Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £80,000 to £100,000.
Owns menu data across 19 regions on the menu builder team at a European food delivery marketplace, in React, TypeScript, Java, GraphQL and PostgreSQL, having been promoted into the senior seat recently. Before that, founding engineer work taking products from 0 to 1 on Node and TypeScript with AWS Lambda, RDS and API Gateway. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner with Solutions Architect in progress.
Looking forWants somewhere with room to grow, because the promotion has already happened and a private equity acquisition has brought the business to a standstill. Product led or growth stage, interesting stack, hybrid rather than five long days in an office.
How they came acrossDecisive. Knows people at one of the companies we discussed, has been referred there before, and made clear they would move quickly if the process restarted. The art history degree shows up in how they talk about users rather than as a curiosity.
TypeScript, React, Node.js, Java, Spring Boot · GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Tailwind, Radix UI · AWS Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, Terraform, Docker
Thirteen employers on record, though most are student and hospitality roles before the engineering career, which covers four years across a proptech, a retailer and a food delivery marketplace. 13 employers, average tenure 1 year 1 month.
Most of the thirteen employers are pre-career student jobs, so the real engineering history is four years rather than six, and they are in other processes already.
Degree in art history, criticism and conservation from a globally ranked university, with engineering learned afterwards.
Fifteen years of .NET and C# on backend systems that carry money and risk, energy billing and monitoring, fraud prevention, credit reporting, retail and supply chain. Cloud native rather than legacy, with APIs and distributed services deployed through Azure, Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform, and RabbitMQ and Dapr handling the messaging. React and TypeScript on the front when the job calls for it, and Datadog and Grafana for observability.
Looking forWants back into the energy sector and onto a path towards principal engineer, doing systems design. Remote first with occasional office visits, and a culture where people are trusted rather than blamed.
How they came acrossWeighs culture and management style heavily, more than most at this level, and raised it unprompted. Made redundant in June with a decent payoff, so they have runway but are not drifting.
C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, TypeScript, React · Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Azure DevOps · PostgreSQL, SQL Server, RabbitMQ, Dapr, xUnit
Six employers over nineteen years across defence electronics, credit reference, retail, supply chain and energy, ending in redundancy after an acquisition. 6 employers, average tenure 1 year 11 months.
They have a competing one stage process they rated very highly and said would be really hard to turn down, so speed decides this one.
Degree in software development.
Took an inherited NestJS and Next.js codebase and moved it onto Hono.js and TypeScript as the first full time permanent engineer at a pet food subscription business. Owns the whole direct to customer offering, the questionnaire system, the algorithmic recommendations and subscription management, on Node, React, Next.js, SST and AWS. Accessibility and performance are stated priorities and there is an industry award shortlisting behind the CV.
Looking forWants a leadership track with mentoring and direct reports, having had that influence informally without the title. Staying in the Brighton area, 2 days a week in London at the very most, and preferably 1.
How they came acrossResilient in a way that is worth noting: two redundancies navigated without it showing in the technical depth. Values culture and team dynamics highly and is flexible on salary and working pattern where the culture is right.
TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, Hono.js · NestJS, SST, GraphQL, Golang, Python · AWS, Salesforce integration, headless CMS, CI/CD
Six employers over nine years across travel, insurance, beauty e-commerce and pet food subscription, twice ending in redundancy through business restructures rather than performance. 6 employers, average tenure 1 year 9 months.
Won't relocate from the Brighton area and caps the London commute at 2 days a week, and they have reached final stages elsewhere so are unlikely to stay available long.
Qualification 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