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About Us
We're Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organizations to achieve extraordinary results.
Our enterprise platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced 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 and teams—we're helping our customers build strong organizations and careers for the long term.
Why our customers love Dayshape:
We help professional firms optimize 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 be where top talent wants to work and where top clients want to buy from.
Recognized as Scotland's fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years, we've consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we're always looking for like-minded people to join us.
At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you're ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that's reimagining resource management, then let's talk.
About The Role
We've come a long way in a short time, but there's still so much more we can do. We have grand ambitions to make Dayshape the most scalable, flexible and rapid to deploy solution on the market, and we're not there yet. That's where you come in.
As part of our Engineering team, you will be delivering UI-driven features that help our customers schedule thousands of hours of work with ease. You will help us build scalability, resilience and high performance into the product, all while keeping an eye on UX, accessibility and aesthetics.
What You'll Do
Develop new features and enhancements
Write and upgrade UI components using JavaScript and Vue.js
Work with the rest of our engineering team to enhance scalability, performance and maintainability
Support our culture of learning, development and teamwork
Be involved in the entire life-cycle of features, including idea creation, deployment, and longer term updates and enhancements
About you
Demonstrable experience in a similar commercial software engineer role
A confident JavaScript developer, happy writing both vanilla JS and modern frameworks (ideally Vue.js)
Experience working in a product development environment
Comfortable writing unit tests and end-to-end automated tests
Passionate about shipping a product you can be proud of
Well-informed on good software development principles, and able to implement them pragmatically
An excellent and kind communicator, able to raise awkward questions kindly, and to recognise when you need help
Experience collaborating with others - you will be working closely with engineering, product and QA colleagues
Adaptable, and motivated to try/learn new things
Great at breaking down large tasks into manageable chunks
Able to see the Big Picture - how your decisions affect your colleagues and your users
Bonus points if you have
Experience working with agile development teams on large products
Experience in C# or a similar language
Experience working with complex web interfaces with large DOM views
Experience writing tests in Jest, Cypress or Playwright
Experience with the rest of our stack: SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Azure
Experience working in (or with) the Professional Services industry
What you'll get
Starting salary between £39,898 and £46,500, 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
Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
Enhanced family leave policies
Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality
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
Innovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-project
Volunteering time - up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
Regular All 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, board games and at-home cocktail classes!
Genuinely nice, smart people to work with
About the Company
Dayshape delivers leading resource management software designed to help organizations achieve extraordinary results. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, Dayshape is the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights—enabling customers to elevate resource management into a strategic function. With built-in security, Dayshape is trusted by top 100 firms worldwide. We’re proud to be defining the future of AI-powered resource management.
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