Staff Software Engineer, Personio
Full-stack
+ Pre-IPO equity
2-3 days a week in office
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
Open for applications
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ 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
- Full-Stack Expertise: Proficiency in both frontend and backend technologies. Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Angular) and backend development in Kotlin or Java preferred. Experience in other backend languages (Golang, Python, Scala) is also valued
- Experience: Prior experience as a Staff or Principal Engineer, with a proven track record in coding, system design, and operating distributed systems at scale
- Technical Leadership: Strong ability to influence technical decisions across teams and resolve conflicts efficiently
- Communication: Excellent communication skills with experience working cross-functionally to drive decision-making
- Engineering Mastery: Recognized as a technical leader who tackles complex problems in the most simple way and sets best practices
- Operational Excellence: Experience in setting strategic direction for operational efficiency and managing systems reliability
- Mentorship: Proven experience in mentoring engineers, facilitating knowledge sharing, and enabling team efficiency
- Organizational Influence: Strong influence on strategy, hiring processes, and driving positive change across the engineering function
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer in the Workforce Planning team, you will elevate the teams you work with by improving the quality of their technical solutions, operational excellence, and overall ability to deliver fast, impactful results
- All Staff Engineers at Personio are hands-on coders who thrive in high-output environments and want to make a real impact
- You’ll be working on a mix of improving existing features and building exciting new ones that our customers will love
- Depending on the stage of the product, you’ll either be coding or solving complex problems that pave the way for future development
- When you’re not coding, you’ll be focused on simplifying and enhancing the customer experience
- We're all about creating exceptional products and delivering outstanding customer satisfaction!
- About Workforce Planning Workforce Planning is Personio’s new product aimed at mid-market companies that need to conduct regular strategic headcount planning exercises
- Our goal is to help businesses make informed organizational design decisions and understand their skills and talent needs effectively
- As a Staff Engineer in this team, you’ll play a critical role in shaping this new product, driving both frontend and backend development, and ensuring seamless end-to-end functionality
- Lead Projects: Drive large-scale technical projects across teams, ensuring alignment with strategic goals
- Hands-On Development: Coding (this is a high code output environment), designing systems, and architecting full-stack solutions that are reliable and high-performing
- Team Leadership: Maximize team performance and collaboration, ensuring successful project delivery and technical alignment
- Engineering Excellence: Set and advocate for best practices, mentoring engineers and sharing knowledge to continuously raise engineering standards
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, and leadership to ensure technical decisions align with business objectives
- Talent Acquisition: Participate in interviewing and hiring, contributing to the growth and evolution of the engineering team
- Strategic Impact: Simplify complex objectives for efficient execution, representing your team in strategic discussions
- Operational Improvements: Lead efforts to enhance engineering culture, tools, and operational efficiency, fostering continuous improvement
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.
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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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