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:

• 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 important driving 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 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.

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 Our tech leads are great with people, helping to elevate their team and the work they do, as well as being able to get stuck in technically. This role is a mix of technical and people leadership, leading a small senior team focussed on structural change of the application to meet our scaling needs. The primary focus will be on technical planning and delivery with about 25% of your time spent line-managing. In this role you will:

• Manage newly forming team of engineers focused on our data architecture and application optimization, ensuring we can make our application data is responsive to customer needs, via our reporting, LLM and API uses.
• Provide expertise and input into our architecture, design, and technology decisions.
• Work with product & development managers and SRE tech-lead to break down strategic company scaling objectives into a well-defined and a deliverable set of roadmap projects.
• Work as part of the Engineering leadership team to identify, set, and drive objectives and key results.
• Champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork.

About You

• Direct line management experience is not essential, but you must be able to demonstrate experience as a leader. Emotional intelligence, cross team collaboration as well as the ability to help align team priorities are key parts of this role.

Bonus points if you have

• Experienced in a broad range of database and search technologies (such as Lucene, Elastic Search, NoSQL, MSSQL)
• Experience of working with Azure Cognitive Search
• Experience of working with Fabric or similar data pipelines
• Experience with MS SQL views

What You'll Get

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 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 this being a remote role, as long as you are based in the UK.

Join the team! Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it's a 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 shape how our product performs. We're doing well, but there's lots more to do in order to maintain the high bar and pace that we've set.

Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like something you'd like to be part of, we'd love to see your application. The deadline for applications is Friday 13th February 2026 at 12pm . Initial phone calls will be conducted around these dates, so it won't be long before you hear back from us.

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