Software Engineer - Javascript/Vue (UK)

Dayshape; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

33 days holiday per year

Sabbatical after 5 years

Pension

Job summary

Dayshape is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Edinburgh-area engineering team. You will develop frontend features using JavaScript and Vue.js, ensure code quality with tests, and contribute to scalable, high-performance UI work.

You’ll collaborate with product and QA to deliver reliable features, participate in full lifecycle development, and help maintain a culture of learning and teamwork. Hybrid work within the UK is supported.

Qualifications

• Proficient JavaScript developer with experience in vanilla JS and Vue.js.
• Experience in agile product development teams.
• Comfortable writing unit and end-to-end tests.
• Strong focus on shipping a quality product.
• Able to raise issues constructively and collaborate.
• Familiar with software development best practices and learning pace.

Responsibilities

• Write complex frontend logic in JavaScript.
• Build and upgrade UI components using Vue.js.
• Write automated tests (unit and E2E).
• Enhance scalability, performance and maintainability with the team.
• Support learning, development and teamwork culture.
• Own features from idea to deployment and updates.

Skills

JavaScript

Vue.js

Agile

Testing (unit & E2E)

Code quality

Communication

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Jest

Cypress

Playwright

C#/.Net

SQL Server

Azure

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 our values and a shared commitment to success. Ifyou’reready to join a fast-growing, high-impact companythat’sreimagining resource management, thenlet’stalk.

About the role

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 scalable, flexible and rapid to deploy solution on the market, and we’re not there yet. That’s where you come in.

As part of our Engineering team, your key areas of focus will be enhancing product scalability and usability, helping consistently deliver features that support our customers' success. As a software engineer, you will work collaboratively with the rest of our 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, while keeping an eye on UX, accessibility and aesthetics.

What you’ll do

• Write complex, performant frontend business logic in JavaScript

• Write and upgrade UI components using JavaScript and Vue.js

• Write automated tests to assure quality (unit and end-to-end testing)

• Work with the rest of our engineering team to enhance scalability, performance and maintainability

• Support our culture of learning, development and teamwork

• Be involved in the entire life-cycle of features, including idea creation, deployment, and longer term updates and enhancements

About you

• A confident JavaScript developer, happy writing both vanilla JS and modern frameworks (Vue.js in particular)

• Experienced in working in agile teams as part of a product development environment

• Comfortable writing unit tests and end-to-end automated tests

• Passionate about shipping a product you can be proud of

• Comfortable challenging and raising issues at any level

• Well-informed on good software development principles, and able to implement them pragmatically

• Knowledgeable about a range of technologies, and quick to learn others

• An excellent and kind communicator, able to raise awkward questions kindly, and to recognise when you need help

• Experienced in collaborating with others - you will be working closely with engineering, product and quality engineering colleagues

• Adaptable, and motivated to try/learn new things

• Great at breaking down large tasks into manageable chunks

• Able to see the Big Picture - how your decisions affect your colleagues and your users

Bonus points if you have

• Experience working with complex web interfaces with large DOM views

• Experience writing tests in Jest, Cypress or Playwright

• Experience with the rest of our stack: C#, .Net (+Core), SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Azure

• Experience working in (or with) the Professional Services industry

Whatyou’llget

• Starting salary between £39,900and £46,000, depending on experience

• Earning potential in the Software Engineer salary band up to £48,500

• 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 medical insurance, including dental and vision benefits

• 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

• 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’reideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, thoughwe’reopen to the possibility of this being a remote role (as long asyou'rein the UK).We'remaking the most of hybrid working, so youwon'tneed to come into the office everyday (unless you want to!).

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.

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, andhow ourproduct develops to meet our customer’s needs.We'redoing well, butthere'sslots more to doin order tomaintainthe high bar and pace thatwe'veset.

*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*