Adam Whitehurst


Adam started his working career in an advertising sales role within the international financial sector. After a while, a friend recommended Adam to make the move into recruitment.

Adam spent eight years at his previous company recruiting for DevOps Engineering roles across the Irish market. Recently, he decided it was time to take on a new challenge. Now, Adam looks after DevOps & Software engineering recruitment for Trust in Soda in the Benelux region.

Give Adam a call anytime if you're interested in making a move!

JOBS FROM ADAM

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Principal Full Stack Software Engineer
Principal Full-Stack Software Engineer (Java/Angular)Just had a new Principal/Tech Lead with one of our multinational FinTech clients based in Dublin. As a Tech Lead you'll play a key role in their Scrum Team whilst also still being hands-on day to day in a true 50/50 full-stack role. If you're someone who enjoys an even split between front and backend work then this role will be a really interesting one for you. The successful engineer will work closely with the Department lead, Scrum Masters, Senior and Junior Devs, QA, and Architects to craft, build, test, and deliver updated and new features on my clients digital platform. Tech Requirements: 8 years of hands-on development experience across front and backendTech Lead experienceExtensive hands-on work with JavaScript frameworks (Angular preferred but happy to take React)Strong hands-on Java (spring boot)Kubernetes experienceCI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)GraphQLAWSThe role is hybrid in my clients Dublin office and comes with an excellent bonus and one of the best benefits packages in the country. If you'd like to apply, send across your CV immediately or contact Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info!
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County Dublin, Ireland
Senior Software Engineer (Golang/React)
Senior Full Stack Engineer (React)As part of a brand new project, we are building out a software engineering team in Ireland for a US scale-up in the software security space. We've been working with them for the past few months and have moved on to the final couple of hires to complete the new department. These final 2 hires will be more full-stack profiles still focusing on Golang for the backend but now looking for strong React experience on the front end. You don't have to have previously worked with Go, just be willing to learn and pick it up in the role. There's a lot of really interesting stuff to get your teeth into in this role, initially with the team focusing on the maintenance of several data pipelines as well as a new billing and metering implementation. The plan will be eventually to migrate those data pipelines with the team then available to tackle new key engineering tasks and projects. Key tech requirements: React experience is essentialHands-on experience with Golang would be a big plus, but if you've worked with Python or Java on the backend and are happy to learn go, that's absolutely fineTypescript is also a plusExperience working in an AWS environment is preferred but GCP and Azure backgrounds can also be consideredGood Database experience with the likes of SQL, Graph QL and No SQL technologies.A big bonus would be having already spent time in a fast/hyper growth tech company/Start-UpThey have a Dublin office but the roles will offer excellent work from home flex and will pretty much be remote first. If you'd like to find out more, send over your CV or ping Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info!
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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Senior AI Engineer
Senior AI EngineerI'm partnered exclusively with a local business who are one of the most successful organisations in the world in their niche sector. They work with some of the biggest brands on the planet, pretty much the whole list are household names you'd easily recognise. They've been implementing AI models for a long time and are looking to add another Senior AI engineer to their Dublin team. You'll get to develop cutting-edge solutions such as machine translation, predictive editing, text generation and many others as part of a team which really drives innovation within the business. Required Skills:3 years experience in a similar roleProven experience developing models in various NLP domainsHands-on development experience in Python AI frameworks such as PyTorch, Keras etcUnderstanding of model architectures such as LLM fine tuning and othersExperience delivering real-world NLP solutions in production environmentsExperience in the localization space would be a big plusI've worked with this business for the guts of 10 years now and always had outstanding feedback from anyone who has joined. This role gives you a real variety of work as pretty much all their clients are looking for AI solutions. They are completely tech agnostic and always innovating looking for new ways of improving how things are done day to day. They have also been developing their own AI tools. If this sounds like somewhere you think you could thrive, send across your CV or contact Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info!
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Belfast, Northern Ireland
Senior Director, Software Engineering
Senior Director, Software EngineeringWe've just had a fantastic new role go live with one of our long term FinTech clients in Belfast and if you're a Senior Manager considering your next move, you'll definitely want to take a look! My client are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to come in at Director level and lead teams both internally and off-shore across multiple locations. You'll need to come from a very strong technical background and have taken that step into senior management where you've been leading teams but also setting strategies and working closely with C level stakeholders.It's crucial you have been working previously in a very fast paced environment. FinTech/Payments would be ideal but any internet facing environment would be ok, somewhere that zero downtime is crucial. You'll be the lead of the Belfast office from a software engineering delivery standpoint so you'll also need to be confident collaborating with multiple other teams and departments across that site. Required Profile: Background of 10 years in software engineering roles before moving into management5 years in Management - experience leading a department of around 100 peopleAgile developmentExperience leading teams to deliver in a high performance, high availability system where reliability is crucialStrong understanding of DevOps principlesEssential you have lead departments split across multiple geographical locationsCross-functional collaboration is crucial to this businessA dev background in C# or C would be a big bonus! If this sounds like the next step in your career, drop your CV in or contact Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info!
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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Cloud Service Delivery Lead
Cloud Service Delivery LeadWe've partnered exclusively with one of our clients in the managed services space looking to hire a new Service Delivery Lead specialising in Cloud tech. This role will work within the engineering department leading a team of SRE's and Cloud engineers. Duties will include: Ensuring tickets are processed in a timely manner mainly utilising JIRAWorking on change requestsAdhering to SLA'sDelivering long term service transition and process improvementYou'll be working with a large team of around 18, not actively all reporting into you but having leadership influence over them all. Essential Skills: At least 8 years commercial experienceStrong Service Management (ISO and ITIL Certifications ideally)Hands-on Cloud experience (AWS and Azure)Previous experience in the consulting space would be a big plusThe role is hybrid based in Dublin city centre and will be looking to get interview commenced ASAP. If you'd like to apply for the role, send across your CV immediately or contact Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info.
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County Dublin, Ireland
Senior Software Engineer (Golang/React)
Senior Software Engineer (Golang/React)As part of a brand new project, we are building out a software engineering team in Ireland for a US scale-up in the software security space. We've been working with them for the past few months and have moved on to the final couple of hires to complete the new department. These final 2 hires will be more full-stack profiles still focusing on Golang for the backend but now looking for React and Typescript on the frontend side. There's a lot of really interesting stuff to get your teeth into in this role, initially with the team focusing on the maintenance of several data pipelines as well as a new billing and metering implementation. The plan will be eventually to migrate those data pipelines with the team then available to tackle new key engineering tasks and projects. Key tech requirements: Hands-on engineering experience with Go is preferred, but if you've got strong Python development skills and are open to picking up Go, please do still applyReact experience is essentialTypescript is also a plusExperience working in an AWS environment is preferred but GCP and Azure backgrounds can also be consideredGood Database experience with the likes of SQL, Graph QL and No SQL technologies.A big bonus would be having already spent time in a fast/hyper growth tech company/Start-UpThey have a Dublin office but the roles will offer excellent work from home flex and will pretty much be remote first. If you'd like to find out more, send over your CV or ping Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info!
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County Dublin, Ireland
Senior Software Engineer (Golang)
Senior Software Engineer (Golang)We've got one more hire to make for the Golang team on this fantastic project we've been covering with our client in the Software Security Sector.  We've partnered with them exclusively to build out a brand new software engineering team for their Irish office.There will be a couple more full-stack roles hired as well but this is the final spot for someone with this profile. They tend to prefer Go for software engineering tasks and Python for data intensive work. There's a lot of really interesting stuff to get your teeth into in this role, initially with the team focusing on the maintenance of several data pipelines as well as a new billing and metering implementation. The plan will be eventually to migrate those data pipelines with the team then available to tackle new key engineering tasks and projects. Key tech requirements: Hands-on engineering experience with Go is preferred, but if you've got strong Python development skills and are open to picking up Go, please do still applyPython and JavaExperience working in an AWS environment is preferred but GCP and Azure backgrounds can also be consideredGood Database experience with the likes of SQL, Graph QL and No SQL technologies.A big bonus would be having already spent time in a fast/hyper growth tech company/Start-UpThey have a Dublin office but the roles will offer excellent work from home flex and will pretty much be remote first. If you'd like to find out more, send over your CV or ping Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info!
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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
MI Report Developer
MI Report Developer We've just had a new role go live today with one of our local clients in South Dublin as they look to add another MI Report Developer to their Data department. They're looking for someone with a strong background in data engineering and visualisation who can support business and operational management. Someone who can also support the wider data user base with any new and existing data requirements for new operations reports. Communication and a previous experience of collaborating with multiple teams across an organisation will be key here. Engagement with the business is vitally important as a crucial element will be to take information from the business and operational functions to understand reporting needs. Key requirements: Strong Data engineering experience with Microsoft Azure tools including Synapse, Data Factory, Event Hubs etcExperience creating and implementing BI reporting solutions (Power BI/Tableau)T-SQL codingExperience in Dimensional Data Warehouse methodologiesExcellent communication and a track record of collaboration across multiple teams and departments within an organisationExperience in the insurance sector would be a bonus but not essentialThe role is a hybrid role in Dublin. If you'd like to apply, drop your profile across or contact Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info.
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