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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: How You’ll Make an Impact at Personio
At Personio, we are on an exciting journey to become Europe’s leading HR platform, empowering organizations to work more efficiently by streamlining and automating thousands of HR processes.
As Engineering Manager for Personio’s Recruitment product, you’ll lead teams building smarter, faster hiring tools—revamping the candidate journey with AI, overhauling core jobs and screening features, and delivering powerful search and insights. You’ll drive technical improvements, from refactoring our platform to reworking access rights, all while shaping the future of recruitment at scale.
This role will be Hybrid, based in either our Dublin or Berlin office 2 days a week.
What You Will Focus On
High-Performing Teams
* Lead and mentor a diverse engineering team, ensuring their growth, engagement, and success.
* Create an inclusive, high-performance culture that encourages ownership and autonomy.
Maximizing Impact
* Collaborate with product and design partners to define, prioritize, and execute high-impact initiatives.
* Influence the strategic direction of workflow automation, a key driver of Personio’s enterprise growth.
Technical & Operational Excellence
* Leverage your technical background to facilitate architectural discussions, improve operational metrics, and drive scalable engineering solutions.
* Ensure that our systems maintain high performance and reliability, including improvements to page load times and system performance.
Stakeholder & Cross-Team Collaboration
* Partner with L6 engineering managers, L7 directors, and product teams to create well-aligned, strategic engineering roadmaps.
* Work across multiple business units, navigating cross-functional dependencies and ensuring alignment with broader company goals.
What You Need To Succeed
* Proven leadership experience: 3+ years of hands-on people management, successfully leading and scaling engineering teams.
* Strong engineering background: 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in scalable distributed systems.
* Technical acumen: Comfortable engaging in deep technical discussions with engineers and improving system performance metrics.
* Product-first mindset: Experience working in a product triad setup, with the ability to thrive in ambiguity and complexity.
* Stakeholder management: Excellent ability to build relationships, communicate effectively, and drive alignment across multiple teams.
* Ownership & decision-making: Skilled at creating strategic proposals and leading collaborative decision-making.
* Experience managing remote teams: The team includes engineers across London, Dublin, Germany, and New York, so remote leadership skills are a plus.
Why Personio?
Aside from working in a high-impact, fast-growing environment, we offer:
* Competitive compensation package including salary, benefits, and virtual shares.
* 26 days of paid vacation + 2 additional days off for Christmas and New Year's Eve.
* Regular company and team events like Oktoberfest, ski trips, Christmas parties, and more!
* PersonioFlex: A remote-friendly hybrid model
* Beautiful London office in a prime location.
* Mental health support because we know that wellbeing matters. #PersonioCares
* Parental benefits: 10 extra days off if your child gets sick.
* Two Impact Days per year for volunteering or social good initiatives. #SocialResponsibility
Interested?
We’d love to hear from you! Apply today and help us build the future of HR automation at Personio.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries
Software Development
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