Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £120,000 and above.
Full stack and blockchain, with the blockchain half being real production work: ERC-721 contracts in Solidity on Ethereum and Polygon, NFT minting and marketplace features at scale. Day job is TypeScript with React and Effect TS on the front, Node, NestJS and Kafka behind. Was one of the first hires asked to build and onboard a London engineering team from nothing.
Looking forTheir last company ran out of money and was not straight about the runway, so financial transparency is now the first thing they ask about. Wants product ownership and mentoring, and needs visa sponsorship before a youth mobility visa expires early next year.
How they came acrossProduct-minded in a way that is not always true of blockchain engineers, and the mentoring and team-building read as genuine rather than CV padding. Asked pointed questions about funding, which is fair enough given what happened.
TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS · React, Next.js, Effect TS · Solidity, Ethereum, Polygon · AWS, Docker, Kafka
Five employers over 11 years, starting at a national science research agency and moving through Australian proptech, a music NFT marketplace and blockchain infrastructure into a London fintech. Average tenure 1 year 7 months, longest 3 years 3 months.
Needs sponsorship before a youth mobility visa expires early next year, and will want sight of funding and runway before signing anything. Available now.
Bachelors in Computer Science.
Go and Node behind GraphQL, React and Next on top, all on AWS with Terraform and CDK. Has been quasi-managing the team for the last few months while still shipping, through a period where 50 to 60% of it turned over, and wrote the Q4 and FY27 roadmaps. Goes from frontend down to foundations and platform work, across SaaS, e-commerce and mental health products.
Looking forDoes not want the management track and does not want hierarchy. After small teams running fast with loose roles, ideally Series A, and is relocating to Lisbon, so remote employment from Portugal is the hard constraint.
How they came acrossDescribes themselves as high EQ and it holds up on the call. Wants to be a collaborator rather than a worker and reacts badly to being handed tickets, which they said plainly rather than dressing up.
Go, Node.js, Python, GraphQL, Postgres · React, Next.js, TypeScript · AWS, Terraform, CDK, Lambda
Nine employers over 12 years including a career break, moving from arts and ticketing technology into SaaS, e-commerce and mental health, now a 250-person customer service platform that a large US tech company bought for $1.1bn and later spun back out. Average tenure 1 year 3 months, longest 2 years 4 months.
Relocating to Lisbon, so this only works if you can employ someone remote from Portugal. Also rules out people management and the engineering manager track.
No degree on file. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
Kubernetes, Kafka and Temporal.io in the day job, with Node and TypeScript services on top and a heavy event-driven bias. Led zero-to-one builds end to end, including a telecoms project, before the work fragmented. Comfortable down in the infrastructure layer too, with Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, EKS, K3s and Rancher all in regular use.
Looking forWork has gone from owning big builds to reactive tickets over the last 6 months, and that is the whole reason for looking. Wants architectural ownership at a scale-up as an IC, explicitly not a management track.
How they came acrossPassive rather than desperate, and turned down both roles we put forward because neither was a real step up. Knows what they want, which makes them harder to place and easier to trust.
Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, GraphQL · React, Vue · Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, ArgoCD · Kafka, Neo4j
Four employers over 7 years across travel technology, a database vendor, telecoms infrastructure and hospitality. Average tenure 2 years 1 month, longest 2 years 11 months.
No interest in big corporates, frontend-heavy work or the engineering manager track. 1 month notice.
Masters in Technology Entrepreneurship from a Russell Group 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