Staff Software Engineer – Money Domain (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?

Staff Software Engineer – Money Domain (d/f/m)

Location: Munich (preferred) or Berlin

The Role

At Personio, we’re on a mission to help millions of people have a better work life. Our People Operating System helps organisations across Europe manage HR, payroll, and employee experience in one place.

As a Staff Software Engineer , you will join the Pay Connect group, working within the Money domain . This domain is responsible for how compensation is represented, managed, and processed across Personio.

Everything from base salary and hourly pay to bonuses, equity, and benefits flows through this part of the platform. The systems built in this area power both Personio’s compensation management features and the data that ultimately feeds into payroll.

This role will play a key part in evolving how compensation is modeled, scaled, and integrated across the platform as Personio continues to expand into global payroll and new compensation models .

What You’ll Do

• Lead technical design and architecture within the Money domain
• Build and evolve systems that manage compensation data across Personio
• Develop capabilities supporting different compensation types such as salary, bonuses, benefits, and equity
• Contribute to features within Personio’s Compensation Management product
• Collaborate closely with product teams to translate complex compensation requirements into scalable systems
• Improve data correctness, reliability, and performance across critical payroll inputs
• Act as a technical multiplier, helping engineers across the team deliver high-quality systems
• Contribute hands‑on to the codebase, spending roughly 50% of your time coding

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer who combines strong technical depth with a strong product mindset.

You likely bring:

• Extensive experience designing and building large-scale backend systems
• Strong experience working in product-driven engineering environments
• A track record of driving technical strategy and architectural improvementsExperience working with complex domain models and high‑accuracy data systems
• The ability to influence engineering direction across teams
• Strong hands‑on coding ability alongside technical leadership

Nice to have:

• Experience working on financial, payroll, or compensation systems
• Experience designing systems where data correctness and accuracy are critical
• Experience working in large SaaS platforms

Why Join This Team

The Money domain sits at the heart of Personio’s platform.

Compensation data is one of the core inputs into payroll , alongside time tracking and employee data. As Personio expands its payroll capabilities globally, the systems built in this domain are becoming increasingly critical to the company’s strategy.

Joining this team means working on complex product challenges that impact how thousands of organisations manage compensation across their workforce.

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an inclusive and values-driven culture.

This role requires 2 days per week in the office . The remaining days can be worked from home, plus 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations.

You’ll also benefit from:

• Competitive salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
• 28 days paid holiday, plus extra days after 2 and 4 years
• One fully paid Impact Day per year
• Family leave, mental health support, and sabbatical options
• Regular team events, office snacks, drinks, and weekly catered lunches