Our Purpose
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.
How you’ll make an impact
As the Platform Team Lead, you will play a key role in ensuring the availability, security, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of Planday's technical platform. You will also lead the further development of the Platform and ecosystem to ensure the future scale of the Planday product.
You will lead a team of experienced Platform Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to create, develop and maintain a robust foundation for our product, enabling stable high-performance product experience for our customers. You will contribute and execute on the engineering strategy as well as making sure to align this strategy to company objectives.
You’ll maintain a working environment in which your team can do their best work predictably and sustainably. You’ll make sure the team has all the information they need and the right feedback loops in place to discover and deliver valuable, usable, and buildable outcomes. You’ll monitor and look to support the operational health of your team and products, aiming for resilience.
You will support your team to hone their engineering skills and grow as individuals in order to meet the capabilities required for the team. Your focus will be on driving engineering initiatives and ensuring the team makes progress towards their goals.
What you’ll do
Platform Engineering
Ensure the availability, security, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of Planday's technical platform to serve our product and customers effectively. Oversee and participate through direct contribution to the development of the platform, following the platform strategy. Execute technical leadership through participation in technical projects potentially with hands-on activities, leveraging your expertise to drive successful outcomes.
Developer Experience
Enable all Planday engineers to develop, test, and deliver product experiences using well proven value-adding technologies and tools by providing an extensive and easy-to-use toolset and development platform.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
Engage in cross-department projects and activities, ensuring alignment and collaboration across various functions within the organisation. Take part in cross-departm