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, you will be delivering UI-driven features that help our customers schedule thousands of hours of work with ease. You will help us build scalability, resilience and high performance into the product, all while keeping an eye on UX, accessibility and aesthetics.
What you’ll do
Develop new features and enhancements
Write complex, performant frontend business logic in JavaScript
Write and upgrade UI components using JavaScript and Vue.js
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
Several (3+) years of commercial software engineering experience
A confident JavaScript developer, happy writing both vanilla JS and modern frameworks (Vue.js in particular)
Experience working in a product development environment
Comfortable writing unit tests and end-to-end automated tests
Passionate about shipping a product you can be proud of
Well-informed on good software development principles, and able to implement them pragmatically
An excellent and kind communicator, able to raise awkward questions kindly, and to recognise when you need help
Experience collaborating with others - you will be working closely with engineering, product and QA 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 agile development teams on large products
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), Java, RabbitMQ, SQL Server, and/or Microsoft Azure
Experience working in (or with) the Professional Services industry
What you’ll get
Starting salary between £38,000 and £44,000, depending on experienceEarning potential in the Software Engineer salary band up to £48,500At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development33 days’ holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 daysPaid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlementEnhanced family leave policiesPrivate healthcare and rewards through VitalityIncome protection and death in service coverMatched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension schemeAccess to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling serviceInnovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-projectWeekly All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communicationTime 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