Staff 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?
Staff Engineer, EO Workflows (d/f/m)
Product & Tech | Full Time | London, Berlin or Munich
The Role
This role requires 2 days per week in the office and is based in London, Berlin or Munich. Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry. Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference. As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies.
As a Staff Engineer in the EO Workflows team, you will set the technical direction for the systems that power approvals, reminders, and complex, long-running employment processes across Personio. EO is the backbone of the platform, and the workflows engine sits at the centre of how every customer automates the way work moves through their organisation. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role for an engineer who can anchor backend initiatives that span teams and raise the bar for everyone around them.
What You'll Do
Set technical direction: Define the architecture and patterns for the workflows platform that powers approvals, reminders, and long-running employment processes, setting standards that other teams adopt.
Solve the hardest problems simply: Find the simplest robust solution to complex, chained, and long-running workflow challenges, writing meaningful amounts of production code yourself.
Drive complex initiatives end to end: Lead large backend initiatives such as evolving the workflows-based approvals system and rebuilding products on top of the platform, taking accountability for delivery and quality the whole way through.
Work across boundaries: Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers across EO and beyond, bringing services together so capabilities are adopted consistently rather than shipped in isolation.
Raise operational excellence: Improve how the team deploys, observes, and maintains services, keeping critical systems reliable and reducing complexity as the platform scales.
Coach and elevate engineers: Mentor senior and lead engineers through design feedback, pairing on hard problems, and the example you set.
What You Need to Succeed
Backend and distributed systems expertise: A strong track record architecting and delivering complex backend systems in production, ideally involving workflows, long-running processes, or event-driven architectures.
Systems-level thinking: The ability to see how separate services and teams fit into one coherent whole, and to design the contracts between them.
Architectural judgement with a bias for simplicity: Strong instincts for choosing the most reliable and efficient solution rather than the most complex one, especially where correctness matters.
Hands-on delivery: Comfort staying close to the code and contributing significant production work while also setting direction for others.
Cross-team technical leadership: Experience anchoring long-running initiatives that span multiple teams, from direction-setting through to a shipped, dependable result.
Operational excellence: Solid instincts for CI/CD, observability, and keeping critical services reliable in production.
Coaching and influence: A history of raising standards and supporting the growth of the engineers around you. Familiarity with JVM languages such as Java or Kotlin is helpful, but not mandatory.
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
