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 and accounting 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, Australia and the US. Planday was acquired by Xero in 2021.

Every day our engineers design, develop, test, release, operate and measure the Planday product under the Agile philosophy, and in so doing, redefine the interaction between businesses and employees around the world. In this global picture, Planday's Engineering team ensures that our products and services do what we expect, and perform well 24/7.

In this role, you will join an international, highly motivated, cross-functional, and self-driven team that includes developers, designers, and product managers. We trust that you understand how your technical solutions help to implement the company vision and that you have a passion for interacting with many different people to achieve a goal. We are looking for an engineer who enjoys innovation, challenging the status quo, and taking great pride in building products used by thousands of people all over the world.

You can expect to work with the following:

- Have a natural curiosity towards learning new things, and the desire to innovate and grow your own abilities

- Collaborate with (and learn from) colleagues who have a profound understanding of other disciplines like design, project-management and Frontend development in highly agile teams

- Take complex business problems and convert them into simple clean code solutions across multiple platforms

- Design and develop various components of Planday, including webhooks, microservice architecture data transformation services, import and export services, Open APIs, and .netcore

If you see yourself in some of the points below, great - we’re excited to learn more about you!

Our ideal Backend Engineer is accustomed to a distributed team structure and the ability to build business logic and tests.

- You are capable of switching contexts effectively and reach pragmatic solutions through quick decision making

- Proficient in .Net Core andASP.net MVC technologies and common patterns

- Analytical and critical thinking skills and the ability to clearly communicate your ideas

- Experience with API design and documentation principles

- Experience with software development practices, patterns, and technologies

- Understanding of relational database concepts

- Experience with the agile software development methodology

- Experience with testing

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.

Backend Engineer

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