Senior Engineering Manager dfm - HRIS

What is Leapsome

Leapsome is the AIpowered people platform revolutionizing HR for modern teams. Leapsome drives HR excellence and empowers highperforming teams by automating connecting and simplifying every HR process across the employee lifecycle from onboarding and performance management to engagement and development. Built with ease of use in mind our platform ensures high adoption by employees managers and People teams alike.

Our purpose is to make work fulfilling for everyone and our vision is to reshape the future of work by being the leading People platform for HR excellence and highperforming teams. We enable companies to create environments where people can achieve their goals learn and grow together and build genuine motivation & engagement.

Trusted by thousands of organizations globally Leapsome secured $60 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners in March 2022. This funding allowed us to further develop our intelligent platform create exceptional employee experiences and expand into the US market.

Its an incredibly exciting time to join Leapsome and be part of reshaping the future of work!

Your opportunity:

Join a lean highperforming product engineering team thats reshaping the future of work. At Leapsome we empower senior engineering leaders to drive impact through a unique blend of technical depth strategic thinking and peoplefirst leadership.

As a Senior Engineering Manager youll take ownership of one of our HRISfocused crossfunctional squads responsible for core product areas such as payroll time tracking absences and compensation. This is a highimpact role that goes beyond team delivery youll help shape our workflows scale our engineering culture and mentor fellow Engineering Managers while contributing to crosssquad leadership topics.

Were looking for someone who combines sharp technical instincts with a strong sense for people and product. You will code alongside your team elevate engineers and leaders around you and act as a multiplier for productivity alignment and innovation across the department. Youll guide engineers toward thoughtful scalable decisions emphasizing simplicity & maintainability instead of overengineering focusing on core user challenges with a strong product engineering mindset and planning for longterm growth. Youll champion a culture that values asking the right questions challenging assumptions and developing sound judgment across the team.

You will:

• Lead coach and grow a team of highly capable engineers supporting their career development motivation and performance

• Own the technical strategy and delivery of HRIS modules navigating complex workflows compliance and scale

• Collaborate with Product Design Legal and Leadership to ensure your squad delivers secure scalable and userfocused solutions

• Stay handson and contribute code regularly especially in moments of complexity risk or when unblocking the team

• Drive architectural decisions advocate for quality and ensure consistent pragmatic engineering practices

• Guide engineers to avoid overengineering prioritize highimpact solutions and foster sustainable scalable decisionmaking

• Encourage longterm thinking clear tradeoffs and curiositydriven problem solving

• Evolve and improve our workflows team structure and use of tooling (incl. AI) with a focus on productivity and sustainability

• Own communication with stakeholders proactively aligning priorities sharing context and providing visibility into progress

• Shape squad rituals performance expectations and decisionmaking frameworks balancing autonomy with alignment

What is the technology stack

• Frontend: TailwindCSS and a modern design system for a consistent intuitive user experience

• Backend: (TypeScript) with Express MongoDB and NATS built for scalability and modularity

• AI/LLMs: Integration of stateoftheart AI technologies like GPT from OpenAI and LangChain to create smarter workflows and enhance functionality

• Infrastructure: Docker and AWS ensuring robust CI/CD pipelines and scalable infrastructure

• Testing: Automated testing using Playwright Vitest Mocha/Chai and other tools to maintain highquality reliable codebases

• Analytics: Mixpanel Sentry Datadog and custom solutions for datadriven development and monitoring

• Collaboration: GitHub Notion and async communication tools for transparent teamwork

Youll be a good fit if you:

• Have 6 years of experience as a software engineer and 4 years as an engineering manager with a track record of growing people and delivering impactful software

• Are comfortable working across the stack and willing to dive into code when necessary

• Have led teams working on transactional compliancesensitive systems (e.g. HRIS payroll finance SaaS platforms)

• Combine technical depth with a passion for people leadership and coaching

• Demonstrate strategic thinking strong prioritization and the ability to communicate with clarity across levels

• Are experienced in collaborating with crossfunctional stakeholders and driving alignment

• Guide engineers to develop strong judgment around complexity scalability and longterm value creation

• Value product thinking enjoy solving real user problems and dont wait to be told what to build

• Bring a mindset of pragmatic excellence knowing when to ship and when to refactor

• Approach challenges with curiosity and humility always open to learning from others and excited by Leapsomes mission to make work more meaningful

Benefits at Leapsome

• Impact: Become part of a fastgrowing scaleup taking over the People Performance & Enablement space by making work fulfilling for more than two million people by 2025

• Teammates: Join a diverse and international team of talented smart and kind people

• Feedback and recognition: We value feedback exchange and celebrating successes big and small

• Hybrid model: Enjoy our hybrid model by working from home or in our offices in the heart of Berlin Germany

• Flexible work: Experience a worklife balance with flexible hours and the option of working elsewhere for up to 2 months per year

• Learning and Development: Develop your skills with a yearly development budget of 2000 and access to Good Habitz platform

• Vacation: Take 30 vacation days every year plus public holidays (or upgrade to 40 vacation days at adjusted pay) & benefit from a monthlong paid sabbatical after 5 years with Leapsome

• Health & Wellness: Stay active and healthy with a free Urban Sports Club membership and Oliva subscription

• Mental health: Access to 1:1 therapy sessions via our mental health partner plus company workshops and learning pathways on topics like mindfulness and digital wellness

• Corporate Benefits: Get exclusive discounts and deals from our partners.

• Workfromhome stipend: Receive a onetime workfromhome stipend of 1000

• Monthly team activities: Have fun at monthly team activities like kayaking laser tag and game nights

• Competitive pay and preIPO equity package

Leapsomes values

We stay true to our values in everything we do at Leapsome.

• Seek impact What brought us together is the desire to make work fulfilling for everyone. Were likeminded in that we seek out and hold ourselves accountable for the impact we want to have in this world.

• Listen & learn We thoroughly and genuinely seek understanding. It helps us to constantly grow together and learn from each other as well as from our customers and partners.

• Challenge the status quo We regularly challenge ourselves. We dont walk the beaten path just because everyone else does. Instead we reflect and seek out better ways.

• Take ownership & pursue excellence Were a group of smart and dedicated people and we trust each other to truly own our work. Were not afraid of high expectations as we strive for excellence.

• Be honest & transparent Were honest and transparent with each other and ourselves. We want to get to the core of it always. We trust each other to handle all shared information with care.

• Be kind & humble We are more than just colleagues we genuinely care for each other. We give each team member the appreciation they deserve and the support they need. We have no interest in serving our own ego.
  
  

Excited to be part of Leapsome

Just send us your CV. You wont need to input any information already mentioned on your CV later on promise!

A cover letter isnt necessary but wed really appreciate a brief answer to these questions: Why Leapsome Why you

We look forward to getting to know you!

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Dont meet every single requirement Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification. If youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.


Help us make work fulfilling for everyone!

At Leapsome we want work to be the best it can be for everyone. We help companies create environments where people can achieve shared goals build authentic relationships learn and grow together.

Put simply; our purpose is to make work fulfilling for everyone. And we know how to get there. But we can only do this by walking our talk and building a diverse and inclusive company where people not just the business thrive.

Apply now or keep scrolling to read more about what makes Leapsome a unique workplace!