Staff Software Engineer, Personio
Money Domain
Offers pre-IPO equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
Posted today
Intelligent HR platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Posted today
Offers pre-IPO equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organisations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer who combines strong technical depth with a strong product mindset
- Extensive experience designing and building large-scale backend systems
- Strong experience working in product-driven engineering environments
- A track record of driving technical strategy and architectural improvements
- Experience working with complex domain models and high-accuracy data systems
- The ability to influence engineering direction across teams
- Strong hands-on coding ability alongside technical leadership
Desirable
- Experience working on financial, payroll, or compensation systems
- Experience designing systems where data correctness and accuracy are critical
- Experience working in large SaaS platforms
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will join the Pay Connect group, working within the Money domain. This domain is responsible for how compensation is represented, managed, and processed across Personio
- Everything from base salary and hourly pay to bonuses, equity, and benefits flows through this part of the platform. The systems built in this area power both Personio’s compensation management features and the data that ultimately feeds into payroll
- This role will play a key part in evolving how compensation is modeled, scaled, and integrated across the platform as Personio continues to expand into global payroll and new compensation models
- Lead technical design and architecture within the Money domain
- Build and evolve systems that manage compensation data across Personio
- Develop capabilities supporting different compensation types such as salary, bonuses, benefits, and equity
- Contribute to features within Personio’s Compensation Management product
- Collaborate closely with product teams to translate complex compensation requirements into scalable systems
- Improve data correctness, reliability, and performance across critical payroll inputs
- Act as a technical multiplier, helping engineers across the team deliver high-quality systems
- Contribute hands-on to the codebase, spending roughly 50% of your time coding
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
Dublin, Ireland
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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.
Stephan Micklitz
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Previously Senior Director of Engineering at Google, they also spent two years in a senior leadership role at Celonis, and later consulted for Revel8.
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 a Business Development Team Lead.
Victoria joined Personio in 2017 as an Account Executive and has since held a number of roles. Since 2025, they have served as the Director of Sales SMB Germany.
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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 2025 initiatives, we have continued these efforts and introduced additional programs, maintaining our commitment to long-term progress as we move through 2026 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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