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 placeswhere top talent wants to work- andthe bestclients 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

ScotlandISawards, 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’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 Dayshapethe mostusable,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.

As a Tech Lead, you will lead, and work collaboratively with, your cross-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.

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.

• Direct line management experience is not essential,butyou must be able todemonstrateexperienceas a leader. Emotional intelligence,cross team collaborationas well as the abilitytohelp alignteamprioritiesare key parts of this role.

• Strong full-stack developer, ideally closely matching our tech stack.
  
  Suitable candidates will be either experiencedgeneralists orsomewhat focusedon thefront-endpart of our tech stack.
  
  Our standard tech stackis .NET (framework & Core),AzureSQLServerand the Azureplatform, with a browser-based SPA UI in Vue.js and vanilla JS/CSS/HTML.

• Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks, solving…