Software Engineer

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.

Why our customers love Dayshape:

• 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 Scotland IS 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

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 advanced resource planning tool on the market. That’s where 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.

What you’ll do:

• 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 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.
• Support our culture of learning, development and teamwork.

About you

You will be an experienced back‑end C# or front‑end JS developer, but with some good experience across both front end and back end technologies. Our tech stack is based around .Net (framework and Core) and Vue.js, so a willingness to work across the tech stack is a 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 tricky problems and tackling risks. Used to working with agile development teams on large software products.

Bonus points if you have:

• Worked with Vue.js, .Net Core, Message Queuing Systems such as Azure Service Bus, SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Worked in (or with) the Professional Services industry.

What you’ll get:

• Starting salary between £39,900 and £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.
• Paid four weeks 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, boardgames and 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’re ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, though we’re open to the possibility of this being a remote role (as long as you’re in the UK). We’re making the most of hybrid working, so you won’t need to come into the office every day (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 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 customer’s 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. If your experience isn’t an exact match for this job description, but you have transferable 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 something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to see your application.

The deadline for applications is Monday 22nd December at 12pm.

*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*