Development Team Lead

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 our valuesand a shared commitment to success. Ifyou’reready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’sreimagining resource management, thenlet’stalk.

We'vecome a long way ina short time, butthere'sstill so much more we can do. We have grand ambitions to make Dayshape the most usable,scalable,flexible and rapid to deploy solution on the market, andwe’renot there yet.

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 product engineering team that willoperatein a particular area of the product.

We are hiring for across several teams, so the team’s area of focus will differ. We also tend to review focus areas at least once a year, so this will change throughout your career  examples, the focus areas could span a new module for the product, several more focused features, or continuing a significant migration in our UI.

As a Tech Lead, you will lead, and work collaboratively with, yourcross-functional team to plan and deliver new features and enhancements. You will take ownership of features and technical initiatives and make sure they are successful.

The time split between technical planning and delivery,and line-management will depend on the size of your team. Initially, as we build up the teams, you will be more hands on,adjusting the split as the size of the team increases.

Some of the teams will naturally be smaller than others due to the nature of the work, so please highlight to us in your application or during the interview process if you have a preference for remaining more-hands on, or if you are happy toadjust your style to the size of the team.

In this role you will:

• Manage asoftware engineering team, line managing2-6software engineers, including 1:1s and supporting personal development planning.
• Provideexpertiseand input into our architecture, design, and technology decisions.
• Work as part of the Engineering leadership team to identify, set, and driveobjectivesand key results.
• Work with your team's product manager (and the rest of the team) on prioritisation, scoping of product features
• Analyse, code, test, and release new product features, enhancements, and improvements
• Assist with technical, functional and design activities with our professional services team, product managers, and customers
• Help us manage the entire lifecycle of features and product releases
• Interview and hireadditionalsoftware engineers
• Champion our culture of learning, development, cross-companycollaborationand teamwork.

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