The Role

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

The real story for us begins by impacting people on a global scale every day. By simplifying and automating thousands of processes across human resource management, payroll and recruiting, we are impacting more than 200.000 people. And we’ve only just begun. 

The Product Platform Tribe is on a mission to enable a better Personio by building out the platform strategy for Personio’s product. We are an enablement tribe and strive to create secure, reusable, scalable and extensible capabilities like data replication, data compliance, task management, access management and much more. The work that we do enables other teams at Personio to do more by doing less and creates more consistent user experiences for our customers.

Like all our tribes we are a cross-functional group of engineers, designers and product managers from many nationalities and backgrounds, spread across different locations, and we continue to grow in 2021. Join us and help shape the Product Platform Tribe journey for Personio!

As a Lead 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 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.

ROLE & 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

• 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 in the area of responsibility of your team
• Enthusiasm for building a technical strategy and translating it into reality
• Deep experience with paradigms like SOLID, microservices, event-driven architecture, and modern tech stacks around Docker, Kubernetes and AWS
• Contribute to agile process optimizations
• 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
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)