Staff / Principal Engineer (Back End) - Analytics and Insights Team

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?

This position can be hybrid from either our London, Munich or Dublin offices.
At Personio, your work transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. Join our Product & Technology team, where we drive our customers’ outcomes by designing, developing and delivering innovative and high quality products. Be empowered to take ownership of your areas and make an impact on your team, our product, and our customers.
This role sits in our reporting and analytics function. You will take a lead role in building the latest version of a product that allows our customers to report and visualize their key employee/HR data.

Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Analytical Product Development: Design, develop and maintain a robust scalable analytical product to deliver a best in class experience for our customers.

• Data Modeling: Experience of building data models (logical domain models) observing data integrity and ensuring consistency. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements and design appropriate data representations.

• Performance Optimization: Identify and implement performance improvements in backend services to ensure a responsive experience is provided to the customers..

• Data Security and Governance: Implement and enforce data security measures and governance policies to protect sensitive information. Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations.

• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, data engineers and software engineers, to understand their functional needs and provide timely and accurate support.

• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for engineering processes and system architecture.

• Continuous Learning: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in engineering. Apply this knowledge to enhance and evolve our product offering and infrastructure.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• Proven experience as a Staff or Principal Engineer, with a track record of designing and implementing data intensive solutions.

• Strong experience working with event based architecture with strong proficiency with Kafka

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java or Kotlin.

• Strong experience with data warehousing technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift) and proficiency in SQL and JOOQ Query Generation.

• Experience of working in an event-driven architecture environment and cloud platforms (e.g, AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Familiarity with data governance and security best practices.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or collaboratively in a team.