Software Engineer

About Us

We'reDayshape-an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firmsglobally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combinesadvanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth,powering confident decisions,and ensuring satisfied clients andteams-we'rehelping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.

Why our customers loveDayshape:

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.

• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.

• We empower firms to become the placeswhere top talent wants to work- andthe bestclients wantto work with.

Recognised as Scotland's fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive yearsand more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024ScotlandISawards, we've consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact-and we're always looking for like-minded people to join us.

AtDayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an importantdriving force in helping us to do just that.We'rea friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team-driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. Ifyou'reready to join a fast-growing, high-impact companythat'sreimagining resource management, thenlet'stalk.

About the role

We'vecome a long way ina short time, butthere'sstill so much more we can do. We have grand ambitions to makeDayshapethe mostadvancedresource planning tool on the market.That'swhere you come in.

As part of our Engineering team, your key areas of focus will be enhancing product scalability and usability, helping consistently deliver features that support our customers' success. As a software engineer, you will work collaboratively with the rest of our cross-functional team to plan and deliver new features and enhancements.

Whatyou'lldo

• Develop new features and enhancements

• Work as part of our engineering team to enhance quality, scalability, performance, maintainability, configurability, and usability

• Be involved in the entirelife cycleof features, including idea creation, deployment, andlonger-termupdates and enhancements

• Work on a wide variety of different challenges across the product and codebase

• Support our culture of learning,developmentand teamwork

About you

• You will be an experiencedback-end C front-end JSdeveloper, but with somegood experienceacross both front end andback endtechnologies. Our tech stack is based around.Net(framework and Core)andVue.js, so a willingness to work across the tech stack isa must.

• Have experience of using automated testing to prove that everything you do is of a high degree of quality.

• You will be passionate about creating a product you can be proud of.

• Working closely with others will be second nature to you, collaborating closely with your engineering colleagues, along with developing relationships with our product and implementation teams.

• Great at asking awkward questions, kindly

• Motivated by learning new things and using those to make a positive difference

• Comfortable challenging and raising issues at any level

• Knowledgeable about a range of technologies, and quick to learn others

• Able to zero-in on bugs without looking at the code, based on your experience and intuition

• An excellent, kind, and supportive communicator (who often finds yourself un-crossing wires between your colleagues)

• Able to consider the broader impact of your design and coding decisions and those of others

• Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks, solving trickyproblemsand tackling risks

• Used to working with agile development teams on large software products

Bonus points if you have

• Worked with Vue.js,.NetCore, Message Queuing Systems such as Azure Service Bus, SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Azure

• Worked in (or with) the Professional Services industry

Whatyou'llget

• Starting salary between £39,900and £46,000, depending on experience

• Earning potential in the Software Engineer salary band up to £48,500

• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development

• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days

• Paidfour weeksabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement

• Enhanced family leave policies
• Private medical insurance, including dental and vision benefits
• Income protection and death in service cover

• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme

• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
• Volunteering time - up to 20 hours a yeartoparticipatein volunteer work

• RegularAll Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication

• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, boardgamesand at-home cocktail classes!

• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company

Working Details

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be flexible around this, just let us know.

We'reideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, thoughwe'reopen to the possibility of this being a remote role (as long asyou'rein the UK).We'remaking the most of hybrid working, so youwon'tneed to come into the office everyday (unless you want to!).

We don't mandate required office days, but we find that most of the team enjoy working from the office 2-3 days a week to connect with their team and other Dayshapers and to make use of space, and for meetings and collaboration.

Join the team!

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believeit'sa huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background.

This is your opportunity to really influence how we get things done, andhow ourproduct develops to meet our customer's needs.We'redoing well, butthere'slots more to doin order tomaintainthe high bar and pace thatwe'veset.

If your experienceisn'tan exact match for this job description, but you have transferrable skills/experience that you think would be a great fit, please outline this in a cover letter.Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like somethingyou'dlike to be part of,we'dlove to see your application.

Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us beforehand