Software Engineer

Summary

Join Dayshape, an award-winning software scale-up, as a Software Engineer to contribute to the development of their AI-powered resource management platform. You will be responsible for developing new features and enhancements, writing complex back-end business logic in C#, and creating UI components using JavaScript and Vue.js. The role requires experience in building technically complex products, proficiency in JavaScript and C#, and a passion for delivering high-quality software. Dayshape offers a competitive salary, professional development opportunities, generous benefits, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience in a similar commercial software engineer role building technically complex products
• A confident JavaScript developer, happy writing both vanilla JS and modern frameworks (ideally Vue.js)
• Experienced in C# or a similar language
• Experience working in a product development environment
• Comfortable writing unit tests and end-to-end automated tests
• Passionate about shipping a product you can be proud of
• Well-informed on good software development principles, and able to implement them pragmatically
• An excellent and kind communicator, able to raise awkward questions kindly, and to recognise when you need help
• Experience 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

Responsibilities

• Develop new features and enhancements
• Write complex, performant back-end business logic in C#
• Write and upgrade UI components using JavaScript and Vue.js
• Your time will be roughly evenly split between the front end and back-end code
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with agile development teams on large products
• Experience working with complex web interfaces with large DOM views
• Experience with the rest of our stack: RabbitMQ, SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Azure
• Experience working in (or with) the Professional Services industry
• Experience writing tests in Jest, Cypress or Playwright

Benefits

• Starting salary between £38,000 and £44,000, 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 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
• 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