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 firmsglobally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organizations to achieve extraordinary results.Our enterprise 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''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 importantdriving force in helping us to do just that. We''re a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our

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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 enhancementsWrite and upgrade UI components using JavaScript and Vue.jsWork with the rest of our engineering team to enhance scalability, performance and maintainabilitySupport our culture of learning, development and teamworkBe involved in the entire life-cycle of features, including idea creation, deployment, and longer term updates and enhancementsAbout you

Demonstrable experience in a similar commercial software engineer roleA confident JavaScript developer, happy writing both vanilla JS and modern frameworks (ideally Vue.js)Experience working in a product development environmentComfortable writing unit tests and end-to-end automated testsPassionate about shipping a product you can be proud ofWell-informed on good software development principles, and able to implement them pragmaticallyAn excellent and kind communicator, able to raise awkward questions kindly, and to recognise when you need helpExperience collaborating with others - you will be working closely with engineering, product and QA colleaguesAdaptable, and motivated to try/learn new thingsGreat at breaking down large tasks into manageable chunksAble to see the Big Picture - how your decisions affect your colleagues and your usersBonus points if you have

Experience working with agile development teams on large productsExperience in C# or a similar languageExperience working with complex web interfaces with large DOM viewsExperience writing tests in Jest, Cypress or PlaywrightExperience with the rest of our stack: SQL Server, and/or Microsoft AzureExperience working in (or with) the Professional Services industryWhat you’ll get

Starting salary between £39,898 and £46,500, depending on experienceEarning potential in the Software Engineer salary band up to £48,500At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development33 days'' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 daysPaid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlementEnhanced family leave policiesPrivate healthcare and rewards through VitalityIncome protection and death in service coverMatched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension schemeAccess to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling serviceInnovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-projectVolunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer workRegular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communicationTime 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 companyWorking 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 everyday (unless you want to!).We don''t mandate required office time, but we find that most of the team enjoy working from home 3-4 days a week, and come into our office to connect with each other, make use of space, and for meetings.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.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.We are also currently hiring across the Engineering department, with roles at different levels - all open opportunities can be found on our careers page:

https://dayshape.com/careers/The deadline for applications is 5pm BST on Monday 4th August with interviews taking place over the following couple of weeks.*Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us ..... full job details .....