Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £100,000 to £120,000.
Backend and platform work in TypeScript and Node, almost all of it event driven. Runs Temporal for workflow orchestration and builds on AWS serverless with DynamoDB, EventBridge and SQS behind it, across payments, post-order flows and customer support tooling. Was promoted to staff and asked to go back to senior, because they would rather build product than run a function.
Looking forTheir employer is in financial trouble and they survived one redundancy round, so they are moving on their own terms rather than waiting for the next one. Wants a funded mid-sized business with a co-located engineering team of at least 20 and no micromanagement.
How they came acrossTakes end-to-end ownership seriously and mentors without being asked to. Uses AI tooling heavily day to day and was matter-of-fact about it rather than evangelical, which was refreshing.
TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, DynamoDB · AWS Lambda, ECS, EventBridge, SQS · Temporal, Terraform, AWS CDK
Nine years across 5 employers, opening at a global investment bank of more than 80,000 people and moving through fintech, crypto custody and e-commerce. Average tenure is short at about a year, with a longest stint of just over 2.
3 months notice, and they need a co-located engineering team. No fully distributed setups and nothing under about 20 people.
Masters in Computer Science from a Russell Group university, plus AWS Solutions Architect Associate.
Owns the real-time 911 operations player end to end at a listed public safety technology business, including the visual regression CI pipeline behind it. TypeScript across Angular, React and Node with Postgres, and 6 months of video streaming work on HLS and Shaka. Recent hands-on building with LLMs, RAG and MCP servers rather than just prompting a chatbot.
Looking forWants to build AI-native systems rather than consume AI tooling, which is exactly the direction their current team has been pushed in. Targeting £100k plus equity in London, and will not do more than 4 days onsite.
How they came acrossFirst proper look at the market in years and realistic about timing, including wanting a short break first. Very clear on what the next role has to be, which made the conversation quick.
TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres · Angular, React, Vue.js · AWS, GCP, Docker · LLM, RAG, MCP servers
Eight employers over 10 years, from biomedical robotics research and a ride-hailing platform through a live video commerce business to a listed public safety technology company in London. Average tenure 1 year 3 months, longest 3 years 7 months.
Settled status so no sponsorship needed, but 2 months notice and a hard cap of 4 days onsite. Wants AI core to the product, not bolted on afterwards.
Masters in Computer Science with a software engineering specialism.
TypeScript and Node by default, with Kotlin, Go and Python behind them. The work they talk about most is a US lending business, where they anchored the rebuild of a sprawling codebase into an extensible platform sold as a service to large financial institutions, and were promoted several times doing it. Since then, server-side SDK and extensibility work at a venture backed CRM startup and backend plus data pipeline work at an AI observability company.
Looking forOn the market 8 to 9 months after a manager conflict at the CRM startup escalated to the CTO and there was nowhere else to put them. Wants a product with a clear reason to exist, a settled team and sponsorship, and they are happy in an office 5 days a week.
How they came acrossDeliberate rather than fast, and they know it. Three final rounds with no offer, each time on vague product thinking feedback rather than anything technical, and they raised that themselves rather than waiting for us to find it.
TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Kotlin, Python · PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka, GraphQL · AWS, Kubernetes, microservices
6 employers over 12 years, mostly US fintech and venture backed startups, with a large online retailer early on. Average tenure 1 year 5 months, longest stint 3 years.
Needs sponsorship, has been out of permanent work since the CRM role ended, and won't take Rails or crypto. Walk them through the short tenures.
Bachelors in music and philosophy from a globally ranked university.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank