Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £100,000 to £120,000.
Architected the Docker based sandbox and orchestration layer that 40 engineers now use to ship 98 to 99 per cent of production code through Claude. That includes the sub agent design, event driven pipelines, evaluation harnesses and agentic telemetry that make it trustworthy, plus prompt injection hardening and PII leakage mitigation. Fifteen years of Python and AWS underneath it, so this is not an LLM wrapper career.
Looking forWants to take the productivity jump they have had in the last year into a bigger organisation, ideally on forward deployed or AI integration work. Not prepared to do 4 days in an office at this salary band.
How they came acrossUses their own agents to evaluate opportunities and asked to run our materials past them before committing to a longer conversation, which tells you more about how they work than any answer would. Reckons they have done two and a half to three and a half years of work in the past year, and wants to keep that pace.
Python, Go, TypeScript, Ruby · LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, MCP servers · AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis
Five employers over fifteen years, moving from a large Russian software house through mental health and gig economy startups into cybersecurity. 5 employers, average tenure 2 years 6 months.
Said plainly they won't do 4 days a week in an office at £100,000 to £120,000, so the office pattern needs settling before anything else.
Masters in computer science.
Works across the consumer app and the core platform of a UK property portal used by around 6 million homeowners, leading projects end to end with product, design and marketing alongside. TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js and Node on AWS Lambdas and microservices, plus Go, Perl and Python where the legacy demands it. Also contributing to the internal AI platform team building an agentic orchestrator.
Looking forWants the senior title formally and the pay that goes with it, having taken a pay cut to join for the brand and now finding the maths does not work in London. AI forward companies are the pull, ideally smaller and faster moving with merit based promotion.
How they came acrossPassive until they saw something on LinkedIn, then engaged quickly. Comfortable picking up new languages and says so without overclaiming, which the Go and Perl exposure backs up.
TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, React Native · Node.js, Express, Python, Go, Perl · AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, GraphQL
Seven employers over ten years, moving from research and project coordination into engineering across Web3, urban planning and property. 7 employers, average tenure 1 year 6 months.
Promotion bottleneck is the real reason they're moving, so a senior title has to be on the table from day one, and they have ruled out 4 days in an office on the far side of London.
Masters in translation studies from a Russell Group university, with the engineering career built afterwards.
Two and a half years as founding engineer at a legal tech company, taking it from 0 to 1 through to Series D, and now building agentic pipelines and AI in the loop tooling for conveyancers and compliance teams. Python and TypeScript with FastAPI and Next.js, multi provider orchestration across Anthropic, OpenAI and Mistral, LLM OCR, and an evaluation UI with F1 score quality monitoring behind it. Runs 24/7 incident command and writes the post mortems.
Looking forComfortable and bored with it, so wants a step up to senior or founding engineer in an industry they have not worked in. Benefits package and flexibility are weighted heavily alongside the title.
How they came acrossDescribes themselves as sitting at the intersection of engineering and product thinking, and the way they talk about startup stage trade offs backs that up. Being discreet about the search because a colleague is also looking.
Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Django · Next.js, React · Azure AKS, Terraform, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Datadog
Ten employers over twelve years spanning security software, logistics, AI and legal tech, across Pakistan, the US and the UK. 10 employers, average tenure 1 year.
Three months notice, a hard ceiling of 3 days a week in the office, and a contract restriction that rules out residential conveyancing work.
Masters in computer science from a globally ranked 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