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Xero’s online accounting software connects small business owners with their numbers, their bank, and advisors anytime.
The Role
Senior Backend Engineers at Planday will develop and manage software solutions, focusing on quality, collaboration, mentoring, and innovation while addressing complex engineering challenges.
Summary Generated by Built In
Scheduling isn't simply filling shifts. It's finding the sweet spot that enables businesses to grow and team members to enjoy the perfect work/life balance.
At Planday from Xero, we aim to use Agentic AI to build a future where managers can seamlessly free up invaluable time for their business and teams. We're not just building software: we're on a mission to make shift work more human, to change work/life balance from a luxury to a reality for all shift workers. We're using advanced technology to help humans reach their full potential. At work and in life.
Founded in 2004, Planday is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark and helps create perfect schedules for hundreds of thousands of users across the world.
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 plan
- 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
- Hybrid work environment
- 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.
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.
Top Skills
.Net Core C#
Ci/Cd
Redis
SQL
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What We Do
Xero is a global small business platform with 3.95 million subscribers which includes a core accounting solution, payroll, workforce management, expenses and projects. Xero also has an extensive ecosystem of connected apps and connections to banks and other financial institutions helping small businesses access a range of solutions from within Xero’s open platform to help them run their business and manage their finances.
Why Work With Us
Xero is not like most companies. When you join Xero, you become part of something beautiful —a global community of people who are passionate about making an impact on the world. It’s a place where you can truly be yourself and find success in a way that’s meaningful to you.
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