Software Engineer Placement (9-months)

Dayshape; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Starting salary £34,226

Mentor support

£1,000 annual development budget

33 days holiday (pro-rata)

Innovation Week

Pension 5% match

Team All Hands meetings

Team socials

Job summary

Dayshape, based in Edinburgh, is hiring a Software Engineer for a 9‑month placement. You will join product development teams and code features that scale our AI-powered resource management platform.

The role blends learning and hands‑on work across HTML/CSS, JavaScript, C#, and .Net within a modern tech stack. You’ll work in a hybrid setup from Edinburgh with a dedicated mentor, a competitive starting salary, and a range of professional development benefits.

Qualifications

• Comfortable writing and reasoning through code in at least one programming language; JavaScript and C# are primary.
• Familiar with HTML/CSS basics and web app structure.
• Passionate about building a product you can be proud of and delivering quality software.
• Eager to learn about software development practices and continuous improvement.
• Able to adapt quickly and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Code new features and enhancements.
• Contribute to scalability, performance, and maintainability of the product.
• Collaborate with engineering on end-to-end feature delivery.
• Engage in the full feature life cycle from idea to deployment and updates.
• Tackle diverse challenges across the codebase.
• Help solve internal blockers to speed up delivery.
• Gain exposure to the full stack (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, C#, .Net, Vue.js, AngularJS, Jest, Playwright, Azure).

Skills

JavaScript

C#

HTML/CSS

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Vue.js

.Net

AngularJS

Jest

Playwright

MS Azure

Job description

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 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're helping 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 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 ScotlandIS 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 importantdriving 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.

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. We have a range of product and internal projects which are ideal for someone starting out on their journey as a software professional. That’s where you come in.

This role is a 9-month placement as a Software Engineer within our product development teams.

What you’ll do

• Code new features and enhancements

• Work as part of our engineering team to enhance scalability, performance, maintainability, configurability, and internationalisation

• 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

• Work on a wide variety of different challenges across the product and codebase

• Help solve internal problems which prevent us going faster with innovative software solutions

• Get some exposure across our entire tech stack, which covers in no particular order HTML/CSS, JavaScript, C#, .Net, Vue.js, AngularJS, Jest, Playwright, MS Azure

About you

• Comfortable writing and reasoning through code in at least one programming language — we primarily use JavaScript and C#

• Familiar with the basics of HTML/CSS and how web applications are structured

• Passionate about creating a product you can be proud of

• Excited to learn what it takes to deliver quality software and what continuous improvement looks like

• Able to demonstrate good knowledge of software development practices and principles

• Able to adapt in changing circumstances and ready to learn quickly

• Able to consider the broader impact of your design and coding decisions

• Interested in a range of technologies and quick to learn

• Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks and solving tricky problems

• An excellent communicator, willing to share your opinions and ask questions

Bonus points if you have

• Built projects using Vue.js applications or similar frameworks or using any of the rest of our stack: JavaScript, .Net (+Core), SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Azure

What you’ll get

• Starting salary of £34,226

• Dedicated mentor who has walked the path you’re starting on

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

• (pro-rata) 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays)

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

• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme

• Weekly All 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, board games and at-home cocktail classes!

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

Should you continue at Dayshape in a permanent role, you will also get:

• Paid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement

• Enhanced family leave policies

• Private healthcare

• Income protection and death in service cover

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

• Holidays increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days

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 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 most of the team enjoy working from the office 2-3 days a week to connect with their team and other Dayshapers, to make use of space, and for meetings and collaboration.

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 howour product develops to meet our customers’needs.We'redoing well, butthere'sslots more to doin order tomaintainthe 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.

The closing date for this role is Sunday 18th August at 5pm BST.

*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*

**Unfortunately we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role**