Back End Developer

Senior Back-end Developer

We're looking for a full-stack developer to help us build, improve and run Smartplan. 

We believe in finding simple solutions to benefit our customers in their working lives. We believe that saying no and descoping can be better than more developing hours. We always look for solutions that are easy to add, maintain and develop. 

We don't do custom development for our customers. We only work on our own product. You will too. This also means no time-tracking, no deadlines and no late nights.

If you are into making a difference with code and you thrive on finding solutions together with a small team? This job is for you.

About Smartplan

Smartplan is 10 years old (wow, time moves fast). We're a SaaS company. Smartplan is a user-friendly, low-priced workforce management tool. It helps small to medium size businesses with staff scheduling, time attendance, salary, communication with employees, time off and absence etc. We have been profitable from the beginning. We have no investors to answer to. We decide what we want to work on and how we want to work. 

We're a small team, just the way we like it.

• 3 full time co-founders. (1 dev, 1 designer, 1 marketing)
• 2 full time customer success / marketing
• 2 students customer support
• 1 part-time mobile app developer
• 1 full time full stack developer.

We have an office in Aarhus, Denmark where we sometimes meet, but most of us work remotely (using Basecamp and Slack). Most of our communication is async written communication and we keep meetings to a minimum. We believe this is the best way to work and have a calm but productive work environment without too many distractions and interruptions.

What you will be working on

At Smartplan we believe the Customer Experience is the most important growth factor for our business. Everything we do is about improving that.

What we work on always aligns with the struggle and the job customers hire our product to do for them. Making this easier, better, faster, efficient and painless is what we care most about.

We need your help doing this.

With your experience in Python/Django, MySQL and DevOPS, you will work with our CTO to implement new features and improve on old ones, optimize performance and keep our product fast.

What we expect from you

• You have experience building web apps. Our product is built in Python/Django with a "fat" backend and a "thin" front end. We are growing and we need to improve our DB performance. You have experience in identifying improvements to our DB and you have the skills to implement these improvements in Django.
• You can write and express yourself. Most of our communication is written and async. So you should be comfortable expressing yourself in clear and long-form writing. We also use video meetings to do quick 1-1s if things need to be hashed out or discussed in closer collaboration. Therefore it is important you are fluent in written and spoken English.
• You are pragmatic and self-driven. You like to approach things in a pragmatic way. Finding simple solutions to complex problems. You are comfortable proposing solutions and being proactive. You can self govern and structure work.
• You are located in CET (+/- 2 hours)

What we offer

• 37 hours work week. No overtime work is expected. We respect that you have more in life than work.
• Remote culture. We have an office in Aarhus you can use, but we work from wherever we want. We have people in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Berlin and Hungary.
• Salary. We offer a starting rate of €6-7000 / month. Hours are negotiable.