Lead Full Stack Engineer - Automations
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?
The Role: Lead Fullstack Engineer - Automations
We’re looking for a Lead Fullstack Engineer to join one of several teams within the Workflow Automations product area. The Automations product enables mid-sized and large businesses to operate at scale. Our product teams enable employees to set up and automate complex business processes via intuitive experiences. We build and operate platforms and services at scale that enable customers to get their HR work completed efficiently. We also operate the Document Managment platform, one of the most used features within Personio.
What You'll Do:
Develop High-Impact Solutions – Design and build scalable, efficient backend/frontend systems using Kotlin on the backend and React on the frontend.
Full-Stack Contributions – The role is sometimes more frontend and sometimes more backend-heavy so you will regularly work between these areas.
Cross-Team Collaboration – Partner with frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and other teams to align on priorities and deliver end-to-end solutions.
Improve System Performance – Optimize API performance, database queries, and reduce frontend latency for high-traffic web solutions.
Build Capacity. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, ensuring everyone on the team continues to grow.
Operational Leadership. Take ownership of on-call responsibilities, ensuring operational excellence across services. Proactively enhance engineering processes and incident management.
What We’re Looking For:
Product Engineering sensibilities. You enjoy solving customer problems through your work. This means you provide proactive feedback to your EM/PM, make fixes without being asked to do so, and keep the customer in mind as you build products.
Strong fullstack feature development abilities. You enjoy jumping between the frontend and the backend and can take features from product spec to completion. You do whatever it takes to get there and you’re not afraid to tackle new challenges.
Experience at scale with the ability to stay scrappy. You have worked on high-traffic web applications and large codebases. Nevertheless, you remain scrappy in order to maximize velocity. Personio is still a young and hungry startup, and you navigate this in a balanced manner.
Strong design/architecture skills. You have a solid understanding of API design, architecture, and distributed systems.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills. Clear, transparent and regular communication is essential for the team and its stakeholders.
Collaboration with leadership. You are a strong partner for engineering and product leadership. You are comfortable providing product feedback to product managers and can represent the zeitgeist of the team to your engineering manager. You highlight problems and provide solutions.
If you do not have all the qualifications for this role, we still encourage you to apply. We believe in creating an environment where you can learn and grow as an engineer. With a positive and high accountability attitude, we’re confident you’ll fit in well.
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
Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day
Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities
We follow an office-led, remote-friendly approach, including opportunities to work from home and international locations.
We enjoy gathering for meals, cultural initiatives, and events like local Summer Sessions and year-end celebrations. There are also healthy snacks, drinks, and a weekly catered lunch.