Senior Engineering Manager L7 (d/f/m)

Personio's intelligent HR platform helps small and medium-sized organizations unlock the power of people by making complicated, time-consuming tasks simple and efficient. Our growing team of 1,800+ Personios across Europe and the US are building user-friendly products that delight our 14,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?
Senior Engineering Manager (L7), Time & Money
This role could be hybrid onsite from one of the following countries: Germany (Munich or Berlin), UK (London).
At Personio we are on the amazing journey of becoming the leading HR Platform in Europe!
Join our international agile Product & Engineering team and take an active role in shaping our engineering culture and the future of thousands of HR teams and organizations across Europe. At Personio you will have a direct impact on our product, our users, our organization, and our engineering practices.
The Time & Money product area is on a mission to empower organisations to compensate accurately, plan capacity effectively, and streamline day-to-day operations, by delivering a trusted product that makes managing time and salaries effortless.
We are building our product with strong foundations around configuring how your time tracking, absences and compensations are set up, in a compliant but seamless experience, flexible to adapt to different market needs as Personio continues expanding. On top of those foundations, we continue expanding our feature set over tracking time, requesting absences, managing compensations and approving those, with smart and complementary experiences to streamline those tasks.
Like all our domains we are a cross-functional group of engineers, designers, and product managers from many different nationalities and backgrounds, spread across different locations and we continue to grow in 2025. Join us and help shape the Time & Money journey for Personio.
Your Role:

• High-performing teams: build driven and high-performing teams by focusing on the development of our engineers
• Maximizing impact: collaborate closely with your partners in product and design to define and execute the most impactful initiatives
• Architecture: work closely with your team to provide feedback on architecture and approach. Enable your team to deliver scalable, maintainable, and secure products
• Engineering culture: build and influence a culture of ownership, autonomy, and inclusivity, not just within your team but the whole department.
• Technical excellence: leverage your technical skills to build engineering excellence within your team that promotes and implements engineering best practices

What You Will Get:

• Autonomy: you'll have the freedom to not just build a vision but to make it a reality
• Transparency: we're very transparent about the decisions we make and the motivations behind them
• Feedback: we firmly believe in learning from each other. We embrace the principle of giving and receiving feedback
• Opportunity: you have the opportunity to directly contribute to the department, and not just your team, by being involved in processes like recruiting, performance and development, onboarding and much more
• Diversity: the best workplaces are diverse and we celebrate that diversity in all aspects
• Flexibility: there is no one size fits all, so we do our best to understand and be flexible towards what makes you the most effective

What you need to succeed (Required)

• Over 5 years of hands-on people management experience. You've managed and grown multiple high-performing teams by focusing on the engineers and managing managers .
• Over 10 years of software engineering experience building and designing scalable distributed systems
• You have a proven track record building teams that focus on impact, technical excellence, and transparency
• You have an ability to lead and make decisions to push forward. You're comfortable owning even the most ambiguous problems and defining the road ahead
• You are data driven in your decision making
• You lead from the front and are ready to roll up your sleeves to help your team in any way.
• You have a passion for building reliable systems and have experience with microservices architecture.
• You have excellent communication skills. Within the team and across the organisation you can communicate transparently and effectively
• You have excellent English language skills