Lead Software Engineer - EO Workflows (d/f/m)

Lead Software Engineer - EO Workflows (d/f/m) 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 team of 1,500 Personios is building user-friendly products that delight our 15,000+ customers and their 1.5 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?

Lead Software Engineer (Back-end) – EO Workflows

The Role This role requires

2 days per week

in the office and is based in

Munich or London .

As a Lead Software Engineer in the EO Workflows team, you’ll play a key role in shaping how complex employment processes are built and experienced across Personio. You’ll work on high-impact, customer-facing workflow products, owning problems end-to-end and helping evolve a core platform used across the product.

What You’ll Do Own complex backend problem spaces

by designing, building, and evolving scalable workflow systems that power approvals, reminders, and employment-related processes.

Act as a product-focused engineer

who deeply understands customer needs and actively shapes solutions rather than just executing predefined requirements.

Lead technical design and implementation

for large initiatives such as the new Employment Workflows project, including complex chained processes and long-running workflows.

Drive system evolution and migration

by improving and extending the new workflows-based approvals system and helping retire legacy solutions.

Collaborate cross-functionally

with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions.

Support team-level technical excellence

by contributing to design discussions, reviewing code, and helping maintain high engineering standards in a senior-heavy team.

Take ownership of legacy and future systems

including the planned rebuild of the onboarding product on top of the workflows platform.

What You Need to Succeed Strong backend engineering experience

working on complex, distributed systems in production environments.

High ownership and autonomy

with a proven ability to independently drive technical and product decisions in ambiguous problem spaces.

Product mindset

with experience solving real customer problems and influencing solution direction.

Solid system design skills

and experience working with large codebases and evolving architectures.

Experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar languages

is helpful, but not mandatory.

Comfort working in senior, high-trust teams

where engineers own large surface areas and move multiple initiatives forward in parallel.

Clear communication skills

to explain technical decisions and collaborate effectively across disciplines.

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.

At Personio, we value in-person collaboration while also offering flexibility. This role is office-based, with

2 days per week

required in your contracted office location. The remaining days can be worked from home or in the office if you prefer, plus

20 Flex Days per year

to work remotely from other locations.

In addition, you’ll benefit from:

A competitive reward package including salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity

28 days of paid vacation, plus additional days after 2 and 4 years

One fully paid Impact Day per year

Generous family leave, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities

Regular team events, healthy office snacks, drinks, and weekly catered lunches

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