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 Front end 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 (C#)

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.
Knowledge of .Net Core and ASP.net MVC technologies and common patterns
Analytical and critical thinking skills and the ability to clearly communicate your ideas
An understanding of API design and documentation principles
Understanding of software development practices, patterns, and technologies (SOLID, DI/IoC)
Knowledge of relational database concepts
Experience with the agile software development methodology
A few years of engineering fundamentals and experience in independently writing code used by real users
It would be beneficial if you have knowledge/experience with the following – but we want to hear from you even if you don’t.
Specific experience with Swagger (OpenAPI Specification)
Specific experience with MS SQL Server
Knowledge about the asynchronous operations

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.

Backend Engineer

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