Dayshape is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Engineer at Dayshape, an award-winning enterprise software company. The role involves enhancing product scalability and usability, working collaboratively with the cross-functional team to plan and deliver new features and enhancements. The company offers benefits such as competitive salary, professional development opportunities, flexible working hours, and wellness programs.

Requirements

• Strong back-end C# developer with some good experience of a modern front-end JavaScript library
• Experience using automated testing to prove that everything you do is of a high degree of quality
• Passionate about shipping a product you can be proud of
• Working closely with others will be second nature to you
• 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

Responsibilities

• Support our product and engineering managers in prioritisation, scoping and leading delivery of product features
• Work as part of our engineering team to enhance quality, scalability, performance, maintainability, configurability, and usability
• Support, mentor, and coach other members of the team
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Worked with Vue.js, .Net Core, RabbitMQ, SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Azure
• Worked in (or with) the Professional Services industry
• Worked with complex web interfaces with large DOM views

Benefits

• Starting salary between £50,000 and £58,500 depending on experience
• Earning potential in the Senior Software Engineer salary band up to £63,500
• 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
• Weekly All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work!
• 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