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 and teams—we’re helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.

• 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 – and the best clients want to work with.

Recognised as Scotland’s fastest‑growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024 Scotland ISA awards, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like‑minded people to join us.

At Dayshape, 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’re a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast‑growing, high‑impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk.

We’ve come a long way in a short time, but there’s still 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, and we’re not 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 will operate in 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 a software engineering team, line‑managing 2‑6 software engineers, including 1:1s and supporting personal development planning.

• Provide expertise and input into our architecture, design, and technology decisions.

• Work as part of the Engineering leadership team to identify, set, and drive objectives and 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 hire additional software engineers.

• 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.

• Strong full‑stack developer, ideally closely matching our tech stack. Suitable candidates will be either experienced generalists or somewhat focused on the front‑end part of our tech stack. Our standard tech stack is .NET (framework & Core), Azure SQL Server and the Azure platform, with a browser‑based SPA UI in Vue.js and…