Dayshape

Development Team Lead

Dayshape
Posted 10/22/2026full-timeUnited KingdomSenior💰 £67,000 - £80,000 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates strong leadership and management capabilities while possessing extensive full-stack development experience, particularly in .NET, Azure, and front-end technologies. Effectively collaborates with cross-functional teams to drive product features and enhancements while fostering a culture of learning and teamwork.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Full-Stack DevelopmentLeadership ExperienceAgile DevelopmentAzure SQL ServerVue.js

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AzureJavaScriptSQLVue.js.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead and collaborate with a cross-functional product engineering team to plan and deliver features and enhancements
  • Own features and technical initiatives and ensure successful delivery
  • Manage and line-manage 2–6 software engineers, including 1:1s and personal development planning
  • Provide expertise and input into architecture, design, and technology decisions
  • Work with the Engineering leadership team to identify, set, and drive objectives and key results
  • Collaborate with the product manager and team on product-feature prioritisation and scoping
  • Analyse, code, test, and release product features, enhancements, and improvements
  • Assist with technical, functional, and design activities involving professional services, product managers, and customers
  • Help manage the lifecycle of features and product releases
  • Interview and hire additional software engineers
  • Champion learning, development, cross-company collaboration, and teamwork
  • Adjust the balance between hands-on technical work and line management as the team grows

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Demonstrable experience as a leader; direct line management experience is not essential
  • Strong full-stack development experience, ideally matching .NET, Azure SQL Server, Azure, Vue.js, vanilla JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
  • Experience as an experienced generalist or with a focus on front-end development
  • Ability to break down large tasks, solve complex problems, and manage risks
  • Knowledge of a range of technologies and ability to learn quickly
  • Motivation to learn and apply new knowledge positively
  • Comfortable challenging and raising issues at any level
  • Excellent, kind, and supportive communication skills
  • Ability to consider the broader impact of design and coding decisions
  • Experience working with agile development teams on large software products
  • Willingness and ability to travel occasionally to the Edinburgh office
  • Must be based in the UK
  • Successful candidate subject to background checks
  • Bonus: knowledge of wider Azure platform services
  • Bonus: experience with complex web interfaces with large DOM views
  • Bonus: experience in or with the Professional Services industry
  • Bonus: experience augmenting team productivity using AI workflows

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • At least £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
  • Enhanced family leave policies
  • Private healthcare and rewards through AXA
  • Income protection and death in service cover
  • Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
  • Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
  • Innovation Week twice a year
  • Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year
  • Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with in-person and virtual options
  • Flexible working hours around 09:00–17:30, Monday to Friday
  • Remote work for candidates based in the UK, with occasional travel to the Edinburgh office
  • Regular All Hands meetings
  • Friendly, inclusive, ambitious team and opportunities to work with smart colleagues

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Hard Skills
.NETAzureJavaScriptCSSHTMLProblem SolvingRisk ManagementFeature DeliveryTechnical ArchitectureSoftware Engineering
Soft Skills
Communication SkillsTeam CollaborationSupportive LeadershipMotivation to LearnIssue Resolution
Tools & Technologies
Azure Platform ServicesAgile MethodologiesProfessional Services ToolsAI Workflows
Industry Keywords
Cross-Functional CollaborationProduct ManagementSoftware Product DevelopmentComplex Web InterfacesDOM Management