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.
Why our customers love Dayshape:
1. We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.
2. We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.
3. 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 important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our 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
Dayshape is making a significant investment in our product portfolio and defining how both AI and large volume work fit in the critical role of resource management. As part of that we are looking for a highly experienced software architect to join our team.
We seeking to introduce new ways of accessing, using and interacting with the data that matters to our customers, enabling extraordinary business results. That’s where you come in.
What you’ll do
4. Analysing existing systems against roadmap requirements
5. Defining key architectural solutions for optimal delivery of data
6. Building security and privacy in from the start
7. Delivering and reviewing concrete cloud-based solutions
About you
8. You are a strong back-end developer experienced in operating within our tech stack, which is .NET (framework & Core), Azure SQL Server and the Azure platform.
9. You are experienced at implementing architectural change within established code bases and passionate about the benefits this can bring to a business.
10. Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks, solving tricky problems and tackling risks
11. Knowledgeable about a range of technologies, and quick to learn
12. Experienced in a broad range of database and search technologies (such as lucene, elastic search, nosql, mssql)
13. A great collaborator with strong communication skills
Bonus points if you have
14. Experience of working with Azure Cognitive Search
15. Experience of working with Fabric or similar data pipelines
16. Experience with MS SQL views
What you'll get
17. Salary £55,000-£70,000 dependent on experience
18. At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
19. 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
20. Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
21. Enhanced family leave policies
22. Private medical insurance, including dental and vision benefits
23. Income protection and death in service cover
24. Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
25. Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
26. Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
27. Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
28. 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!
29. Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company
Working Details
This is a full-time role ( 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, to make use of space, and for meetings and collaboration. We are open to the possibility of this being a remote role, as long as you are based in the UK.