Staff Software Engineer, L6 (Full-stack / Backend) - Recruiting (d/f/m)

Personio's intelligent HR platform helps organizations unlock the power of people. As a Staff Software Engineer in the Recruiting team, you'll set technical direction for a key product, working on high-traffic systems and AI-led capabilities like AI screening.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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