Development Team Lead - Data and Performance

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 andteams—we'rehelping 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- andthe best clients wantto work with.

Recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive yearsand more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024

Scotland

ISawards, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us.

AtDayshape, 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'rea friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by ourvaluesand a shared commitment to success. Ifyou’reready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, thenlet’stalk.

Dayshapeis making a significant investment in our product portfolio and defining how both AI and large volume work fit in the critical role of resource management.

We seekingto introduce new ways of accessing,usingand interacting with the data that matters to our customers, enabling extraordinary business results.

That’swhere you come in.

• Our tech leads are great with people, helping to elevate their team and the work they do, as well as being able to get stuck in technically. This role is a mix of technical and people leadership, leading a small senior team focussed on structural change of the application to meet our scaling needs.
  
  The primary focus will be on technical planning and delivery with about 25% of your time spent line-managing. In this role you will:
• Manage newly forming team of engineers focused on our data architecture and application optimization, ensuring we can make our application data responsive to customer needs, via our reporting, LLM and API uses.
• Provide expertise and input into our architecture, design, and technology decisions.
• Work with product & development managers and SRE tech-lead to break down strategic company scaling objectives into a well-defined and deliverable set of roadmap projects.
• Work as part of the Engineering leadership team to identify, set, and drive objectives and key results.
• Champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork.

• Direct line management experience is not essential, but you must be able to demonstrate experience as a leader. Emotional intelligence, cross team collaboration as well as the ability to help align team priorities are key parts of this role.
• You are a strong back-end developer experienced in operating within our tech stack, which is .NET (framework & Core), Azure SQL Server and the Azure platform.
• You are experienced at implementing architectural change within established code bases and passionate about the benefits this can bring to a business.
• Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks, solving tricky problems and tackling risks
• Knowledgeable about a range of technologies, and quick to learn
• Motivated by learning new things and using those to make a positive difference
• Comfortable challenging and raising issues at any level
• Great at asking awkward questions, kindly
• An excellent, kind, and supportive communicator (who often finds yourself un-crossing wires between your colleagues)
• Able to consider the…