Lead Backend Engineer - All Personio Locations
This position is office-based, hybrid working policy in our European offices - Munich, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Dublin, and London.
Note: 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, and in the meantime, you can check out our career page to find out more.Role Responsibilities: What you'll do- Taking responsibility for 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
- Following and promoting best practices to solve higher complexity challenges by building reliable, performant and elegant solutions that are easy to work with
- Owning 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
- Giving useful and effective feedback, actively seeking to improve the entire team by regularly sharing knowledge and mentoring others
- Stepping up, actively driving team topics and supporting other team members
- Communicating with cross-functional stakeholders and leadership, targeted for the audience
- 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
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.Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:
- 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 (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
- Make an impact on the environment and society with 2 (fully paid) Impact Days – one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative
- 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! Most teams offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework
- Invest in your development with an annual personal development budget to use on professional memberships, external certifications, conferences, and more
- Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events like All Company Culture Week and local year-end celebrations
- Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes