Development Team Lead

Dayshape; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Wellbeing programme

Hybrid work model

Salary up to £85,500

Job summary

Dayshape is hiring a Tech Lead in Edinburgh to guide a product engineering team focused on scalable, AI-enhanced resource management platforms. You’ll own features end-to-end, mentor engineers, and influence architecture while collaborating with product managers to shape the roadmap.

You’ll split time between technical planning and delivery, with line-management responsibilities as the team grows. Hybrid working from the UK is supported.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a software engineering team of 2–6 developers.
• Strong grounding in architecture, design decisions, and technical ownership.
• Experience guiding product features from prioritisation to delivery.
• Familiarity with agile development and large-scale web apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team.
• Own features and technical initiatives end-to-end.
• Balance technical work with people management as the team grows.
• Collaborate with product managers to prioritise scope and roadmap.
• Analyze, code, test, and ship new features and improvements.
• Support architects and designers in decisions and reviews.
• Hire additional engineers and promote learning culture.
• Drive objectives and key results with leadership peers.

Skills

Full-stack

Leadership

.NET

Azure

Vue.js

Software architecture

Agile

AI workflows

Tools

Azure platform services

Job description

About Us

We’reDayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firmsglobally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combinesadvanced 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 loveDayshape:

• 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 2024ScotlandISawards, 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 importantdriving 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 companythat’sreimagining resource management, thenlet’stalk.

About the role

We'vecome a long way ina short time, butthere'sstill so much more we can do. We have grand ambitions to makeDayshapethe mostusable,scalable,flexibleand 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.

Whatyou’lldo

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 toidentify, 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
• Assistwith 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.

About you

• Direct line management experience is notessential,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 theAzureplatform, with a browser-based SPA UI in Vue.js and vanilla JS/CSS/HTML.

• Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks, solving trickyproblemsand 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 broader impact of your design and coding decisions and those of others

• Used to working with agile development teams on large software products

Bonus points if youare/have

• Knowledgeableabout widerAzure platformservices.

• Worked with complex web interfaces with large DOM views.

• Worked in (or with) the Professional Services industry.

• Significantly augmented your team’s productivityusing AI workflows.

Whatyou’llget

• Starting salarybetween£67,000and£80,000, dependent on experience, with earning potential in the role up to £85,500.

• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development

• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days

• Paidfour-weeksabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement

• Enhanced family leave policies

• Private healthcare and rewards through AXA

• Income protection and death in service cover

• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme

• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service

• Innovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-project

• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a yeartoparticipatein volunteer work

• RegularAll Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication

• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, boardgamesand at-home cocktail classes!

• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company

Working Details

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.

We’re ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, able to work on a hybrid basis between home and our Haymarket office. We don't mandate required office days, but we find that most of the team enjoy working from the office 2-3 days a week to connect with their team and other Dayshapers and to make use of space, and for meetings and collaboration.We are open to considering remote for the right candidate, as long as you are based in the UK.

Join the team!

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believeit’sa 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.

This is your opportunity to really influence how we get things done, and howwe scale our application architecture to reflect the large client base we have developed.We'redoing well, butthere'sslots more to dotomainthe high bar and pace thatwe'veset.

Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like somethingyou’dlike to be part of,we’dlove to see your application.

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