Lead Back-end Software Engineer (EO Workflows)

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience working on complex, distributed systems in production environments

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• High ownership and autonomy with a proven ability to independently drive technical and product decisions in ambiguous problem spaces

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• Product mindset with experience solving real customer problems and influencing solution direction

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• Solid system design skills and experience working with large codebases and evolving architectures

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• Experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar languages is helpful, but not mandatory

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• Comfort working in senior, high-trust teams where engineers own large surface areas and move multiple initiatives forward in parallel

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• Clear communication skills to explain technical decisions and collaborate effectively across disciplines

What the job involves

• As a Lead Software Engineer in the EO Workflows team, you’ll play a key role in shaping how complex employment processes are built and experienced across Personio. You’ll work on high-impact, customer-facing workflow products, owning problems end-to-end and helping evolve a core platform used across the product

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• Own complex backend problem spaces by designing, building, and evolving scalable workflow systems that power approvals, reminders, and employment-related processes

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• Act as a product-focused engineer who deeply understands customer needs and actively shapes solutions rather than just executing predefined requirements

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• Lead technical design and implementation for large initiatives such as the new Employment Workflows project, including complex chained processes and long-running workflows

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• Drive system evolution and migration by improving and extending the new workflows-based approvals system and helping retire legacy solutions

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• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions

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• Support team-level technical excellence by contributing to design discussions, reviewing code, and helping maintain high engineering standards in a senior-heavy team

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• Take ownership of legacy and future systems including the planned rebuild of the onboarding product on top of the workflows platform

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