Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Dayshape, an award-winning software scale-up, as a Senior Engineer and contribute to the development and enhancement of our AI-powered resource management platform. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team, taking ownership of features and technical initiatives, focusing on scalability and usability. The role involves supporting product and engineering managers, mentoring team members, and participating in the entire feature lifecycle. Dayshape offers a friendly and inclusive work environment with opportunities for professional development and growth. The company is committed to improving people's working lives and is looking for a passionate and skilled individual to join their team. This is a full-time role with flexible working arrangements and a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• A strong back-end C# developer, but with some good experience of a modern front-end JavaScript library
• Our tech stack is based around C# 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
• 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

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

Benefits

• Starting salary between £50,000 and £63,500 depending on experience
• 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
• 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!