Senior Android Engineer

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, 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 identify solutions for development or production issues, and effectively communicate the impact to stakeholders. Recognize 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 behaviors.
• Communication skills: Proactively share information, actively solicit feedback, manage and facilitate communication if needed.
• Build relationships: Successfully build trust and credibility with stakeholders and the 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, and demonstrate conflict management skills.
• Self-learning: Maintains in-depth knowledge of advances and learning in technologies relevant to Planday’s engineering environment.

We are looking for someone with the following experience

• Deep expertise in Kotlin, and the Android SDK, including advanced features and libraries.
• Experience with Jetpack Compose and a strong understanding of its benefits and best practices.
• Proven ability to apply functional and reactive programming principles to build robust, scalable, maintainable, and modularised Android applications.
• In-depth knowledge of Android performance optimization techniques, including memory management, battery usage, and network efficiency.
• Experience with design patterns (MVVM, MVI), clean architecture, and system design, including defining and implementing scalable and maintainable solutions for complex Android applications.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with Java is a plus.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for Android applications.
• Familiarity with other mobile platforms (iOS) is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and/or .NET is a plus.
• Proven ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.

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.