Senior Software Engineer (UK)
Description For Senior Software Engineer (UK)
Dayshape, an award-winning software scale-up recognized as Scotland's fastest-growing tech company, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their product development team. The role focuses on enhancing their AI-powered resource management platform used by Big Four and top professional services firms globally. As a senior engineer, you'll work on improving product scalability and usability, writing complex frontend logic in JavaScript and Vue.js, and optimizing large dataset handling. The position offers a competitive salary range of £50,000-£63,500, comprehensive benefits including healthcare and pension, and a strong focus on work-life balance with flexible working arrangements. The company culture emphasizes learning, development, and teamwork, with regular social events and innovation weeks. This hybrid role can be based in Edinburgh or remote within the UK, offering the flexibility to work from home 3-4 days per week. The ideal candidate should be a confident full-stack developer with experience in C#/.Net and modern JS frameworks, possessing strong communication skills and a passion for product development.
Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer (UK)
- Support product and engineering managers in prioritisation, scoping and leading delivery of product features
- Write complex, performant frontend business logic in JavaScript
- Write UI components using Vue.js
- Write and optimise the fetching of large datasets
- Write automated tests to assure quality
- Support, mentor and coach other team members
- Enhance scalability, performance and maintainability
- Be involved in the entire life-cycle of features
Requirements For Senior Software Engineer (UK)
- Confident full-stack developer with C#/.Net & modern JS frameworks (Vue)
- Experience in working in agile teams
- Comfortable writing unit tests and end-to-end automated tests
- Strong debugging skills
- Knowledge of good software development principles
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience in collaborating with others
- Ability to break down large tasks into manageable chunks
- Understanding of how decisions affect colleagues and users
Benefits For Senior Software Engineer (UK)
- Starting salary between £50,000 and £58,500
- £1,000 per year for professional and personal development
- 33 days holiday per year (including bank holidays)
- Four week paid sabbatical in fifth anniversary year
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Private healthcare through Vitality
- Income protection and death in service cover
- Matched 5% pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme and counselling service
- Innovation Week twice a year
- Up to 20 hours volunteer time per year
- Regular team socials
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