Senior Frontend Engineer (d/f/m)

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. Ready to make an impact from day one?

Senior Frontend Engineer (d/f/m)

Product & Tech | Full Time | Berlin or Munich

The Role

This role requires 2 days per week in the office and is based in Berlin or Munich.

Join our Product & Tech team, where we drive customer outcomes by designing, developing and delivering innovative, high quality products. As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Money team, you will help shape how customers manage compensation, salary and bonuses within Personio, building the interfaces that sit at the centre of PayConnect's compensation experience.

What You'll Do

• Build Customer Facing Features: Design and ship frontend features for the compensation experience, covering salary, bonus and comp management flows used by HR teams and employees.

• Ensure Quality and Reliability: Apply strong testing practices and attention to detail in a domain where accuracy in pay related data matters directly to customers.

• Collaborate Cross Functionally: Work closely with backend engineers, product managers and designers to deliver end to end solutions for the compensation product.

• Contribute to Frontend Architecture: Help evolve frontend patterns and shared components within the Money team, keeping the codebase consistent and maintainable as it grows.

• Solve Technical Problems: Investigate and resolve complex frontend issues, including performance and data heavy UI challenges typical of compensation tooling.

• Support Team Standards: Participate in code reviews and share knowledge with peers, helping raise the quality bar across the team.

• Stay Close to the Product: Bring a customer focused mindset to your work, understanding how compensation features are used and where the experience can improve.

What You Need to Succeed

• Frontend Expertise: Strong experience with React and TypeScript, and a track record of shipping production frontend features in a complex product.

• Quality Mindset: Comfortable with testing strategies across the testing pyramid and thinking about edge cases in data sensitive flows.

• Problem Solving: Able to work through ambiguous or complex technical challenges independently, with sound judgement on when to ask for input.

• Collaboration: Strong written and spoken communication skills, and experience working closely with backend, product and design counterparts.

• Ownership: Comfortable owning a feature or problem area end to end, from technical approach through to delivery.

• Domain Interest (nice to have): Interest or prior experience in payroll, compensation, fintech or other data sensitive, regulated domains.

Why Personio

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.

At Personio, we value in person collaboration while also offering flexibility. This role is office based, with 2 days per week required in your contracted office location. The remaining days can be worked from home or in the office if you prefer. In addition, you'll have 20 Flex Days per year to work remotely from other locations.

Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• 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