Principal Engineer

About the role

As Dayshape continues to expand in the US market, we're growing our Client Integrations capability to support increasingly complex enterprise implementations and strategic customer programmes.

Within this context, the Client Integrations team is focused on delivering robust, scalable, and commercially sound integration solutions that create long-term value for clients and for Dayshape. That's where you come in.

As Principal Engineer, Client Integrations, you'll provide technical consultancy to our US Professional Services team, shape solution design on major client projects, and raise technical capability across the team through mentoring and leadership.

• Provide technical consultancy to the US Professional Services team on product and integration strategy.
• Lead solution design for major US client projects, balancing customer needs with long-term product and delivery sustainability.
• Support client projects to successful outcomes by guiding stakeholders toward the best mutual solution, not simply the fastest requested option.
• Deliver high-quality integration builds for enterprise clients.
• Build and maintain deep expertise across all integration methods supported by the Dayshape product.
• Identify integration capability gaps and provide clear, structured feedback to Product and Engineering teams.
• Mentor teammates and support their technical growth.
• Collaborate effectively across multiple time zones with strong communication, planning, and stakeholder alignment.

• 8+ years of experience delivering complex enterprise integration projects.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality, robust integration solutions.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience using ADF, Databricks, or comparable data‑management tools.
• 5+ years of experience with one or more programming languages, with the ability to investigate and understand existing codebases.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to negotiate outcomes that work for all parties.
• Demonstrated ability to bring clarity and direction in complex, ambiguous situations.
• Strong team player with a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to deliver effectively under pressure while maintaining quality.

• Experience in professional services organisations and/or resource management environments.
• Experience integrating with one or more enterprise systems such as Workday, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics.
• Experience contributing to integration standards, reusable patterns, or engineering best practices across teams.

• Salary: $150,000 - $170,000, dependent on experience
• 31 days' vacation per year, including public holidays, and increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 38 days
• Paid four‑week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits
• Disability and life insurance
• 401k
• At least $1,400 per year to spend on professional and personal development
• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
• Monthly team events (sometimes in‑person, sometimes virtual)
• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company

• This is a full‑time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be flexible around this, just let us know.

• Preferred:
  New Jersey Tri‑state area or Austin, TX.
• We may offer flexibility for exceptional candidates.

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it's a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background.

Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us beforehand.