Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £120,000 to £150,000.
Leads the fintech team at a Series D SME lending business, 7 reports covering 1 PM, 1 staff engineer, 3 seniors, a mid and a junior, inside an engineering org of around 80. They own the whole payments product roadmap and their team's systems move roughly £80m a day. Python and Rust in production, with Temporal, Kafka, Snowflake, Postgres and Kubernetes on AWS, and they've worked on credit scoring models directly.
Looking forThey want back closer to the code. Happy to keep leading, but less formal people management and more complex technical ownership, at a fast-growing company. Fintech or something mission-driven, and no regular on-site requirement.
How they came acrossThe reason they're going is worth hearing. The cofounder froze quarterly pay reviews and replaced them with lines-of-code metrics, applied retrospectively, which punishes exactly the mentoring and non-coding work their job is made of. They've been absorbing the fallout in standups and are tired of it. Measured about it rather than bitter.
Python, Rust, Django, FastAPI · Kafka, Temporal, Snowflake, PostgreSQL · AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog · TypeScript, React
Started in recruitment and digital before retraining into engineering, then backend and staff roles across a betting platform, a travel marketplace they co-founded and now a Series D fintech. 7 employers, average tenure 2 years.
3 months notice, and they won't touch gambling. They also don't want to be pulled fully out of coding again, so a pure people-management brief will not land.
Masters in computer science with AI from a globally top 100 ranked university. AWS Cloud Essentials and Azure AI Fundamentals.
Built and launched the data platform that feeds property portals at an architecture business with an in-house CMS and data division, live for 3 to 4 months and running clean. Ruby and Rails are their deepest ground, with Python and FastAPI alongside, React and TypeScript on the front, and AWS underneath. Earlier lead roles covered authorization services, payment processing and PSP integration, role-based access control and on-call process.
Looking forNothing's wrong where they are. The platform shipped, that's a natural end point, and they want the next hard problem in a new vertical, ideally fintech or ecommerce, at a smaller company. Hybrid London, happy with 3 days on site.
How they came acrossRelaxed and pragmatic about tooling and about whether the next job is IC or management, which is unusual at this level and useful if you need someone who'll take the shape of the team rather than impose one.
Ruby, Rails, Python, FastAPI · React, TypeScript, Next.js, Vue.js · AWS, GCP, Docker, Postgres · Data pipelines, architecture design
Web developer to senior engineer to architecture and backend lead, across edtech, events, hospitality technology and now proptech. 12 employers, average tenure 11 months, longest 3 years.
12 employers at an average of 11 months is the obvious question to put to them, and they commute into London from well outside it.
Bachelors in mechanical engineering from a Russell Group university.
Stood up the FinOps function from nothing at a cloud-native payments and core banking platform, which is the current job and the problem with it. The 5 years before that were managing SRE and DevOps teams properly, on AWS, GCP, Kubernetes with EKS and GKE, Terraform, ArgoCD and GitOps, with SLI and SLO practice and PagerDuty and OpsGenie incident response behind it.
Looking forThey want back to people management and platform engineering, specifically a platform-as-a-service model. There's no progression where they are and hiring the FinOps team out isn't a business priority, so they're stuck as an IC doing work they didn't choose.
How they came acrossDescribed themselves as left holding the baby on the FinOps work, which tells you both how they talk and how they feel about it. Clear on what their core is and not interested in drifting further from it.
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE · Terraform, Puppet, ArgoCD, GitOps · Python, Bash, Ruby · Grafana, PagerDuty, SLI/SLO
Systems administration into SRE into engineering management, across broadcast, media, retail, identity software and now payments infrastructure. 8 employers, average tenure 1 year 7 months.
£125,000 is a floor they held to when a budget came in at £110,000, and they currently manage nobody, so the last stretch of management experience is a couple of years back.
Bachelors in computer science.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank