Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £120,000 to £175,000.
Three years in the defence practice at a US data and AI platform company, as both IC and team lead. Current project integrates equipment and personnel data into a single military readiness view, and the work spans agentic workloads, LLM application development, data modelling, streaming pipelines and the front-end apps on top. Python, PySpark, TypeScript and SQL, with Ontology SDK and Apollo stack management, plus RAG architectures, embeddings and multimodal entity extraction.
Looking forThey want broader ownership and to see what they build actually used at scale rather than shipped and shelved. Open to travel and to roles spread across Europe, and they'd move quickly.
How they came acrossCame into engineering from clinical medicine, having been a foundation doctor in the NHS, and led enterprise cloud migration and AI tooling adoption across the UK Ministry of Defence. Talks about impact in terms of whether the thing gets used, which is the right instinct for this kind of work.
Python, PySpark, TypeScript, SQL · Apache Spark, ETL/ELT, streaming pipelines · RAG, embeddings, vector search, LLM orchestration · Ontology SDK, Foundry APIs, Apollo
Clinical medicine and university supervision, then three years as a deployment strategist in defence at a US data and AI platform company. 3 employers, average tenure 2 years 7 months, longest 4 years 8 months.
2 weeks notice, so anyone slow will lose them, and their entire commercial engineering career sits inside one company's platform and methodology.
Masters in physiology, development and neuroscience from a leading UK university, and a medical qualification behind it.
Just delivered an early warning and alert system end to end at a UK business lending bank, working directly with financial analysts we'd describe as demanding. Full stack across React, TypeScript and Node with Python and FastAPI behind it, LangGraph for the agent work, AWS Lambda and ECS, and BigQuery, Airflow and PySpark on the data side. Picked up team lead responsibilities there on the strength of delivery and how well they use AI tooling.
Looking forStability and a clear direction. They want to work with the same stakeholders over time rather than rotate, on problems that are defined and on products that actually get used. No more than 2 days in the office.
How they came acrossHigh output and fast at turning a business problem into something that ships, and they held their own with a tough analyst group without losing the delivery focus. What's pushing them out is the consultancy feel of the current setup, being parachuted between projects rather than belonging to a team.
React, TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js · Python, FastAPI, LangGraph · PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Airflow, PySpark · AWS Lambda, ECS, Docker, Kubernetes
Associate software engineer at a global bank, then a large consultancy, a national broadcaster and a travel search company, now forward deployed inside a lending bank. 6 employers, average tenure 2 years, longest 4 years 9 months.
They're leaving a consultancy-shaped role because of stakeholder churn, so another rotating engagement model will not hold them, and they're firm on a maximum of 2 office days.
Bachelors degree in education, with the engineering career built afterwards.
Full stack TypeScript with a geospatial specialism, built over 4 and a half years at the UK Ministry of Defence on geospatial technology and classified work holding DV clearance. React and Node with Python alongside, PostgreSQL with PostGIS and pgvector, Terraform and AWS, and LangGraph and MCP development on the AI side. They were one of 10 engineers at a fintech that got acquired, front-end weighted but full stack when needed.
Looking forA founding engineer seat at an early-stage AI-native company, ideally Y Combinator or Entrepreneur First backed, with mission behind it. Hybrid at 2 to 3 days maximum, and they're specific that fully remote and fully on-site are both out.
How they came acrossThey left in June 2025 to build their own products on the proceeds of the acquisition, spent a year on a voice engagement platform and geospatial analytics, and couldn't close deals as a solo founder. They said that plainly, including the financial pressure that's brought them back to employment. A year of running at your own product tends to show up in how someone works.
TypeScript, React, Node.js, Tailwind · Python, LangGraph, LangChain, RAG, MCP · AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Kafka · PostgreSQL, PostGIS, pgvector
Civil service and pharmaceutical engineering into defence geospatial work, then a fintech through acquisition, then a year founding their own products. 6 employers, average tenure 1 year 2 months, longest 2 years 4 months.
Their expectations have been drifting towards £150,000 for the right role, and the return to employment is driven by money running out rather than a pull towards a particular company, so test commitment.
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