Senior Software Engineer - JavaScript/Vue (UK)

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 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

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, your key areas of focus will be enhancing product scalability and usability, helping consistently deliver features that support our customers' success. As a senior engineer, you will work collaboratively with the rest of our cross-functional team to plan and deliver new features and enhancements. You will take ownership of features and technical initiatives and make sure they are successful, while keeping an eye on UX, accessibility and aesthetics.

What you’ll do

• Support our product and engineering managers in prioritisation, scoping and leading delivery of product features

• Write complex, performant frontend business logic in JavaScript

• Write and upgrade UI components using JavaScript and Vue.js 

• Write automated tests to assure quality (unit and end-to-end testing)

• Support, mentor and coach other members of the team

• 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

• A confident and highly experienced senior JavaScript developer, writing both vanilla JS and modern frameworks (Vue.js in particular)

• Experienced working in Agile teams as part of a product development environment

• Comfortable writing unit tests and end-to-end automated tests

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

• Passionate about shipping a product you can be proud of

• Comfortable challenging and raising issues at any level

• Well-informed on good software development principles, and able to implement them pragmatically

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

• An excellent and kind communicator, able to raise awkward questions kindly, and to recognise when you need help

• Experienced in 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 complex web interfaces with large DOM views

• Experience writing tests in Jest, Cypress or Playwright

• Experience with the rest of our stack: C#, .Net (+Core), SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Azure

• Experience working in (or with) the Professional Services industry

What you’ll get

• Starting salary between £50,000 and £60,000, depending on experience

• Earning potential in the Software Engineer salary band up to £63,650

• 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 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 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, 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, able to work on a hybrid basis between home and our Haymarket office. 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. We are open to considering remote for the right candidate, as long as you are based in the UK.

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 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 something you’d like to be part of, we’d love 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*