Adam Whitehurst

Bid Manager/Sales Consultant (SaaS)I'm partnered with a rapidly growing SaaS business who are looking for a new experienced sales professional to join their team. This role will focus on high value opportunities. You'll be working at an enterprise level nurturing long term opportunities that will lead to big payoffs or successful tenders. We're looking for someone who works on the full sales cycle. They have the BD side covered and plenty of leads for you to get your teeth into, so they're looking for someone to run with those leads. communicate closely with clients and the internal solutions/engineering teams, and bring those opportunities through to the close. A crucial requirement here is having experience of extremely long term sales cycles. Someone who is used to being involved in the winning and management of tender processes. Previous experience selling into the high level education sector would also be a big plus. Experience required:At least 5 years selling SaaS software and servicesA successful sales track record of meeting and exceeding targetsStrong written and verbal communication with experience in proposal writingPassionate about technology, technically savvy and proficient in office applicationExperience winning and negotiating long term tendersThis is a hybrid role in Dublin with 2 days per week on-site with a competitive salary, package and commission structure. If this sounds like the next great step in your sales journey, send your CV across or contact Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info.

Database Engineering Tech LeadWe've got a brand new role with one of our Dublin city centre based FinTech clients as they look for a new senior engineer to lead their Database engineering team. They are looking for someone to build out the technical road-map for their database platforms as well as leading teams both locally and across multiple other office locations. As well as being a critical escalation point for technical database issues, you'll also need to have a strong track record in cross functional collaboration to ensure solutions and road-maps are implemented. Desired technical skills: At least 5 years industry experience with the most recent 1-2 in a technical/team leadership roleStrong hands-on experience with SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQLExperience in 24x7x365 mission critical environments - doesn't need to be FinTech but would be a plusExperience in T-SQLStrong familiarity with cloud-based databases like Amazon RDS and Azure SQL would be a big bonusExcellent troubleshooting and communication skillsThe role is ideally hybrid in Dublin CC but can be fully remote for the right person as long as you are based on the island of Ireland. If you'd like to apply, drop your Cv across or contact Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info.

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!

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!

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!

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!