Job description
Staff Software Engineer – Money Domain (d/f/m)
Company Overview
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.
Job Summary
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements / Qualifications
- 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 improvements
- Experience 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on financial, payroll, or compensation systems
- Experience designing systems where data correctness and accuracy are critical
- Experience working in large SaaS platforms
Location
Munich or Berlin, Germany. Hybrid role (requires 2 days per week in the office).
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- 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
- 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations
Equal Opportunity Statement
Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an inclusive and values-driven culture.
