Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. Up to £80,000.
Shipped 8 production features on a risk management platform serving more than 500 trading users inside a bulge bracket investment bank, placed there through a consultancy. Frontend leaning, React, Next.js and TypeScript with Redux Toolkit, React Query, SSR and SSG, and Core Web Vitals and WCAG 2.1 AA treated as requirements. Node, Express, PostgreSQL and Prisma behind it, plus multi tenant SaaS work before the banking placement.
Looking forWants product focused engineering with end to end ownership, from requirement to production, rather than working a ticket queue. Prefers to be in an office most of the week.
How they came acrossNo complaint about the work itself, just the budget cut that ended it, and that came across as fair rather than bitter. Reacted well to the stack and shape of the role we discussed.
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind · Redux Toolkit, React Query, SSR, SSG · Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Prisma, GraphQL, Vercel
Five employers over nine years including teaching and support roles, with the engineering track covering a consultancy placement into investment banking and a product SaaS before it. 5 employers, average tenure 1 year 4 months.
Currently out of work after the client cut the project budget, and prefers to be in an office most of the week, so a remote first team is a poor fit.
Degree in computer science from a Russell Group university.
Front end lead on a 5 person engineering team at a data analytics company serving large corporates and government, and has been there since the company started three years ago. Planned the system from the ground up rather than inheriting it, in Next.js, React and TypeScript with Node behind, Jest and Playwright for testing and Storybook for the component layer. Has pulled AI tooling into the workflow themselves, Copilot, the Figma MCP server and a chatbot integration in the product.
Looking forWants multiple projects and clients rather than one website, new technical problems, and a salary that reflects the last three years. Wants people in a room, which is the unusual part.
How they came acrossPlateaued and honest about it, three years on the same product with limited learning. The push is partly cultural: the team drifted fully remote and they miss the in person collaboration, which is the opposite of most conversations we have.
React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript · Node.js, REST APIs, Redux, Material UI, Tailwind · Jest, Playwright, Storybook, SonarCloud, GitHub
Six employers over eight years, from Shopify agency work through mentoring and consultancy platforms into a data analytics startup they joined at the beginning. 6 employers, average tenure 1 year 1 month.
Moving from £55,000 to £70,000 so the step is real, and a fully remote team is a deal breaker because in person collaboration is a large part of why they're leaving.
Degree in computing from a Russell Group university.
Half frontend, half backend on a workplace training platform, in a three person development team where there is nowhere to hide. React and Node with AWS underneath, Next.js for server side rendering, and most recently AI and LLM integrations built into the product itself. Taught themselves Python off their own bat, which is the kind of detail that says more than the CV does.
Looking forWants a small high ownership team where they can influence product direction and own features from concept to deployment, with AI work continuing to be part of it.
How they came acrossCurious and self directed, and focused enough to move quickly for the right thing. No stated dissatisfaction with the current role, which means the pull has to do all the work here.
TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js · Node.js, Express, Python, Flask · AWS, SQL, React Native, Heroku, Git
Five employers over a fourteen year working life, with roughly the last four in full time software engineering after a move across from finance. 5 employers, average tenure 2 years 2 months.
No reason for leaving on file at all, so establish what is actually pulling them before investing in a process.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank