Principal Engineer, Personio
Frontend
+ pre-IPO equity
2-3 days a week in office
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
Job no longer available
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ pre-IPO equity
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organizations unlock the power of people.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience building and designing scalable and performant frontend systems. You understand what’s required to bring a complex product to fruition, from the needs of the individual contributors to the overall architecture and design patterns
- Proven track record of senior technical leadership, mentoring engineers (junior through staff), and hiring
- You manage stakeholders at multiple levels, from ICs to Senior Management, and can align business requirements with technical roadmaps
- You have mastery working with TypeScript codebases (NodeJS services, React frontends) and are unafraid to dig into the weeds
- Bonus points for experience with any of Nx, GraphQL, Kotlin microservices, AWS, Sentry, Datadog, Kafka, and full stack development
- Experience playing both the architect and code machine archetypes. This role isn’t just meetings and documents but also getting hands-on and directly working with frontend ICs
- Reducing technical complexity and finding elegant solutions between competing priorities and technical debt is your bread and butter. You have experience handling negotiations between team boundaries and developing solutions where others couldn’t
- You see change as an opportunity to develop the business and leverage strategy and past experiences to deal with ambiguity and complexity
- You create a motivating and collaborative environment where your team sets and achieves challenging developmental and business goals
- 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, neither are we. Let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other
What the job involves
- Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry
- Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference
- As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies
- In this role as a Principal Frontend Engineer, you will hold a uniquely impactful position working across the Personio website
- This role is not attached to any one product area but is ultimately responsible for the overall delivery of features, improvement of performance, and refinement of craft for the entirety of the web frontend
- You will have the opportunity to go both deep and broad, focusing on the most challenging and important priorities that directly benefit our users
- You will have one of the most impactful engineering roles at the company, being the standard bearer for frontend excellence and directly driving impactful initiatives for our users
- Be the architect: Develop, guide, and own an ambitious strategy for our React Monorepo that balances new functionality and long-term reliability
- Mentorship & influence: Directly coach Lead and Staff engineers and be a technical role model for frontend engineers across the company
- Ship Impact: Be ready to dig into the code wherever is needed to unblock and deliver progress
- Launches and Landings: You will hold the craft bar, finding solutions to support a high velocity without sacrificing great quality user experience
- Bridge leadership and developers: You will work across team boundaries and directly with senior leadership (including VPs and the CTO), bringing a solution-oriented mindset to objectives and challenges across the product
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Personio was set up to automate and simplify HR tasks with a single software. This means reducing admin and accelerating efficiency with data and processes seamlessly integrating with each other.
What sets Personio apart from its competitors is the fact that its solution covers all the core HR processes that are key to every company’s success and can be performed in one place. This gives HR professionals the time and energy to focus on more strategic topics like talent development and employer branding. Personio has over 15,000 customers, among which are 1.5 million employees using its software.
With substantial funding from multiple investors, Personio is focused on growing the tools it offers as well as expanding into what they describe as “people workflow automation". With 1.7 million small and medium-sized businesses still stuck in the spreadsheet era, Personio will deliver even more value to businesses in years to come.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
4 people
Aleena, Software Engineer
Our mission
Empower people with AIInsights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$200m
Series E
Oct 2021
$270m
Series E
Total funding: $724.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation package that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
- We love to celebrate our success and spend time together at Personio with regular company and team events like local summer sessions and local year-end celebrations.
- Choose between multiple sustainable transportation options, like a subsidised bike lease or monthly transit ticket
- Invest in your retirement via the Personio Pension Scheme, including a Personio contribution
- 1 Impact Day 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
- We follow an office-led, remote friendly working model, including opportunities to work from home and international locations. Many of our teams have designated days for gathering in the office to enhance collaboration and foster a sense of community.
- Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities
Company values
- Exceed Customer Expectations - We anticipate, prioritize, and solve for the needs of our customers
- Deliver Exceptional Results - We dream big and move with urgency to make great things happen
- Elevate One Another - We work together as trusted partners to amplify our collective impact
- Care to Challenge - We care personally and challenge directly to unlock our full potential
- Ignite Positive Momentum - We embrace the challenge with a positive mindset and celebrate our wins together
Company HQ
Garment District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Hanno Renner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Also co-founded Feedbackme in 2015 and is a member of the "Advisory Board of the Young Digital Economy".
Jonas Rieke
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously worked in Business Development at komoot and Hendrick & Schwartz. They also worked in Investment Management at Project A Ventures.
Maria Angelidou-Smith
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Named to Business Insider’s 100 People Transforming Business in 2020.
Lenke Taylor
(Chief People Officer)Leading people-centered vision and teams to build global companies.
Philip Lacor
(Chief Revenue Officer)Previously the CRO at Airbase and Envoy. They also spent 4 years at Dropbox in various VP roles. Prior to that, they spent nearly 6 years at Vodafone as a Director and MD of Enterprise Business Units.
Birgit Haderer
(Chief Financial Officer)20+ years of experience in developing and executing strategies in various industries in both Germany and the USA, with a strong technology focus.
Naman Khan
(Chief Marketing Officer)Data driven, user focused and able to grow product categories across both product lead & sales lead GTM models.
People progressing
Alexander joined Personio in 2020 as a Working Student in Sales Operations, since then, they have worked their way up and now serve as an Account Executive.
Victoria joined Personio in 2017 as an Account Executive and has since held a number of roles. Since 2024, they have served as the Head of Payroll Sales.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Personio
- Our Count Me In DEI survey is designed to measure our progress towards our DEI goals and identify gaps and improvement areas to inform our planning of future initiatives.
- Our Diversity Committee ensures all communities have an equal voice in everything we do and includes representation from our six Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). We build inclusion through monthly educational sessions, empowerment programs, and celebrations that promote awareness and allyship.
- Supporting and uplifting women in tech is one of the most impactful ways to drive positive change. Building on our 2023 initiatives, we have continued these efforts and introduced additional programs, maintaining our commitment to long-term progress as we move through 2024 and beyond.
- To find out more about Personio’s commitment to diversity and inclusion to ensure we are a company where everyone can embrace their uniqueness, visit our page https://www.personio.com/about-personio/diversity/
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