Senior Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

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?

The Role

Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry. Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference. As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies.

The Data Platform’s mission is to ensure that the right data is available in the right place at the right time.  We build the systems, software, frameworks, tooling, and APIs that accelerate the ability of our internal teams to create customer value at scale.

We are looking for a Software Engineer who will bring strong technical leadership and expertise in building robust and reliable software data platforms.  As a technical leader, you will be responsible for driving, hands-on coding, upleveling junior engineers, and building a culture of operational excellence.

Role Responsibilities

What you’ll do:

• You will conceptualize and own technical solutions end-to-end. Organizing effective groups of engineers to brainstorm, design and deliver impactful work.

• You will invest in experimenting and building platform solutions that improve the developer experience for all product teams.

• Your scope will include everything from how software components are built, tested, deployed, released and monitored across all environments, from the local machine straight through to our production clusters.

• You will foster relationships and work closely with product teams to support them through platform specific migrations. Learn from and understand the challenges they face so that you can translate them into result-oriented solutions that help improve the reliability of the platform.

• You will also ensure engineers across the company can use our tools and technologies effectively.

• You will help your team manage technical debt, refactor existing solutions, and introduce and improve the team's approach to principles and processes such as system architecture, design patterns, coding principles and code review.

• 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.

How you’ll do it:

• Influencing and strengthening team culture while identifying areas for improvement.

• Demonstrate technical excellence through hands-on involvement in projects and continuous learning.

• Maintain open and clear communication and foster a collaborative work environment with team members, stakeholders, and management.

• Ensure that technical documentation is comprehensive and up-to-date.

• Uphold high coding standards and participate in code reviews.

• Continuously drive innovation and improvements.

• Give internal talks, organize internal onboarding workshops,  write documentation and tutorials.

What you need to succeed

• 10+ years of software engineering experience delivering 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 experience designing, building, documenting, and distributing robust and delightful platform solutions end to end. Systems you build are consistently of high quality, reliability, and operational excellence.

• Hands-on experience with multiple data storage technologies and experience defining data storage and patterns of access to meet functional and operational needs.

• Experience in prototyping, building, deploying, and operating data streaming applications with technology like Kafka Streams.

• Experience acting as a mentor or role model to other engineers

• 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, but are just as comfortable as a hands-on contributor to the codebase.

   

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.
Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• 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

• Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day

• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities

• We follow an office-led, remote friendly approach, including opportunities to work from home and international locations. 

• We enjoy gathering for meals, cultural initiatives, and events like local Summer Sessions and year-end celebrations. There's also healthy snacks, drinks, and a weekly catered lunch.