Software Engineer Placement (9-Months) in Edinburgh

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 organisations to achieve extraordinary results. Our 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 organisations and careers for the long term. 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 places where top talent wants to work - and the best clients want to work with. Recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024 ScotlandIS awards, 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

This role is a 9-month placement as a Software Engineer within our product development teams.

What you’ll do:

• Code new features and enhancements
• Work as part of our engineering team to enhance scalability, performance, maintainability, configurability, and internationalisation
• 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
• Work on a wide variety of different challenges across the product and codebase
• Help solve internal problems which prevent us going faster with innovative software solutions
• Get some exposure across our entire tech stack, which covers in no particular order HTML/CSS, JavaScript, C#, .Net, Vue.js, AngularJS, Jest, Playwright, MS Azure

About you:

• Passionate about creating a product you can be proud of
• Excited to learn what it takes to deliver quality software and what continuous improvement looks like
• Able to demonstrate good knowledge of software development practices and principles
• Able to adapt in changing circumstances and ready to learn quickly
• Able to consider the broader impact of your design and coding decisions
• Interested in a range of technologies and quick to learn
• Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks and solving tricky problems
• An excellent communicator, willing to share your opinions and ask questions

Bonus points if you have:

• Built projects using Vue.js applications or similar frameworks or using any of the rest of our stack: JavaScript, .Net (+Core), SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Azure

What you’ll get:

• Starting salary of £34,226
• Dedicated mentor who has walked the path you’re starting on
• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development (pro-rata)
• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays)
• Innovation Week - a chance to experiment and work off-project
• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
• Weekly 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, who are excited about growing our company

Should you continue at Dayshape in a permanent role, you will also get:

• Paid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Private healthcare
• Income protection and death in service cover
• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
• Holidays increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days

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’re ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, able to work on a hybrid basis between home and our Haymarket office. We don't mandate required office days, but most of the team enjoy working from the office 2-3 days a week to connect with their team and other Dayshapers, to make use of space, and for meetings and collaboration.

Join the team!

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it’s a 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, and how our product develops to meet our customers’ needs. We're doing well, but there's lots more to do in order to maintain the high bar and pace that we've set. Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to see your application.

The closing date for this role is Sunday 22nd March at 9am BST. 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. Unfortunately, we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.