Employee scheduling and time tracking for mid-market workforce management
Shiftbase operates a monolithic PHP/Laravel stack that handles employee scheduling and time registration for European mid-market companies. Active modernization efforts—decomposing the monolith into services, optimizing query performance, and building observability—signal engineering-driven product evolution. Sales and marketing hiring outpaces engineering roles, suggesting a shift toward sales-led growth alongside platform maturation.
Shiftbase develops workforce management software focused on employee scheduling and time tracking. The product replaces error-prone manual processes with digital workflows, improving both operational efficiency and employee engagement across scheduling and time registration. Founded in 2011 and based in the Netherlands, the company operates at 51–200 employees and sells primarily into mid-market organizations across the Netherlands and Germany. The platform integrates with enterprise systems including NetSuite and HubSpot.
Shiftbase runs on PHP, Laravel, Symfony, and TypeScript, with SQL databases, Playwright for testing, and integrations to Customer.io, NetSuite, and HubSpot. The company is actively adopting TypeScript.
Engineering priorities include modernizing the monolithic codebase into modular services, optimizing query performance on large datasets, enhancing system observability, and improving backend scalability. Product-side focus is reducing time-to-value and improving customer activation.
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