Backend Engineer (m/f/d) at Personio (Munich, Germany)

THE ROLE

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

Join our international agile Product & Engineering team and take an active role in shaping our engineering culture and the future of thousands of HR teams and organizations across Europe. At Personio you will have a direct impact on our product, our users, our organization, and our engineering practices.

You will work in an effective, autonomous feature-based team, where you will get to play out your dev skills in a high-impact driven environment. You will be responsible for the full cycle of feature development in your team ("You build it, you run it"), and take part in architecting the backend of our complex, mission-critical HR Operating System.

We are building and scaling a strong engineering organisation facing challenges like moving from a monolithic to a distributed event-driven architecture, scaling the application, re-platforming and working on an automatic, scalable and country agnostic payroll solution.

Your tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Writing efficient, performant and extensible code using the right tools and patterns to implement the functionalities that add value to our customers


• Identifying, documenting, and communicating technical improvements within your area of responsibility in the team


• Participating in cross-team engineering initiatives as an individual contributor


• Helping with the coaching and onboarding of junior members of the team

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

• 3-4 years of software development experience, from design to deployment and monitoring in production, using Kotlin, Go, PHP, Ruby or other programming languages


• Strong OO design skills (SOLID 100%)


• Knowledge with automated testing and of when and what to test


• Experience in CI/CD, pull/merge request and code reviews


• Knowledge of a web framework (preferred Spring Boot or similar)


• Experience with event-driven architectures, domain-driven design, resilience patterns and microservices


• Experience with containerization and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes preferred) in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)


• Proactive problem solver. You leave code and processes in better shape than when you first encountered them


• Teamplayer: you are passionate about working with talented teammates. Your heart beats for receiving and giving feedback, to grow both personally and as an engineer


• Interest and passion to learn and experiment with new technologies and follow the best practices in software development for agile environments


• Strong written and spoken English skills

WHY PERSONIO

• As you are joining Personio at such an early stage, this shows us your trust and confidence in us. We would like you to benefit from the success of the company, and therefore, we offer you a competitive compensation package (salary, benefits and virtual shares).


• An inclusive, equal opportunity & multicultural work environment.


• 1,500 Euro annual development budget for attending conferences or courses, buying books, getting a coach etc.


• A high-impact work environment and short decision-making processes.


• Fun team & company events.


• Choose between three mobility options: Unu electric scooter as "company car", a JobRad® or an additional payment for a yearly public transportation ticket.


• Subsidised Qualitrain membership: For 25 euros per month you can train in 90 fitness and yoga studios, swimming pools and many other sports facilities in Munich.


• Find your best way to work with office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex! We offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework to suit your needs.


• #SocialResponsibility: We are grateful for our privileges and take action to have a positive impact on the environment and society. Therefore, you will have two extra days to have #Impact: one individual and one supporting a company-wide project!