Staff Engineer, Documents & e-Signatures

Personio; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary, benefits & pre-IPO equity

28 days paid vacation + years-based増

Impact Day per year

Family leave, mental health support, &

Regular team events & catered lunches

Job summary

Personio is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Documents team in London or Dublin. You will set the technical direction for document storage, generation, and lifecycle management, including ownership of the e-Signatures integration with Docusign.

This is a deeply technical, hands-on role that anchors backend initiatives across teams. You will mentor engineers, drive large backend initiatives, and raise operational excellence with CI/CD and observability while delivering reliable, secure document

Qualifications

• Backend and distributed systems expertise: A strong track record architecting and delivering complex backend systems in production, ideally involving data storage, document processing, or systems where correctness and durability are critical.
• Third‑party integration experience: Comfort designing and owning integrations with external providers, managing the contracts and reliability concerns that come with depending on a partner system.
• Systems‑level thinking: The ability to see how separate services and teams fit into one coherent whole, and to design the contracts between them.
• Architectural judgement with a bias for simplicity: Strong instincts for choosing the most reliable and efficient solution rather than the most complex one, especially where accuracy and data integrity matter.
• Hands‑on delivery: Comfort staying close to the code and contributing significant production work while also setting direction for others.
• Cross‑team technical leadership: Experience anchoring long‑running initiatives that span multiple teams, from direction‑setting through to a shipped, dependable result.
• Operational excellence: Solid instincts for CI/CD, observability, and keeping critical services reliable in production, plus a history of raising standards and supporting the growth of the engineers around you. Familiarity with JVM languages such as Java or Kotlin is helpful, but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction: Define the architecture and patterns for the documents platform that handles storage, generation, templating, and lifecycle management, setting standards that other teams adopt.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Third-party integration

Systems thinking

Architectural judgement

Hands-on delivery

Cross-team leadership

CI/CD & Observability

Job description

Personio is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Documents team in London or Dublin. You will set the technical direction for document storage, generation, and lifecycle management, including ownership of the e-Signatures integration with Docusign.

This is a deeply technical, hands-on role that anchors backend initiatives across teams. You will mentor engineers, drive large backend initiatives, and raise operational excellence with CI/CD and observability while delivering reliable, secure document