This position can be hybrid from either our London, Munich or Dublin offices.
At Personio, your work transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. Join our Product & Technology team, where we drive our customers' outcomes by designing, developing and delivering innovative and high quality products. Be empowered to take ownership of your areas and make an impact on your team, our product, and our customers.
This role sits in our reporting and analytics function. You will take a lead role in building the latest version of a product that allows our customers to report and visualize their key employee/HR data.
Role Responsibilities: What you'll do
- Analytical Product Development: Design, develop and maintain a robust scalable analytical product to deliver a best in class experience for our customers.
- Data Modeling: Experience of building data models (logical domain models) observing data integrity and ensuring consistency. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements and design appropriate data representations.
- Performance Optimization: Identify and implement performance improvements in backend services to ensure a responsive experience is provided to the customers..
- Data Security and Governance: Implement and enforce data security measures and governance policies to protect sensitive information. Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, data engineers and software engineers, to understand their functional needs and provide timely and accurate support.
- Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for engineering processes and system architecture.
- Continuous Learning: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in engineering. Apply this knowledge to enhance and evolve our product offering and infrastructure.
Role Requirements: What you need to succeed
- Proven experience as a Staff or Principal Engineer, with a track record of designing and implementing data intensive solutions.
- Experience in a backend software engineering role.
- Strong experience working with event based architecture with strong proficiency with Kafka
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java or Kotlin.
- Strong experience with data warehousing technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift) and proficiency in SQL and JOOQ Query Generation.
- Experience of working in an event-driven architecture environment and cloud platforms (e.g, AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Familiarity with data governance and security best practices.
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, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares
- Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex! Most teams offer a roughly 60% remote, 40% 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
Personio Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Personio and has not been reviewed or approved by Personio.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous family leave, childcare support, family medical leave, and company‑sponsored family events are provided. Mental‑health coverage with therapy and psychiatry access through Spring Health, plus life and vision insurance contributions, deepen family support.
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Retirement Support — A U.S. 401(k) is offered with a company match up to 5%, strengthening long‑term savings. This adds meaningful value to total rewards for employees planning for retirement.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — All employees participate in pre‑IPO equity, with a global program revamped in 2025 and RSUs rolling out internationally. These changes aim to make ownership more competitive and tax‑efficient across markets.
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What We Do
We believe small and medium-sized organizations are the backbone of global economies, and their most valuable asset is the people they employ. But many of their HR teams are held back by complicated, time-consuming processes and admin. We’re changing that with our all-in-one HR solution that transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. At the core of our people-focused product are the individuals who craft it: We proudly identify as Personios. As we build on our success as Europe’s leading HR platform for SMEs, we are looking for the brightest minds to bring their own innovative ideas to the table. When you join our team of 1800+ across Europe and the US, you’ll have an impact from day one – for our 15,000 customers and the 1.5 million employees we serve.
Why Work With Us
Personio is one of the most valuable tech startups in Europe, but we're just getting started with revolutionizing HR for the 1.7 million small and medium-sized organizations still stuck in the spreadsheet era. Now we need your experience scaling tech companies to take us to the next level.
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