Staff Engineer, EO Workflows (d/f/m)

The Role

This role requires 2 days per week in the office and is based in London, Berlin or Munich. Join us to shape the future of software in the underserved and high-impact HR technology industry. Your work will have a direct and tangible impact on customers, offering ownership and the chance to make a meaningful difference. As we prepare for significant growth, you'll face exciting challenges and have the opportunity to influence our path toward becoming one of the world's leading tech companies.

As a Staff Engineer in the EO Workflows team, you will set the technical direction for the systems that power approvals, reminders, and complex, long-running employment processes across Personio. EO is the backbone of the platform, and the workflows engine sits at the centre of how every customer automates the way work moves through their organisation. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role for an engineer who can anchor backend initiatives that span teams and raise the bar for everyone around them.

What You'll Do

Set technical direction: Define the architecture and patterns for the workflows platform that powers approvals, reminders, and long-running employment processes, setting standards that other teams adopt.

Solve the hardest problems simply: Find the simplest robust solution to complex, chained, and long-running workflow challenges, writing meaningful amounts of production code yourself.

Drive complex initiatives end to end: Lead large backend initiatives such as evolving the workflows-based approvals system and rebuilding products on top of the platform, taking accountability for delivery and quality the whole way through.

Work across boundaries: Partner with engineers, product managers, and designers across EO and beyond, bringing services together so capabilities are adopted consistently rather than shipped in isolation.

Raise operational excellence: Improve how the team deploys, observes, and maintains services, keeping critical systems reliable and reducing complexity as the platform scales.

Coach and elevate engineers: Mentor senior and lead engineers through design feedback, pairing on hard problems, and the example you set.