Denmark Job Openings

Xero

Senior Backend Engineer

Copenhagen

FULL TIME

August 27, 2024

Planday from Xero is a leading digital solution that uncomplicates everyday scheduling and workforce management by making it easier for businesses and shift workers around the world to communicate, collaborate, and get work done.

Powered by a community of local industry experts, Planday provides a best-in-class digital platform that is easy to use, accurate, secure, and compliant with local needs and standards. From payroll to POS and reporting, its open API and tech ecosystem is scalable to fit shifting business needs and to build an engaged, flexible workforce.

Founded in 2004, Planday is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark and supports over 400,000 users across Europe and the US. Planday was acquired by Xero in 2021.

How you’ll make an impact

You'll help build and manage software that solves engineering problems at scale. You’ll work in

collaboration with other Plandayers to help create and deliver beautiful software to our customers, faster.

You’ll undertake software application development on applications in our existing suite of products (including new ones), contributing to new or improved experiences for our customers, internal and external.

You’ll help maintain the standard for engineering excellence at Planday and support your team

members in building products together. You’ll demonstrate leadership on best practices, and be a role model and mentor for other team members. You’ll contribute to our cross functional

environment by working towards the same objectives, using modern principles and practices.

You’ll be enabled to seek clarity with technical complexities and be able to demonstrate smart ways to automate. You’ll be able to make data-driven decisions that will release value early to solve Planday customers' problems more effectively.

What you’ll do

Create software: Care deeply about customer problems and technical excellence, develop high quality and scalable software, and coach others to do the same. Relentlessly automate any manual processes. Contribute to technical solution designs that embrace a quality-first approach. Participate in code reviews as a role model for giving and receiving feedback.
Test software: Design and perform sophisticated testing activities that effectively and efficiently reveal product quality across a range of risk areas and quality criteria. Coach team members to enable high quality testing in line with Planday’s quality strategy and standards.
Resolve issues: Efficiently assess the causes and identify solutions for development or production issues, and effectively communicate the impact to stakeholders. Recognise common patterns of failure to mitigate issues before they reach production. Proactively participate in incident responses and contribute to post-mortems.
Engineering standards & frameworks: Contribute to Planday's engineering standards and frameworks. Work closely with the Staff Engineers and Architects to apply standards to software and delivery processes.
Continuous improvement: Proactively maintain, grow and share knowledge of development technologies used in the development of Planday’s software applications.
Deliver infrastructure in a production environment: Champion automation of delivery processes. Coach and support engineers to ensure all software is running as expected and proactively works to prevent customer facing problems.
Modern software and delivery practices: Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working.
Recruitment: Participate in interviews and recruitment processes.

Success looks like

Live Planday’s vision and values: Keep Planday’s vision and values at the forefront of decision-making and actions. Communicate and help others understand the importance of the vision and values. Translate the vision and values into day-to-day activities and behaviours.
Communication skills: Proactively share information, actively solicit feedback, manage and facilitate communication if needed.
Build relationships: Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and team. Be seen as a key 'go to' person for advice.
Growth mindset: Understand that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. Coach and provide feedback to others on development plans.
Innovation and delivery: Proactively innovate and deliver technology in a team and solve customer problems through software.
Coaching and mentorship: Teach small groups of engineers and contribute to Planday's shared knowledge base.
Work collaboratively: Help individuals resolve difficult problems with empathy, exchange ideas, demonstrate conflict management skills.
Self-learning: Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learnings in technologies relevant to Planday’s engineering environment.

We are looking for someone with the following experience

A strong foundation in .NET Core C#
Experience in working with SQL and Redis
Proficient with CI/CD concepts and tooling.
Highly proficient in the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. Ability to refactor complex, monolithic systems into scalable, resilient components.
Ability to review and coordinate team processes to improve quality and strengthen feedback loops.

At Planday, we offer you:

Benefits like pension, health insurance, inclusive support for new parents and generous vacation
On top of your annual base salary, you are offered to be part of an Employee Share Plan
Growth and progression opportunities – we want you to grow with us
Flexible remote work
Strong social culture with lots of team and company activities
Meaningful work – everyone at Planday contributes to improving the lives of shift workers around the globe
Healthy work-life balance and autonomous approach to work. We trust in you and your abilities

Finally, our offices are not just workplaces (although they are pretty nice and well-located, we have to say!). Plandayers are open and welcoming and at Planday, everyone has the freedom and support to show their true self at work.

Our tech stack is cutting edge and our engineering work is supported by dedicated in-house scrum masters and agile evangelists.

At Planday, we firmly believe that diversity and inclusion are the cornerstones of innovation and a vibrant workplace culture, and we highly value the strength that diverse backgrounds offer.

As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to create an equitable experience for all our candidates throughout the process. Please let us know if you need reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process.

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to any personal characteristics.

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