Tech Lead - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Dayshape

Dayshape

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About us:

We're an award-winning enterprise software scale-up with high ambitions for growth. Being recognised as Scotland's fastest growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards three years in a row shows that we are on the right track

Dayshape is an advanced resource management solution, incorporating AI and intelligent automation to help professional services firms optimise their workforce like never before.

It's built to handle large, complex, and ever-changing requirements with ease.

As a company, we live our values every day and we're committed to making sure our friendly and inclusive environment grows with us.

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.

That's where you come in.

As a Tech Lead, you will work collaboratively with the rest of our cross-functional team to plan and deliver new features and enhancements.

You will take ownership of features and technical initiatives and make sure they are successful

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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 when needed. As such, the role is a mix of technical and people leadership, with leading the team being the primary focus and about 25% of your time spent on hands-on development once you have settled in.

In this role you will:

Manage a single software engineering team, line managing 26 software engineers and QAs, including 1:1s and supporting personal development planning.
Work as part of the Engineering leadership team to identify, set, and drive objectives and key results
Support, mentor, and coach other members of the team
Champion our culture of learning, development, crosscompany collaboration and teamwork
Interview and hire additional software engineers
Help us manage the entire lifecycle of features and product releases
Work with your team's product manager (and the rest of the team) on prioritisation, scoping of product features
Collaborate across teams to improve our software development, quality, and release processes and practices
Analyse, code, test, and release new product features, enhancements, and improvements
Enhance product scalability, performance, maintainability, configurability, and internationalisation
Provide expertise and input into our architecture, design, and technology decisions
Assist with technical, functional and design activities with our professional services team, product managers, and customers

About you:

Experience in people management and leading on technical projects
Strong fullstack developer, ideally closely matching our tech stack. The team you will be leading will operate across the tech stack, which is.

Net + Core, SQL Server side and a browser based single page web app (HTML/CSS/JS, using a mix of and AngularJS).

Great at asking awkward questions, kindly
Passionate about creating a product you can be proud of
Motivated by learning new things and using those to make a positive difference
Comfortable challenging and raising issues at any level
Knowledgeable about a range of technologies, and quick to learn
Able to zeroin on bugs without looking at the code, based on your experience and intuition
An excellent, kind, and supportive communicator (who often finds yourself uncrossing wires between your colleagues)
Able to consider the broader impact of your design and coding decisions and those of others
Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks, solving tricky problems and tackling risks
Used to working with agile development teams on large software products

Bonus points if you have:

Experience with the rest of our stack: RabbitMQ, SignalR and/or Microsoft Azure
Worked with complex web interfaces with large DOM views
Worked in (or with) the Professional Services industry

What you'll get:

Starting salary between £65,000 and £80,000, depending on experience
Earning potential in the Tech Lead salary band up to £100,000
Investment in your learning and development to support your career progression (as a Tech Lead and beyond), including a min. £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality
Income protection and death in service cover
Matched 5% autoenrolment workplace pension scheme
EMI options as part of our employee share options scheme
Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
Innovation Week twice a year a chance