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Senior Backend Engineer - Product Platform (m/f/d)- Remote

Permanent employee, Full-time · Remote
The Role
This role will be fully remote from one of the following countries: Spain, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands or UK.

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 400.000 people.

At Product Platform we make incredible HR products simple to build and use — through essential business capabilities, like IAM, Data Platform and Design Systems, available in an open, secure and reliable platform. We provide the building blocks so that other teams can dream big.

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 2022. Join us and help shape the Product Platform journey for Personio — we are just getting started!

Responsibilities

  • You will be part of the design and creation of platform services that accelerate the delivery of unique product value to our customers
  • You autonomously own and execute on complex problems within the team and engage on technical decisions with stakeholders
  • You develop backend functionality in a incremental, maintainable, reliable, performant, and secure way
  • You push our team-internal agile and engineering practices towards excellence with efficient, performant code, good design patterns and healthy engineering standards
  • You’re a coach and mentor for junior and professional engineers in your team
  • You participate in technical case interviews to bring in exceptional talent such as yourself
How we work

  • We use our platform mindset to transform our PHP application and create new functionality in Kotlin microservices
  • We are a product company, so our teams are organised in a mission-based cross-functional fashion. You will work in the Product Platform Domain, alongside other Backend Engineers, Designers, Product and Engineering managers to create the building blocks that accelerate value-delivery in customer-facing domains
  • We have a “you built it, you run it” attitude and CI/CD is our second nature - we use AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitLab to implement it
What you need to succeed
What skills you should bring:

  • Over 5 years of software engineering experience building and designing scalable applications, tools or distributed systems
  • Strong expertise with at least one of our tech stacks: Java/Kotlin (JVM, Gradle, SpringBoot) or PHP (Laravel)
  • Experience with event driven architectures, DDD, SOLID and eventual consistency
  • Experience in building platform services, SDKs and frameworks to streamline the internal usage of services
  • You’re a cloud-native (AWS preferred) and bring experience with containerisation and container orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes preferred)
  • You can translate Domain strategy into engineering decisions
  • You have strong knowledge on software testing strategies, CI/CD, pull/merge request and code reviews
  • You have an excellent written and spoken English (level C1/C2 on the CEFR scale)
What motivation and mentality you should bring:

  • Proactive problem solver. You are willing to leave code and engineering practices in a better shape than when you first encountered them
  • We are experiencing rapid growth and are “building our plane while flying it”. So bring your agile mindset to the table!
  • Let’s grow together and embrace feedback - no one is perfect, neither are we. Let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other.
  • Teaching, Coaching and empowering your colleagues is something that fulfils you
  • Humour. Have fun with us, learn with us from mistakes and bring your good vibes.
Why Personio
Aside from our people, culture, and mission, there are a variety of additional benefits that help make Personio a great place to work! Work with us and receive:

  • Competitive compensation package that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
  • 28 days of paid vacation, plus another additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
  • 2 Impact Days you can use to have an impact on the environment and society –  one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative! #SocialResponsibility
  • Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex! We offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework to suit your needs
  • Annual personal development budget of €1,500 for conferences, courses, books, career coach, etc.
  • Regular company and team events like Oktoberfest, ski trips, Christmas parties, and more! (COVID permitting)
  • High-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
  • Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares
  • Save money with corporate discounts across brands like Adidas, LG, Bosch, Apple, and more
  • A remote setup subsidy of 300€ to make your Homeoffice your favourite place to work
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About us
Being a Personio means being part of something big. It means shaping the future of HR, the future of our company, and at the same time, the future of you. And we’re not just one of the fastest-growing B2B SaaS companies in Europe. In October 2021 we raised $270 million in Series E funding, making Personio the fastest-growing and most valuable HR technology company in Europe. With more than 6,000 customers and a team that has doubled in size in 2021 alone, now is the perfect time to join! We’re hiring talented, impact-driven individuals who want to be more than just another employee.

Personio is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We #EmbraceUniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. As we continue to scale, we focus on enabling our employees to grow both personally and professionally.

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.

Will you join us in shaping the future of HR in Europe?



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