Senior Engineering Manager, Platform - Developer Experience

Personio; München; Hybrid; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading HR platform is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager in Munich to enhance developer satisfaction and efficiency. You'll support engineering teams, manage technical processes, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. With a commitment to diversity and employee support, great benefits are included.

Leistungen

Competitive salary packages

Generous vacation

Flexible working arrangements

Development budgets

Social events

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of management experience leading high-performing teams.
• Strong leadership skills and decision-making ability.
• Expertise with PHP, ideally Laravel.

Aufgaben

• Research and improve developer tooling and processes.
• Build relationships with product teams for platform migrations.
• Establish best practices for code quality and technical debt management.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

PHP

Team Collaboration

Problem Solving

Data-Driven Decision Making

Continuous Learning

Jobbeschreibung

The Role: How you'll make an impact at Personio

This position is based in Munich, Berlin, London or Dublin. Office-based with a hybrid working policy.

At Personio, we are on an exciting hypergrowth journey to become the leading HR Platform in Europe! We’re looking for experienced Software Engineers to join our Product & Technology department, who will play an active role in shaping our engineering culture and the future of HR teams across Europe.

Our PHP Developer Experience team is part of our Developer Experience (DX) tribe. Within DX, we enable engineers to build, test, and deploy code efficiently and reliably. We focus on maximizing engineering efficiency by developing robust development tools, building scalable DevOps processes, and promoting best practices. Your focus will be to create tooling solutions that reduce complexity and risk in software development, deployment, and release.

The Senior Engineering Manager is a crucial, cross-functional role supporting our engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle. You will help teams leverage the platform effectively while minimizing cognitive load.

Role Responsibilities: What you'll do

• Research, engineer, and experiment with new ways to enhance developer satisfaction and velocity through effective tooling and process improvements.
• Build relationships with product teams to support platform migrations, understanding their challenges to develop targeted solutions.
• Lead technically by establishing best practices for managing technical debt, refactoring, design patterns, code review, and pair programming.
• Drive platform improvements with innovative ideas to maintain quality, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
• Collaborate with other engineering managers, sharing technical updates and ensuring iterative, impactful results that foster a culture of experimentation and continuous delivery.

Role Requirements: What you need to succeed

• 5+ years of management experience leading high-performing teams and learning from challenges.
• Strong leadership skills that motivate and inspire engineers.
• Decision-making ability to handle ambiguous problems and define strategic directions.
• Expertise with PHP codebases, ideally Laravel, including build ecosystems.
• Proven ability to design, build, document, and distribute developer tools and services.
• Opinionated about development processes and eager to optimize and automate workflows.
• Experience working with developer-facing tools and creating technical documentation and tutorials.
• Data-driven mindset, using metrics to inform engineering decisions.
• Excellent written and spoken English (CEFR level C1/C2).
• Openness to feedback and continuous learning.

Why Personio

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and supported. Our benefits include competitive salary packages, generous vacation, impact days, family support, flexible working arrangements, development budgets, and social events.

About us

We are transforming HR technology to improve everyday work experiences globally. Join our team of over 2,000 employees across eight offices to make a real impact in HR innovation.

Our principles guide us: exceeding customer expectations, delivering results, elevating one another, challenging with care, and igniting positive momentum.