Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £95,000 to £120,000.
First engineer into an AI compliance platform, now 13 or 14 people, and still the person the codebase runs through. Ships agentic pipelines properly, multi stage classification agents, brand recognition, human feedback loops and Langfuse telemetry, on Python and FastAPI with a Next.js and Cloudflare Workers front. Onboards every new engineer who joins.
Looking forWants commercial exposure, sales, customer discovery, product strategy, because the role has narrowed to engineering as the team has grown. Consumer or B2B2C by preference, early stage, and no five day office.
How they came acrossThinks carefully about fit rather than title, and was open that they are building towards founding their own company in two or three years. Also said plainly that team diversity matters to them.
Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, Hono · Next.js, React, Tailwind, shadcn/ui · PostgreSQL, Drizzle, Cloudflare Workers, GCP, LangGraph
Eight employers across sixteen years, taking in a global investment bank, their own San Francisco startup and two founding engineer seats. 8 employers, average tenure 2 years.
A month's notice plus a September trip means an October start at the earliest, and they are open that they plan to found their own company within two to three years.
Degree in mathematics and computer science from a Russell Group university.
Two YC companies behind them, one as head of product and one as fractional CTO. The specialism is AI agent systems built from scratch rather than assembled, reasoning, tool calling, planning and memory, shipped to production on Python and Django with a React and TypeScript front. Has built HIPAA grade telemedicine systems too.
Looking forCasually looking for the right fit rather than a fast exit, and ranks remote above salary. A previous three days a week in London proved unsustainable and they are not repeating it.
How they came acrossLanguage agnostic and says so, on the grounds that fundamentals travel and frameworks do not. Raised their own concern about looking too TypeScript specific when they see themselves as a generalist, which was a fair and self aware read.
Python, Django, FastAPI, TypeScript · React, React Native, NestJS · PostgreSQL, Docker, GCP, LangGraph, pgvector
Eight employers over eighteen years, from Big Four training through venture backed healthcare and two YC startups, with CTO and VP of Engineering titles along the way. 8 employers, average tenure 1 year 11 months.
Fully remote is the condition, and they were explicit about hybrid roles that quietly turn into weekly travel.
Masters in computer science from a Russell Group university, plus chartered accountancy.
Backend architecture at real traffic is the meat of this one. Four and a half years as an architect in e-gaming on high volume B2C systems, then two years at a fintech taking the API layer, third party integrations, React console and data pipelines while the team went from 16 to 60. Go, TypeScript, Python and Java, with infrastructure in Pulumi and Terraform on AWS.
Looking forAfter staff or principal level work with real technical depth, specifically AI, web automation and agent based systems. Three days hybrid and non negotiable, with time split between Leeds and London.
How they came acrossTalks in systems rather than tickets, and has clearly been the person who decides how things get built. Heavy user of AI coding tools, thousands of prompts a month, which came across as method rather than novelty.
TypeScript, Go, Python, Java, Rust · React, Vue · AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, Lambda, ECS, Airflow
Eight employers across twelve years, taking in e-gaming at scale, two CTO roles and a fintech, with a longest stint of 6 years 5 months. 8 employers, average tenure 2 years 4 months.
A five day office requirement kills it, and they left the last role partly because the technical challenge had thinned out, so the problem needs to be real.
Bachelors degree in a technical subject.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank