Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. Up to £105,000.
Eight years of site reliability engineering, now technical lead on the data platform at an energy technology business, and technical lead on the Kafka platform before that. Runs Kafka clusters on Aiven, builds on AWS, GCP, Databricks and BigQuery, and does infrastructure as code at scale with Terraform and GitHub Actions, with Datadog for observability.
Looking forNot captured in detail. They were open to a voluntary redundancy landing in September and have been talking to us about platform roles.
How they came acrossCame across engaged and positive when we spoke, and had squared the move at home already.
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform · Apache Kafka, Aiven, Databricks, BigQuery · Python, C#, .NET Core · Datadog, GitHub Actions, CI/CD
Six years in forensic technology at a Big Four firm, then seven years at an energy technology business moving from SRE to Kafka platform lead to data platform lead. 2 employers, average tenure 1 year 7 months.
They have an offer in play elsewhere with a start date pencilled for early November, so they may already be off the market.
Masters in mathematics, operational research, statistics and economics from a Russell Group university. AWS Solutions Architect Associate.
Architected a multi-tenant platform serving 13 brands globally at a hosting group, then led the front end team there. JavaScript is the spine of the whole career, Vue and Nuxt, TypeScript, Node with Nest, React, plus Python, and serverless microservice architecture on AWS. They've been building with embeddings, vector search and agentic workflows in their own time and want that to be the job.
Looking forThey want to go deep on AI, either as a senior or staff IC or in engineering leadership, at a product company where they actually ship features. Fully remote, and they're out of work so they can start now.
How they came acrossPragmatic about title and company stage in a way that reads as genuine rather than desperate, and they've clearly been putting the AI work in themselves rather than waiting for an employer to fund it. Called the hosting world a difficult environment and doesn't want to go back to it.
Vue.js, Nuxt, TypeScript, Node.js · React, GraphQL, Postgres · AWS, serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform · Python, embeddings, vector search
Frontend and JavaScript developer into full stack, technical lead and then engineering management, across grocery, cashback, retail, travel technology, luxury fashion and hosting. 13 employers, average tenure 1 year, longest 1 year 8 months.
13 employers averaging a year each with a longest stint of 20 months, and they're currently not working. They rule out hosting and gambling outright.
Masters in computer science. Certified ScrumMaster.
Technical lead at a business lending fintech for nearly 7 years, still writing the code and the tests rather than only reviewing them. Python and Django is the core, with React and TypeScript picked up when delivery needed them, and AI-assisted development including Claude Code already part of how they work. Head of engineering at a graduate careers platform before that, and engineering manager at a healthcare software business, so the management half is real.
Looking forSeven years in and they know the systems, the people and the processes too well. Wants new problems and new faces, with energy tech and monolith-to-services migration both named specifically. Won't do more than 3 days on site.
How they came acrossCalls themselves technology agnostic and the CV backs it, .NET then PHP then Python. Coaches engineers from junior through to senior and talks about that as the point of the job rather than an extra.
Python, Django, Celery, PostgreSQL · React, TypeScript · AWS, Lambda, Docker, Terraform · Claude Code, TDD
6 employers over 18 years, from Polish and French software consultancies into healthcare software, a careers platform and 7 years at a UK fintech. Average tenure 2 years 1 month, longest stint 6 years 10 months.
Won't take pure people management with no code in it, won't take a PHP stack, and won't do more than 3 days on site. Three month notice, and they had another process running when we spoke.
Masters in informatics and geoinformatics.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank