Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. Up to £85,000.
Real time data interfaces are the specialism, building UIs that let people read data at low latency across several platforms. Vue 3 and Nuxt with SSR and Pinia, plus React and Next.js, WebRTC and WebSockets for the live streams, Go on the backend and Jetpack Compose and Kotlin on Android. Currently the sole engineer on a pre-seed wearables company's product and site, splitting roughly 50/50 between frontend and backend.
Looking forNot looking, and happy where they are. What would move them is early stage with meaningful equity and a mission worth the risk, plus a real technical problem underneath it.
How they came acrossDescribes themselves as an adaptable team player with a love of complex problem solving, and the range across Go, Rust, Kotlin and Godot suggests that is genuine curiosity. Has clear views on AI tooling, specifically that human oversight stays in the loop.
TypeScript, Vue 3, Nuxt, React, Next.js · Go, Node.js, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose · AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Playwright, Pinia
Five employers over nine years, from a global consumer electronics group and a live streaming company through security hardware into a pre-seed wearables startup. 5 employers, average tenure 1 year 1 month.
Very happy where they are, so it takes meaningful equity and a mission to move them, and they already commute 4 days a week from Bedford into central London.
Degree in computer science and mathematics with a placement year.
Three years of commercial engineering, all of it at a flight free travel company and all of it greenfield. Built a map based trip builder and a trip catalogue, and is currently putting together a user accounts system on a separate database. Works across the middleware layer joining frontend and backend services, in TypeScript, React, Next.js and Node, with automated testing and CI/CD as part of the job rather than an afterthought.
Looking forWants to move properly into full stack rather than stay frontend leaning, on a product engineer footing covering design through deployment. Sustainability or tech for good is the pull, and more than 4 days in an office is out.
How they came acrossCame to engineering from teaching and then social science research, and makes a fair case that both careers show up in the work, people first thinking and rigour in problem solving. Not actively looking, just open.
TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js · Redux, Node.js, Python · Dato CMS, automated testing, CI/CD, Matomo
Four employers over a seventeen year working life, but only three of those years in a full time engineering role, the current one being their first. 4 employers, average tenure 4 years 10 months.
Three years of commercial engineering sit behind a much longer work history, so pitch the level on the engineering track not the total, and there is a wedding and honeymoon in the next month.
Degree in philosophy and English literature from a top UK university.
React and React Native across web and mobile, with complex state management and reusable component systems as the stated strength. Shipped production features to more than 20,000 active users at a large UK motoring services brand, working alongside growth and marketing on live product. Currently on unreleased web and mobile apps in JavaScript, TypeScript, React and React Native, with Koa, MongoDB and AWS serverless behind them.
Looking forWants full stack ownership on a live product with real users at the end of it, plus cloud, infrastructure and deployment responsibility. A long term growth story matters more to them than a jump in title.
How they came acrossFrustrated in a specific and reasonable way, describing the current work as building in the dark with no user feedback or product direction. Lit up when the conversation turned to working alongside growth and marketing on something live, which is what they had before.
JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js · Zustand, Jotai, React Query, Tailwind, Expo · Node.js, Koa, MongoDB, AWS, CircleCI
Seven employers over four years, starting in business intelligence consulting at a large bank before moving into engineering at a motoring services brand and now an AI company. 7 employers, average tenure 1 year 1 month.
Three months notice, which is long for the level, and they are exploring rather than actively searching.
Degree in accounting and finance, with the move into engineering made commercially.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank