Principal Engineer (US)

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

As Dayshape continues to expand in the US market, we're growing our Client Integrations capability to support increasingly complex enterprise implementations and strategic customer programmes.

Within this context, the Client Integrations team is focused on delivering robust, scalable, and commercially sound integration solutions that create long-term value for clients and for Dayshape. That's where you come in.

As Principal Engineer, Client Integrations, you'll provide technical consultancy to our US Professional Services team, shape solution design on major client projects, and raise technical capability across the team through mentoring and leadership.

What you'll do

• Provide technical consultancy to the US Professional Services team on product and integration strategy.
• Lead solution design for major US client projects, balancing customer needs with long-term product and delivery sustainability.
• Support client projects to successful outcomes by guiding stakeholders toward the best mutual solution, not simply the fastest requested option.
• Deliver high-quality integration builds for enterprise clients.
• Build and maintain deep expertise across all integration methods supported by the Dayshape product.
• Identify integration capability gaps and provide clear, structured feedback to Product and Engineering teams.
• Mentor teammates and support their technical growth.
• Collaborate effectively across multiple time zones with strong communication, planning, and stakeholder alignment.

About you

• 8+ years of experience delivering complex enterprise integration projects.

• Proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality, robust integration solutions.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience using ADF, Databricks, or comparable data management tools.
• 5+ years of experience with one or more programming languages, with the ability to investigate and understand existing codebases.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to negotiate outcomes that work for all parties.
• Demonstrated ability to bring clarity and direction in complex, ambiguous situations.
• Strong team player with a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to deliver effectively under pressure while maintaining quality.

Bonus points if you have

• Experience in professional services organisations and/or resource management environments.
• Experience integrating with one or more enterprise systems such as Workday, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics.
• Experience contributing to integration standards, reusable patterns, or engineering best practices across teams.

What you’ll get

• Salary: $150,000 - $170,000, dependent on experience
• 31 days' vacation per year, including public holidays, and increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 38 days
• Paid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits
• Disability and life insurance
• 401k
• At least $1,400 per year to spend on professional and personal development
• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
• Monthly team events (sometimes in-person, sometimes virtual)
• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company

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.

Location

• Preferred: New Jersey Tri-state area or Austin, TX.
• We may offer flexibility for exceptional candidates.

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 influence how we deliver world-class integration outcomes for our clients and scale our impact in the US market. We're doing well, but there's lots more to do to maintain the high bar and pace 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 31st July 2026, 5:00pm GMT.

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.