Lead Platform Engineer, Personio
Kotlin Developer Experience
$195-218k
+ Pre-IPO equity
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
$195-218k
+ Pre-IPO equity
3+ 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 experienced Software Engineers to join our Product & Technology department, who will play an active role in shaping our engineering culture and the future of thousands of HR teams and organizations across Europe
- Over 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
- You have leadership experience having previously acted as a mentor or role model to other engineers. 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 have a strong expertise with working with Kotlin and/or Java codebases (Spring Boot services). In particular you’re comfortable with the intricacies of their build ecosystems (build tools, tasks, runners, etc.)
- You excel at designing, building, documenting and distributing robust and delightful solutions in the form of Libraries, CLI tools, scripts & plugins for developers
- You’re opinionated on development processes and best practices (merge requests, approvals, trunk-based vs branch-based development, etc), and are eager to optimize and automate them
- You want to work with a very technical team on developer-facing tools and services, and you understand the value of writing great technical documentation and useful tutorials
- You are data driven and are passionate about using metrics to define and evaluate your engineering design decisions
- You have an 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. 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 mistakes and bring your good vibes!
What the job involves
- Our Kotlin Developer Experience (Kodex) team sits within our Developer Experience (DX) tribe. Collectively within DX we enable other engineers to build, test and deploy code quickly, easily and reliably on their own
- We focus on maximizing engineering efficiency, by developing and distributing robust and practical development tools, building scalable DevOps processes, and advocating for software development best practices
- As a member of the KoDeX team your focus will be to build tooling solutions which reduce the complexity and risk of developing, deploying and releasing software
- The Kodex Platform Engineer is a high-impact, cross-functional role at the heart of our engineering organization. The team supports our internal engineering teams throughout the complete development lifecycle of Personio, using a unique mix of skill sets to enable our product engineers to take advantage of everything the platform provides while also minimizing the cognitive load required to do so
- You will research, engineer and experiment with new ways to improve developer satisfaction and increase developer velocity by providing efficient, effective tooling and questioning the status quo
- Your scope will encompass the entire process of building , testing, deploying, releasing, and monitoring front-end components across all environments, from the local machine straight through to our production clusters
- You will foster relationships and partner with product teams to support them through platform specific migrations. You’ll learn from and understand the challenges they face so that you can translate them into result-oriented solutions that help improve their experience of building software at Personio
- You will act as a technical leader to your teammates and help improve the team’s engineering culture, defining best practices on how we manage technical debt, refactoring, design patterns and coding principles, code review and pair programming
- You will mentor and coach other engineers to grow into the next generation of technical leaders
- 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 shipping to learn
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
- 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
- Find your best way to work with our office-led, and remote-friendly PersonioFlex!
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
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.
Alexander Grant
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Previously the Senior Director of Product Management at Hootsuite, they also have prior experience as Director of Operations at a B2B startup.
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.
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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