables customers to easily, reliably, and accurately map and plan their fundamental organizational structures in Personio. These structures are critical in delivering value across apps and surfaces, making the team a key platform provider that empowers other teams to seamlessly build using our services and data.
This year, the team is tackling two major challenges:
- Saving HR admins valuable time by intelligently inferring employee configurations based on their assigned country, office, department, etc. This effort is central to making Personio "the intelligent HR system" and requires designing a flexible and scalable architecture.
- Enhancing support for large customers by enabling admin roles scoped to specific organizational entities. This means, for example, granting an admin in the Spanish subsidiary permissions for Spain but standard access elsewhere. This initiative involves deep collaboration across multiple partner teams.
What You'll Do:
- Lead Technical Excellence - Deliver large, high-quality projects that enhance our platform and customer experience.
- Hands-On Development - Write and review code, design systems, and architect high-performance solutions using Java/Kotlin (JVM stack), AWS, Kafka, and event-driven architectures.
- Estimation, Scoping, and Planning - Define the team's strategy and roadmap in collaboration with product managers and other engineering teams.
- Solve Complex Technical Challenges - Address issues related to scalability, data integrity, and security while optimizing performance.
- Mentoring and Coaching - Guide engineers, promote best practices, and foster a high-performance team culture.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work with product managers, designers, and other teams to align engineering efforts with business goals.
- Operational Leadership - Improve monitoring, observability, and incident response processes to enhance system reliability.
What We're Looking For:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on backend development.
- Expertise in Java/Kotlin (JVM stack) and AWS.
- Experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures is highly desirable.
- A proactive problem solver with the ability to simplify complex challenges.
- Passion for technical excellence, performance optimization, and operational reliability.
- Strong leadership and mentorship abilities, with excellent communication skills.
Why Join Personio?
- Competitive compensation package including salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity.
- 28 days of paid vacation (+ extra days after 2 and 4 years).
- 2 fully paid Impact Days per year for social initiatives.
- Generous parental leave, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities.
- Flexible hybrid work model (50% remote, 50% in-office).
- Engaging team culture with regular events and company-wide initiatives.
Interview Process:
- HR Call with Stephen to assess team fit (30 mins)
- Hiring Manager screen with Engineering Leader (45 min)
- Live coding (60 mins)
- System Design (60 mins)
- Culture Interview with cross-functional team members. (30 mins)
- Department Interview with department lead (30 mins)
Ready to make an impact? Join us in shaping the future of HR tech!
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What the Team is Saying
What We Do
We believe small and medium-sized organizations are the backbone of global economies, and their most valuable asset is the people they employ. But many of their HR teams are held back by complicated, time-consuming processes and admin. We’re changing that with our all-in-one HR solution that transforms the way millions of people experience work every day.
At the core of our people-focused product are the individuals who craft it: We proudly identify as Personios. As we build on our success as Europe’s leading HR platform for SMEs, we are looking for the brightest minds to bring their own innovative ideas to the table. When you join our team of 1800+ across Europe and the US, you’ll have an impact from day one – for our 15,000 customers and the 1.5 million employees we serve.
Why Work With Us
Personio is one of the most valuable tech startups in Europe, but we're just getting started with revolutionizing HR for the 1.7 million small and medium-sized organizations still stuck in the spreadsheet era. Now we need your experience scaling tech companies to take us to the next level.
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