As a Lead Software Engineer (m/f/d) 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 tribes to tackle a certain problem - You know it best!!

This is a high impact role and you will be in the lead to create the long-term technical strategy for one of Personio’s main product components and represent the team in Personio’s Product & Engineering department.

Your main tasks and responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• Urge to contribute to tech branding through blogging and representing Personio at conferences & tech events.
  How we work:
• We are transforming our PHP application into Kotlin microservices
• We are a product company so our teams are organised in a mission-based cross-functional fashion. You will work with other Engineers, Designers, Product Managers &  Engineering Managers within and outside of your tribe.
• We have a “you built it, you run it” attitude and CI/CD is our second nature - we use AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitLab to implement it!
• You have excellent English language skills (level C1/C2), German is a plus.

WHY PERSONIO

• Market-proven, Europe’s most valuable HR SaaS and fast-growing company ($250M funding acquired to date)
• As you are joining Personio at such an early stage, this shows us your trust and confidence in us. We would like you to profit from the success of the company, and therefore, we offer you a competitive compensation package (salary, benefits, and virtual shares)
• Flexible working hours
• 26 paid vacation days plus Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve
• Parental benefit: In case your kids get ill, you may take up to 10 additional days off
• €1.500 Euros development budget for attending conferences, courses, buying books
• A permanent contract
• MacBook Pro and gadgets, including BOSE headsets with noise cancellation
• Parental benefit: In case your kids get ill, you may take up to 10 additional days off
• Private Health insurance for Personio employees, spouse and children
• Your chance to play a decisive role in shaping a company in its rapid growth and to grow and learn from your task

• You get your hands dirty when driving complex problems with high impact that set standards in style and quality
• Proven experience designing, developing and operating services of in the area of responsibility of your team
• Enthusiasm for building a technical strategy and translating it into reality
• Contribute to agile process optimisations
• You are driven by impact and you understand its effect for your team
• Very good communication skills to provide technical guidance and leadership
• Teaching, Coaching and empowering your colleagues is something that fulfils you
• Ability to effectively lead others through meetings, planning, and any processes which are needed to accomplish the goals of the team
• Passion to enable your teammates and amplify their technical abilities
• Excited to contribute to open source projects and tech branding activities
• You have excellent English language skills (level C1/C2), German is a plus.