The Role

At Personio we are on the amazing journey of becoming the leading HR Platform in Europe!

The Core HR (Human Resources) Domain is on a mission to empower organizations for employee self service and remarkable employee management, integrated across domains.

We are building our product around the employee lifecycle events, getting hired, getting promotions, getting married, leaving the company and following the direct implications of these lifecycle events - for employees, managers and HR managers. 

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 in several teams. We’ll continue to grow in 2022 and beyond. Join us and help shape Personio’s journey as part of our Core HR Domain.

As a Lead Software Engineer you will be a bar raiser in a mission-based team within the Personio Engineering organization and take care of team productivity, technical alignment and technical growth. In this role, you will act as a multiplier for your team. You know how to address each challenge - coding hands-on to prototype a solution, holding technical presentations or conducting  brainstorming sessions with engineers from other domains and teams to tackle a certain problem - You know it best!
 

Specific tasks of a Lead Engineer at Personio:

• Increasing performance and productivity of your team by raising ideas how to  improve team internal processes and collaboration
• Mentoring engineers in your team and fostering the technical growth of your teammates with/by pair programming, knowledge sharing and coaching
• Be the technical go-to person in your team for technical and non-technical topics and stakeholders
• Drive an engineering culture of quality, good development principles and innovation from inside your team
• Driving cross-department engineering initiatives 
• Partnering up with the Engineering Manager on the technical growth of the team
• Strategic technical involvement on a team level in the OKR process, hiring strategy and team setup
• Managing incident processes and team related follow-ups to ensure high product reliability, stability and security
• Participate in technical interviews 
• Urge to contribute to tech branding through blogging and representing Personio at conferences & tech events
   

• Over 7 years of software engineering experience building and designing scalable applications using Java or Kotlin 
• Over 2 years of experience as a “Senior+” software engineer, with a proven track record of leading software engineering teams to tackle complex problems and coordinating implementation of features with stakeholders.
• Experience working within a distributed architecture and working with microservices using Spring Boot
• Experience of mentoring and coaching junior and mid-level engineers 
• Experience of driving engineering initiatives and improvements 
• Track record of working in an agile setup using continuous deployment and delivery
• Experience with event driven architectures, domain driven design and eventual consistency
• Knowledge about resilience patterns
• Experience of messaging systems, ideally Kafka 
• Experience with containerisation and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes preferred) in a cloud environment (AWS preferred) 
• Strong written and spoken English (level C1 on the CEFR scale)