Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• Strong experience as a backend engineer in production environments
• Solid skills in Kotlin, Java, or a similar JVM language, and comfort picking up a new stack
• Experience designing and scaling APIs and distributed systems where reliability and correctness matter
• Comfort building from scratch rather than extending established platforms and internal tooling
• A strong sense of ownership, and the ability to move things forward without a lot of scaffolding around you
• Clear communication, particularly across engineering disciplines
• Experience working alongside machine learning or data engineering teams
• Exposure to LLM-based systems, RAG, or agent architectures
• Experience with AWS, and with Bedrock or a comparable model platform
• Interest in AI-assisted development workflows

What the job involves

• We're hiring multiple Senior Backend Engineers into our AI team in London
• This team owns Personio's AI experiences end to end. That means the model layer (how we interact with Bedrock, prompt tuning, RAG), the platform underneath it (infrastructure, data flow, the APIs our LLMs are exposed through), and the customer-facing side (how users actually trigger and interact with these features)
• Alongside the Personio Assistant, this team owns the agentic architecture that Personio's next generation of AI features will be built on. That includes the Analytics Agent launching this year, agentic experiences in Recruiting, and AI features embedded across Performance & Development and People Analytics, such as follow-up questions inside summaries and smart metrics on the analytics dashboard
• You do not need a machine learning background. Most of this work is building well-designed, reliable backend systems, and it is not fundamentally different from building any other API. What is different is who you build it with and what sits on top: you will work day to day alongside machine learning engineers, and the systems you build are what every agentic experience at Personio will run on
• If you are a strong backend engineer who wants real exposure to applied AI without moving away from engineering, this is a good place to do it
• Design and build the backend services and APIs that power Personio's AI Assistant and agent experiences
• Build out the underlying platform that upcoming agentic products across Personio will be built on
• Own features end to end, from problem definition through to production
• Work directly with machine learning engineers on the systems around retrieval, prompting, and model interaction
• Make architectural decisions in a young, fast-moving domain where the patterns are still being set
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and the teams building AI features into their own product areas

Benefits

• 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 (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)
• Make an impact on the environment and society with Impact Days
• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares
• Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events like All Company Culture Week and local year-end celebrations
• Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
• Find your best way to work with our office-led, and remote-friendly PersonioFlex!