Senior Frontend Engineer

About Personio

Personio is an innovative SaaS solution that combines the vast number of HR support features in one unique tool. With Personio, you can manage documents, attendance data, absences, and salaries consistently; a complete recruiting option including onboarding and offboarding processes is available, too.

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Position

Personio is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join their international agile Product & Engineering team and take an active role in shaping their engineering culture and the future of thousands of HR teams and organizations across Europe. At Personio you will have a direct impact on our product, our users, our organization, and our engineering practices.

You will work in an autonomous, cross-functional feature-based team, where you will get to play out your dev and mentoring skills in a high-impact driven environment. You will be responsible for taking our UX and UI to the next level in close collaboration with designers and product owners. Additionally, you will play a decisive role in training and coaching your peers, as well as support in hiring decisions. An important part of the role is improving our front end codebase (primarily React) and help us run it efficiently on our AWS infrastructure.

Responsibilities: 

• Bridge the gap between Front-end Engineering and UX Design
• Develop and reinforce frontend engineering standards and guidelines among your peers across teams
• Identify, document, and communicate technical improvements within your area of responsibility in the team
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Coach and onboard peer engineers

• Take end-to-end ownership and directly contribute to Personio codebase
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Drive small- to medium-sized cross-team engineering initiatives
• Participate in tech interview processes

Your qualification

• 7+ years of relevant experience working on fast-scaling and complex systems
• High standards for the quality of UI and experience interpreting and executing on the outcomes of UX research and Product Design
• Appreciation towards software craftsmanship, clean code, and SOLID design principles
• Sound experience in performance monitoring and optimization
• Coaching experience. It’s important for you to learn from and teach peers, and to help junior team members apply best engineering and UX practices
• Passionate about working with talented and inspiring people
• Business-fluent English (Level C1/C2)

What we offer

• Market-proven, well-funded and fast growing company ($130M funding acquired to date)
• A competitive compensation package (salary, benefits and virtual shares)
• Your chance to play a decisive role in shaping Personio and have a direct impact on the daily work of hundreds of thousands of users
• 1.500 EUR of development budget per year for attending courses, conferences, buying books
• MacBook Pro and gadgets, including BOSE headsets with noise cancellation
• 28 paid vacation days, at least 3 days of home office per month, and flexible working hours
• Unu electric scooter of your choice as "company car" (see www.unumotors.com) or an additional payment for a yearly public transportation ticket
• Subsidized Qualitrain membership: For 25 euros a month you can train in 90 fitness and yoga studios, swimming pools and many other sports facilities in Munich
• Weekly German language courses
• Regular team and company events (e.g. Oktoberfest in Munich and skiing trip to Austria)

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Personio.