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 million employees. Ready to make an impact from day one?
This role requires 2 days per week in the office and is based in Dublin, Munich, or Berlin.
About Personio
At Personio, we're building the People Operating System for Europe. Our mission is to make HR effortless so teams can focus on what really matters. We serve 16,000+ customers across Europe and are scaling fast as we move towards IPO.
The Role
We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager (L6) to lead a large, senior team of software engineers within our Apps product area.
At its core the team owns Recruiting — the product our customers use to run their entire hiring process, from advertising a role to making an offer, one of Personio's biggest revenue drivers and one of the most widely used products in the platform. The team also owns other apps including Whistleblowing and Workforce Planning. Right now it's making hiring smarter with AI, building AI screening and smart candidate pipelines that help customers find the right people faster. The work is meaningful, high-impact, and visible at the highest levels of the company.
You'll inherit a large, senior team that balances technical debt and legacy systems with building the new capabilities our customers are asking for. You'll play a key role in raising the bar on how value is delivered, how technical direction is set, and how your engineers grow.
About the Team
Recruiting sits within Personio's Apps product area and is central to how our customers attract and hire talent — for many, the first part of Personio they ever touch. Together with the rest of the Apps suite, it makes up a broad, high-traffic slice of the product.
This team:
1. Is large and senior-heavy, weighted towards staff and senior engineers
2. Is based across Munich, Berlin and Dublin — with the largest group of engineers, and your Product partner, in Munich — and has a strong in-office collaboration culture
3. Owns Recruiting end to end, alongside Whistleblowing and Workforce Planning, serving some of our most demanding customers
4. Balances mature, high-traffic systems with new, AI-led capabilities like AI screening and smart candidate pipelines
5. Works closely with Product, Design, and partner teams across the Apps area and the wider platform
What You'll Do
6. Lead, mentor, and develop a senior team of software engineers, supporting performance management, promotions, and career growth
7. Own delivery, where reliability for existing customers matters as much as shipping what's next
8. Set the technical direction with your senior engineers, and raise the bar on how the team turns customer problems into delivered value
9. Balance paying down technical debt and modernising legacy systems against building new, AI-led capabilities — making the trade-offs explicit
10. Partner closely with your Product Manager to shape the roadmap, grounding technical investment in customer and business outcomes
11. Stay close enough to the code and the systems to challenge your team on technical topics and represent the domain credibly in cross-functional discussions
What We're Looking For
12. Proven experience as an Engineering Manager leading product teams, with a track record of growing and managing senior engineers
13. Strong engineering background — ideally backend or full-stack — having been hands-on recently enough to engage meaningfully in technical decisions
14. Comfortable navigating significant legacy complexity while steering a team towards a modern, AI-enabled product
15. Excellent stakeholder management, with a strong sense of customer and business value
16. Demonstrated ability to partner with Product on prioritisation and to articulate why work matters in customer and business terms
17. Solid performance management experience, including coaching, promoting, and addressing underperformance
18. A collaborative leadership style that fosters a healthy, inclusive team culture across multiple locations
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.
At Personio, we value in-person collaboration while also offering flexibility. This role is office-based, with 2 required days in your contracted office location. The remaining days can be worked from home or in the office if you prefer. In addition, you’ll have 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations.
Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:
19. Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
20. Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years
21. Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day
22. Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support (including 24 sessions per year with Oli for yourself and 10 sessions for a significant other), and sabbatical opportunities
23. We enjoy gathering for meals, cultural initiatives, and events like local Summer Sessions and year-end celebrations. There's also healthy snacks, drinks, and a weekly catered lunch.