Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £100,000 to £120,000.
Thirteen years of frontend, the last four and a half of them senior at a used car marketplace running £2.2bn of GMV. Drove a micro frontend architecture across the estate, led a department wide observability migration onto Datadog, and is currently running an AWS Cognito authentication migration with custom auth code. React, Next.js and TypeScript with Playwright, Cypress and Vitest behind it.
Looking forWants a lead engineer seat or a senior one with a visible route to it, at a company that promotes internally rather than hiring over people. Hybrid, and a five day office is out.
How they came acrossGot serious about career direction recently, volunteered to cover an engineering manager role and found they liked the leadership side of it. Honest that they have not been through a hiring process in four years and would want time to prepare.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js · Playwright, Cypress, Vitest, Storybook · AWS, Terraform, Datadog, GitHub Actions
Eight employers over a long career, moving from web design and agency work into product engineering, with four and a half years at the current marketplace. 8 employers, average tenure 3 years 3 months.
Three months notice, and four years since their last hiring process, so build in preparation time rather than fast tracking to a live coding round.
Degree in multimedia technology and design.
Ships fast and has the range to back it, React, React Native, Flutter, Vue and Angular across web and mobile, with D3 for the data heavy interfaces and Storybook, Jest and Pact holding the component layer together. Ten years of that in startups, roughly 70 per cent hands on code, architecture and customer support. Has built the same product surface in four different frameworks and has views on which ones earn their place.
Looking forEarly stage, seed to Series A, doing 0 to 1 work with hands on technical leadership rather than a management ladder. Health and mental health missions are the pull. Fintech and crypto are both out.
How they came acrossLeads by optimising for trust, autonomy and psychological safety, and talks about team productivity over individual heroics, which is an unusual thing for a lead to volunteer unprompted. Picks up unfamiliar stacks quickly and contributes production code while doing it.
React, React Native, Flutter, Vue, Angular, TypeScript · Tailwind, ChakraUI, D3, Next.js · Node.js, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, GCP
Ten employers over a long career, mostly early stage product companies with a co-founder stint and a VP of Engineering role among them. 10 employers, average tenure 1 year 7 months.
The current company is running out of money, so timing is urgent, and fintech and crypto are both ruled out flatly.
Masters in software engineering, plus a mental health first aid qualification.
Founding engineer on an AI co-pilot that reads thousands of customer feedback messages a day and writes Jira tickets and Slack alerts off the back of them, which cut support escalations by 60 per cent. Front end is the strong half, React and Next.js with Zustand, TanStack, tRPC, Tailwind and shadcn, plus React Native. Backend and LLM plumbing sit alongside it, LangGraph, LiveKit, Deepgram and ElevenLabs for voice agents.
Looking forRemote only, and that is a hard constraint rather than a preference. Beyond that, AI and ML work with voice first agents and production LLM deployment is where they want to be.
How they came acrossBack in the UK after several years in the US. Already in processes with four or five companies, so responsive but in demand.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Vue, React Native · Zustand, TanStack, tRPC, Tailwind, shadcn/ui · Python, FastAPI, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, LangGraph
Eleven employers over eight years across AI startups, a global ride hailing business, a fintech and medical devices. 11 employers, average tenure 1 year 11 months.
Remote only with no hybrid London option at all, and there is a two month career gap earlier this year.
Masters in machine learning from a Russell Group university.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank