Staff Software Engineer, L6 (Full-stack / Backend) - Recruiting (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?
The Role
This role requires 2 days per week in the office and is based in Munich, Berlin or Dublin.
As a Staff Software Engineer in our Recruiting team, you'll set the technical direction for one of Personio's biggest revenue drivers — the product customers use to run their entire hiring process — alongside Whistleblowing and Workforce Planning. You'll join a large, senior-heavy team that balances mature, high-traffic systems with new, AI-led capabilities like AI screening and smart candidate pipelines, and you'll take on the hardest, least-defined problems: the ones that often reach beyond the team's own boundaries.
What You'll Do
Identify and disambiguate the hardest problems — including ambiguous ones that span beyond the team — and turn them into clear, solvable work for others to build on.
Set technical direction across Recruiting, Whistleblowing and Workforce Planning, making architecture and design decisions that hold up across the platform.
Drive initiatives that cross team lines, aligning with staff engineers and partner teams across the Apps area and the wider platform.
Invest in the success of every project and engineer on the team — not only your own work — through design guidance, mentoring, and unblocking others.
Shape the team's AI-led capabilities, such as AI screening and smart candidate pipelines, from approach through to delivery.
Lead the modernisation of legacy systems while keeping a major revenue-driving product reliable for some of our most demanding customers.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and partner teams, representing the domain credibly in cross-team and architectural discussions.
What You Need to Succeed
Extensive software engineering experience designing and operating complex, distributed systems in production (full-stack; strong backend or frontend depth both welcome).
High autonomy in ambiguity — you find and frame the right problems, especially the messy ones that cross team boundaries, before solving them.
Strong ownership at scale — you feel accountable for the success of the whole team's output, not just the code you write.
A growth mindset — you raise the bar for yourself and the engineers around you, and grow others in the process.
Strong system design and architecture skills that extend well beyond a single team's scope.
Product and business judgement — you connect technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
Influential communication — you align engineers and stakeholders across teams around a shared technical direction.
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:
Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity
Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years
Make an impact on the environment and society with 1 (fully paid) Impact Day
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
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.
