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Senior Staff Software Engineer / L7 Tech Lead (Developer Experience)

Personio

Skills

Required

  • build orchestration
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • release automation
  • polyglot
  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • PHP

Join Personio, an intelligent HR platform that simplifies complex tasks for small and medium-sized organizations. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead) in Developer Experience, you will set the technical direction for developer productivity across the entire engineering stack. This hands-on role requires expertise in core languages, CI/CD, testing, and AI-powered developer tooling. You will work closely with engineering leaders and represent Developer Experience in architecture reviews and technical decision-making forums.

Set the technical strategy for developer experience, simplifying the stack and data flow, and architecting how CI/CD, build orchestration, testing frameworks, and underlying tooling evolve together.

About Personio

Provide technical leadership on the backbone of service-to-service communication: proto/gRPC contracts, API evolution, and Kafka-based eventing patterns that underpin our microservices architecture.

Requirements

  • Own the technical direction for CI/CD pipelines, build orchestration, and release automation across a polyglot codebase (Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, PHP) to increase developer productivity.