Lead Frontend Engineer - All Personio Locations

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Lead Frontend Engineer – All Personio Locations, Berlin

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Client:

Personio

Location:

Berlin, Germany

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

2

Posted:

21.06.2025

Expiry Date:

05.08.2025

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Job Description:

The Role: How you\’ll make an impact at Personio

This position is office-based, hybrid working policy in our European offices – Munich, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Dublin, and London.

Note: Hiring location is subject to headcount needs.

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.

As a Lead Engineer (d/f/m), you will be a bar raiser in a mission-based team within the Personio Engineering organization, leading the team\’s most complex projects. All Lead Engineers are coding hands-on and are responsible for the technical strategy of the team. Additionally, based on your strengths you will be acting as a multiplier, upleveling the technical expertise of your team or diving deep into the most complex technical challenges – either way: we are relying on your technical leadership!

There are different areas and products, where you can make an impact, either accelerating our established products or developing new ones. In your first interview, we can dive deeper into the different challenges to find the most exciting one for you, and in the meantime, you can check out our career page to find out more.

Role Responsibilities: What you\’ll do

• Taking responsibility for delivery of larger in-team projects that may have a high level of uncertainty and risk, with a pragmatic approach to estimation, scoping and planning
• Following and promoting best practices to solve higher complexity challenges by building reliable, performant and elegant solutions that are easy to work with
• Owning the technical output and standards for the team, ensuring engineering and operational excellence
• Actively involved in the definition and fulfillment of the team\’s strategy and bringing technical perspective into account
• Giving useful and effective feedback, actively seeking to improve the entire team by regularly sharing knowledge and mentoring others
• Stepping up, actively driving team topics and supporting other team members
• Communicating with cross-functional stakeholders and leadership, targeted for the audience
• Participating in activities within the larger org, and performing actions that positively influence groups of people

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• Over 7 years of software engineering experience in building and designing scalable applications with over 2 years of experience leading software engineering teams to solve complex problems
• Mastery of front-end frameworks (React preferred), TypeScript, Critical Render Path (CRP) and CSS
• Experience with micro-frontends, mono repositories and client and server side rendering (CSR, SSR)
• Proficiency in different types of testing strategies (testing pyramid)
• Experience building a technical strategy and translating it into reality
• A proven track record of enabling your teammates and amplifying their technical abilities by mentoring and coaching
• Comfortable dealing with uncertainty and managing risk
• Strong written and spoken communication skills (in English)

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.

The Role: How you\’ll make an impact at Personio

This position is office-based, hybrid working policy in our European offices – Munich, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Dublin, and London.

Note: Hiring location is subject to headcount needs.

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.

As a Lead Engineer (d/f/m), you will be a bar raiser in a mission-based team within the Personio Engineering organization, leading the team\’s most complex projects. All Lead Engineers are coding hands-on and are responsible for the technical strategy of the team. Additionally, based on your strengths you will be acting as a multiplier, upleveling the technical expertise of your team or diving deep into the most complex technical challenges – either way: we are relying on your technical leadership!

There are different areas and products, where you can make an impact, either accelerating our established products or developing new ones. In your first interview, we can dive deeper into the different challenges to find the most exciting one for you, and in the meantime, you can check out our career page to find out more.

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