The Role

At Personio, your work transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. Join our Product & Technology team that drives our customer's 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. Personio is the all-in-one HR solution for small and medium-sized enterprises. With offices in New York, Munich, Madrid, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Berlin, Personio is on a mission to make people processes as transparent and efficient as possible, so HR can focus on what matters most - people and strategy. 

Our Product Platform domain is fulfilling this purpose by building out the platform strategy for Personio’s product. We are a rapidly growing, enablement-focused domain that strives to create secure, reusable, and extensible systems that accelerate the ability of our internal teams to create customer value, at scale. 

Furthermore, Product Platform plays a pivotal role in delivering the tooling, components, templates and standards that establish the foundations of a common Personio design platform; ultimately providing our customers with a consistent, accessible and delightful experience.

To support our mission, we are looking for a Lead Software Engineer with expertise in data capture, event-driven architecture and tooling, effective data governance, as well as continuously enhancing system reliability and operational excellence. You’ll partner with product and engineering peers across the organization to build a reliable, resilient, scalable and future-proof Personio data platform.

Role & Responsibilities:

• You will research, engineer and experiment with new ways to improve the developer experience and DevOps practices to provide product teams with the capability to deploy on demand while also limiting any risk to the stability of production.
• Your scope will include everything from how software components are built, tested, deployed, released and monitored across all environments, from the local machine straight through to our production clusters.
• You will foster relationships and work closely with product teams to support them through platform specific migrations. Learn from and understand the challenges they face so that you can translate them into result-oriented solutions that help improve the reliability of the platform. 
• You will also spend time teaching engineers (especially new joiners) how to use our tools, whether by giving internal talks, organizing internal onboarding workshops or writing documentation and tutorials.
• You will conceptualize and own technical solutions end-to-end. Organizing effective groups of engineers to brainstorm, design and deliver impactful work.
• You will help your team manage technical debt, refactor existing solutions, and introduce and improve the team’s approach to principles and processes such as system architecture, design patterns, coding principles and code review.
• You will use your existing experience to help drive the platform forward with new ideas and strategies that help maintain the quality, reliability, security, performance and cost effectiveness of the product and platform.
• You will partner with your engineering manager, keeping them up to date and informed with technical details across multiple projects. Helping to ensure the team is delivering results in an iterative fashion that is driven by impact and promotes a culture of experimentation and learning.

What you need to succeed

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and designing scalable applications, tools or distributed systems. You understand the needs of software engineers working in product teams, you’ve been in their shoes, and can empathize with them. You want to help your fellow engineers to achieve maximum efficiency.
• Proficiency in Kafka operations or building platform tools that utilize Kafka.
• Experience in both constructing and managing a schema registry, contributing to effective data governance.
• Preferably experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles, enhancing our commitment to system reliability and operational excellence.
• Preferably hands-on experience with various database technologies, Debezium and data capture.
• You have a deep understanding and an interest for DevOps tools and technologies such as: Kubernetes, AWS (CDK, ECS, Fargate etc.), Gitlab, DataDog, Sentry, Projen, Backstage, Docker and in particular progress delivery automation (CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, canary deployments, service mesh).
• You’re comfortable designing, building, documenting and distributing robust and delightful solutions in the form of services, CLI tools, scripts & plugins for developers.
• You’re interested in development processes and practices (merge requests, approvals, trunk-based vs branch-based development, etc), and are eager to optimize and automate them.
• Experience acting as a mentor or role model to other engineers is a plus. Ideally leading pair and mob programming sessions, as well as setting up and running technical brainstorming and solution design sessions.
• You strike a balance between a strategic and tactical mindset. You are capable of working with your engineering manager to translate the platform's strategic vision into tactical, achievable objectives for the team.
• You want to work with a very technical team on developer-facing tools and services, and you like writing great technical documentation and useful tutorials.
• You are data-driven and are passionate about using metrics to define your engineering design decisions as well as measuring the impact of your work.
• You have excellent written and spoken English (level C1/C2 on the CEFR scale)
• We are experiencing rapid growth and are “building our plane while flying it” so bring your agile mindset to the table.
• You embrace feedback - no one is perfect, and neither are we. So let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other.
• Finally, you have a good sense of humor. Have fun with us, learn with us from our mistakes and bring your good vibes!

What motivation and mindset you should bring:

• Driven by impact - We work hard and take action to achieve great results for our customers and Personio
• Speed of execution - We are moving fast and are relying on you to elevate the team delivery
• Embrace feedback - no one is perfect, and neither are we. So let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other
• Tech branding - tell others about the things you like, either through blogging or tech events
• Humor - have fun, learn and bring your good vibes

Why Personio

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, there are a variety of additional benefits that make Personio a great place to work! Our Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k)
• Green Transportation (For NYC based employees) 
• Home office setup allowance
• Gym allowance 
• 20 days of paid vacation, plus another additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
• 2 Impact Days you can use to have an impact on the environment and society –  one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative! #SocialResponsibility
• Annual personal development budget for you to invest in your development via professional memberships, external certifications, conferences, and more
• Receive family leave, child support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares

$185,000/year to $205,000/year + equity + benefitsPlease note the national salary range listed in the job posting reflects the new hire salary range across levels and U.S. locations that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be commensurate with the candidate’s final level and final location. Also, this range represents base salary only and does not include equity, or benefits, if applicable.Please note that the information provided in this job posting is for general informational purposes only. The job posting is provided 'as is' without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Personio makes no representations or warranties in relation to the accuracy, completeness, or suitability of the information contained in this job posting. By applying to this position, applicants acknowledge that they have read and understood this disclaimer and that Personio shall not be held liable for any reliance on the information contained herein.Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We #EmbraceUniqueness 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.