Software Engineer, Personio
EO L5
+ Pre-IPO Equity
2+ days a week in office
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
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Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Pre-IPO Equity
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience as a backend engineer working on production systems
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments with changing priorities
- A product-minded approach to engineering and problem solving
- Ability to communicate clearly with engineers, product managers, and teams across the organisation
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar languages is helpful, but not essential
- Front-end experience (React) is a strong plus, but not a hard requirement
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our EO team at Personio
- This is a role that sits in a senior, high-trust engineering team working on core platform capabilities that power large parts of the Personio product
- EO sits at the intersection of platform and customer-facing product
- The systems built here are used by many other teams across Personio and directly impact how admins manage company structures, permissions, and employment-related data
- This role is primarily back-end focused, with a strong preference for engineers who are comfortable contributing to front-end work when needed (React)
- You don’t need to be a classic full-stack engineer, but you should be happy operating across the stack where it makes sense
- Over the next 6–12 months, the team will spend most of its time on new customer-facing feature development, with the remaining time focused on modernising and improving existing foundations
- Evolving core platform capabilities that power how organisations are represented and managed in Personio (data models, APIs, and workflows)
- Building secure, scalable backend services that support complex permissioning, delegation, and governance needs
- Improving foundations and system quality (performance, observability, robustness, tech-debt reduction, and operational excellence)
- Designing for change at scale, including backward-compatible migrations, versioning strategies, and safe rollout patterns
- Cross-team collaboration with multiple product and platform teams to ensure changes integrate cleanly and scale safely across the ecosystem
- Design, build, and evolve scalable backend systems that are used across Personio
- Work in ambiguous problem spaces, proactively identifying missing information and dependencies
- Balance product thinking with technical excellence, shaping solutions rather than just executing tickets
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design, while also managing a wide range of technical stakeholders
- Contribute to a senior-heavy team through code reviews, design discussions, and technical leadership
- Occasionally contribute to front-end work where it unblocks delivery or improves outcomes
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. Now, 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 it describes 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.
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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
- 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 Impact Days
- 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
- 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
Company values
- Exceed Customer Expectations: We anticipate, prioritise, 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
Maxvorstadt, Munich, Germany
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.
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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