Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £120,000 and above.
Eight years of full stack across SaaS platforms, real-time systems and microservices, currently on a design system documentation product. TypeScript and React on the front, Ruby on Rails and Node on the back, with AWS Lambda, ECS, Kinesis, Redshift and CDK behind it. Has built GitHub and Bitbucket integrations, private npm packages, Slack apps and design token pipelines.
Looking forWants a smaller team, fully remote, with new technical problems and a view across the business. Stagnation is the push, not money.
How they came acrossBlunt about what's wrong, repetitive work on a legacy codebase written 6 years ago and no way to get involved anywhere else. Reads as a capable technical operator who has simply run out of road where they are.
TypeScript, React, Ruby on Rails, Node.js · AWS Lambda, ECS, Kinesis, CDK · PostgreSQL, Jest, Cypress, Storybook
Eleven years across 6 employers, from a Scottish local authority and a games backend company into mentoring software, compliance training and now developer tooling. Average tenure 1 year 5 months with a longest stint of 4 years 2 months.
Won't relocate, won't take an office-based role and won't go back into games. Based in Scotland, so remote-first is the only shape that works.
HND in software development.
Builds agentic systems that watch design tools for changes and trigger autonomous documentation updates, plus the platform to manage agents, run evals and run experiments. The specialism is where design systems meet engineering, on Node, TypeScript and React with Ruby on Rails, Python and Django behind it. Before that, 2 years building pay-per-use insurance platforms for gig economy workers.
Looking for£125,000 is the floor and they said so plainly. Wants remote-first, senior, staff or founding engineer scope, and progression that shows up on a CV.
How they came acrossHelped write the career framework at their current company and it still produced no promotion, which is the detail that explains the whole move. Selective about where they go next and in no hurry.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js · Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, GraphQL · AWS, Postgres, Playwright, Storybook
Thirteen years across 6 employers, from construction and building supply IT work through a New Zealand university and a games studio into insurtech and developer tooling. Average tenure 2 years 6 months with a longest stint of 4 years 2 months.
Hard floor of £125,000. Won't take fully on-site, ideally fully remote or 1 to 2 days a week at most, and rules out gambling and AI wrapper products.
Degree in media design.
Second engineer at an AI voice and agent product, hands-on across all of it including enterprise features, reliability, infrastructure and the model work. The AI depth is real, with supervised fine-tuning, DPO, LoRA and PEFT, eval design, LLM-as-judge and NER fine-tuning, plus agent context pipelines. TypeScript and Python, serverless on GCP with Cloud Run, Firestore, BigQuery and Vertex AI.
Looking forNot looking, but open. Wants ownership, urgency and serious model work, plus a higher base and hybrid flexibility. Currently in the office every day.
How they came acrossFounded a company before this and a food business before that, so the appetite for building from nothing is evidenced rather than claimed. Came out of a structured equity trading desk, which shows in how precisely they describe trade-offs.
TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React · Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Firestore · GCP, Vertex AI, AWS, Pinecone
Ten years across 5 employers, from insurance software and a derivatives trading desk into founding a food business and a consumer app, now an AI startup. Average tenure 1 year 8 months with a longest stint of 2 years 6 months.
Three months notice and passive. Rules out slow or process-heavy places, and infrastructure-only roles with no product surface.
Degree in mathematics and statistics 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