At Planday, we know that happy people power great businesses. We provide a career-defining workplace based on the values: transparency, communication and flexibility. We live and breathe for our customers’ success, while retaining a Scandinavian approach to work-life balance. We celebrate each other’s achievements and differences and encourage each other to learn and grow. If you recognise these values in yourself, we’d love you to join us on our journey.

We are looking to secure a Director of Engineering to lead our software development and QA teams in Copenhagen.

With overall line management of a team of c.40 people with around 10 direct reports, and reporting to the CTO, this person will be responsible for growing and retaining a highly skilled and highly motivated software development and test team. Working closely with architecture, team agile and product, they will work to continuously improve the software delivery processes, optimising for speed and quality.

If you are comfortable in a fast-paced environment, want to work for one of Europe’s leading and largest VC-backed SaaS businesses, and if you have demonstrable experience in growing and leading a world class software engineering team, then we would like to talk to you.

Requirements:

• Line management of a large team based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Grow and retain a skilled team, leading resourcing and recruitment, supporting career development and building and promoting a positive and motivating working environment.

• Working closely with Team Agile to define and embed ways effective ways of working; continually evolving and optimising.

• Develop manual and automated testing initiatives using a combination of process, people, and effective testing methodologies

• Set expectations for Technical Leads, Developers, QA and test automation engineers

• Provide guidance and leadership in the development of hard and soft skills

• Develop and maintain a programme of technical training, including online, internal, external, conferences and informal knowledge sharing.

• Facilitate and support regular meetings, meet-ups, and knowledge leadership sessions internally, and externally in the tech community.

• Manage the cost, licensing and use of engineer-specific platforms and tools to support development, test and delivery.

• Manage the relationship and the performance of contractors and vendors.

• Manage the relationship with academia, in particular interims, undergraduate and postgraduate initiatives and sponsorships.

• Help to motivate teams, to provide an appropriate environment to maximise focus , happiness and productivity.

• Support the CTO in managing Product Engineering financials; planning and budgeting, cost tracking and salary reviews.

• Support the CTO in modelling engineering capacity and rationalizing the financial implications required to achieve growth targets.

First and foremost, we offer more than just a job; What we offer:

• Awesome colleagues and a social working environment

• Be a key part in an exciting international growth journey

• International and open working atmosphere

• Great location in central Copenhagen

• Lots of team and community events

• Lunch, drinks and healthy snacks

Company Values

Scale

• Work smarter to grow our business on all levels

Authenticity

• We do what we say and say what we do

UMPF!

• Go beyond what's expected to achieve success

Collaborate

• The best results are achieved together

Empower

• Encourage people to make impactful decisions

About Planday

We want to improve the lives of more than 1 billion shift workers across the globe with a workforce management platform which enables both employee managers and their employees to work together easily, with greater transparency and more open communication. By digitising and automating administrative tasks and integrating multiple business and people-focussed systems in one place, we believe we can help everyone save time and money so they can focus instead on the things that really matter.

Founded in a Copenhagen bar in 2004 by two hospitality workers who wanted to make shift rostering easier, Planday is one of the fastest growing VC-backed technology companies in Europe. In the last year alone, we have almost doubled our number of employees throughout the world and we want to continue to expand. Our latest series C funding round was backed by some of the biggest VCs in Europe, including Creandum, IdInvest and SEB Equity – the investors behind Spotify and iZettle.

Our roots are Danish, but our mindset and know-how is global. Planday’s team spans 30 nationalities across five offices – Copenhagen, London, Oslo, Hamburg and LA. We live and breathe for our customers’ success, while retaining a Scandinavian approach to work-life balance. We celebrate each other’s achievements and differences while encouraging each other to learn and grow together. This is how we became the leading workforce scheduling platform used by SME and enterprise businesses globally.

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