Lead Backend Software Engineer - Germany

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 is a hybrid position with time split between office-based and remote working from Germany (Berlin or Munich).
At Personio, we value the flexibility that our hybrid set-up offers, but equally value in-person time to drive connection, community and collaboration.
The Role: How you'll make an impact at Personio
At Personio, your work transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. Join our Product & Technology team, where we drive customer outcomes by designing, developing, and delivering innovative, high-quality products. Be empowered to take ownership of your areas and make a real impact on your team, our product, and our customers.
As a Senior Engineer, you will elevate the teams you work with by improving the quality of their technical solutions, operational excellence, and overall ability to deliver fast, impactful results. All Senior Engineers at Personio are hands-on coders who thrive in high-output environments and want to make a real impact. You'll be working on a mix of improving existing features and building exciting new ones that our customers will love. Depending on the stage of the product, you'll either be coding or solving complex problems that pave the way for future development. When you're not coding, you'll be focused on simplifying and enhancing the customer experience. We're all about creating exceptional products and delivering outstanding customer satisfaction!
Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Build Reliable and Performance Solutions: Lead the delivery of large, high-quality projects by collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring technical excellence and setting standards for the team. Spending time coding hands-on while also designing systems and architecture.
• Hands-On Development: Coding (this is a high code output environment), designing systems, and architecting solutions that are reliable and high-performing.
• Estimating, Scoping, and Planning: Own the estimation, scoping, and planning of projects, defining the team's strategy and roadmap. Work closely with product management, leadership, and engineering teams to deliver impactful workstreams.
• Solve Complex Technical Challenges: Address and resolve complex technical problems, promoting best practices to ensure engineering and operational excellence. Simplify architecture, manage technical debt, and enforce best practices in security and testing.
• Mentoring and Coaching: Actively mentor and coach engineers, sharing knowledge and driving team topics. Promote a culture of support and collaboration to increase team productivity and growth.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships with cross-functional teams, including product management and leadership, to drive the success of engineering initiatives. Participate in interviewing and hiring to contribute to the growth and success of the team.
• Operational Leadership: Ensure operational excellence across the product lifecycle, driving incident management and continuous improvement. Enhance monitoring, observability, and team productivity.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed
Technical Expertise: Proficiency in Kotlin or Java preferred, with experience in other backend languages (Golang, Python, Scala) also valued.
Operational Excellence: Skilled in implementing various testing strategies, including the testing pyramid, and demonstrated experience in maintaining high availability requirements and performance. Ensuring technical strategies are effectively translated into reality. Demonstrated experience in managing operational quality and incident response, with a focus on continuous improvement.
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 (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
• Make an impact on the environment and society with 2 (fully paid) Impact Days - one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative
• Receive generous family leave, child support, and mental health support
• Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex! Most teams offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework
• Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events like All Company Culture Week and local year-end celebrations
• Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes