Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £85,000 to £100,000.
Roughly 70/30 backend against frontend, in Node and TypeScript with Spring Boot in the mix, on AWS with Lambda, SQS, ECS Fargate and CloudFront. Current work is crypto debit card payments, so payment integrations and settlement rather than dashboards. Postgres, DynamoDB and Mongo all in use, with Docker and Kubernetes around them.
Looking forTheir employer merged and the combined team is fragmented across three countries with no salary progression available. Wants a startup where the culture actually coheres. Rules out gambling and alcohol, and will not go fully remote.
How they came acrossNot in a rush and said as much, which read as honest rather than a negotiating line. Competent with AI tooling and careful not to overclaim how far that goes.
Node.js, TypeScript, Spring Boot · PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB · AWS Lambda, SQS, ECS Fargate · Docker, Kubernetes, React
Six employers over 11 years, from a government technology agency through co-founding a business and a global consultancy of more than 700,000 staff, into edtech and crypto fintech in London. Average tenure 2 years 4 months, longest just under 10 years.
No gambling or alcohol, nothing with a frontend title, and no fully remote setup. 1 month notice.
Masters in Information Systems Management and Innovation from a Russell Group university.
Node and TypeScript on AWS, event driven, on a membership e-commerce platform turning over £60m. The numbers they can point at are a 6 to 8% conversion uplift from experimentation work and a 30% cut to the codebase. Runs the full serverless kit, Lambda, ECS, EventBridge, SQS and DynamoDB with Terraform, plus A/B testing and feature flagging through LaunchDarkly.
Looking forRedundancy at the end of July after 3 and a half years, treated as a reset rather than a setback. Work-life balance is the priority and founding-engineer hours are out. Remote or light hybrid, and open to moving elsewhere in Europe.
How they came acrossProduct-minded, works close to design and data, and frames the work by what moved rather than what shipped. Already in processes elsewhere, so timing matters more than usual here.
Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS · React, Next.js · AWS Lambda, ECS, EventBridge, DynamoDB · Terraform, Datadog, Playwright
Three employers in 6 years, from a music technology startup through an events platform to senior engineer at a membership e-commerce business. Average tenure 2 years 3 months, longest 3 years 10 months.
Cannot commit to weekly London commutes or consecutive days in the office, and will not take a founding-engineer role. Already in other processes, so move quickly.
Degree-level study in UI and UX design.
TypeScript and Node on AWS with PostgreSQL underneath and event-driven architecture around it. Four years at a used-car marketplace building customer-facing product, workflow automation and the internal operational tooling, and designing the data models other people build on. Lambda, ECS, EventBridge and SQS, deployed through Terraform, with Go and NestJS in the kit too.
Looking forThe product has been in maintenance mode for 9 months with nothing new being built, and that is the whole reason they are looking. Wants end-to-end ownership and to ship often. Needs skilled worker sponsorship.
How they came acrossSenior in their team and mentors the juniors. Took the time to understand a role properly once we gave them the context, rather than judging it from the advert.
TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Go · PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Kafka · AWS Lambda, ECS, EventBridge, SQS, Terraform
6 employers over 10 years, from Nigerian e-commerce and fintech startups to a UK mobility marketplace where they have been 4 years. Average tenure 1 year 7 months, longest stint 3 years 8 months.
Needs skilled worker sponsorship. We spoke to them in September 2026, so this one is current and does not need re-checking.
Bachelors in computer engineering.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank