Joe Woodard

We are currently seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join an FinTech scale-up client of ours on a permanent basis. This is with a cutting edge Series B scale-up, whose platform is used by legacy financial institutions in order to provide more modern customer experiences across Payments, Credit Unions and FinTechs.The role requires candidates to be based within a commutable distance to Seattle, as the client has a hybrid office policy.Key Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain backend services written in Java and Go, focusing on performance, reliability, and maintainability.Build and evolve the core integration engine powering data sync, event streaming, and workflow orchestration across financial systems.Architect and optimize AWS-native infrastructure (Lambda, ECS/EKS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, Step Functions, etc.).Develop secure, high-throughput APIs and SDKs for external fintech and enterprise customers.Implement distributed system patterns such as CQRS, event sourcing, idempotent workflows, and resilient messaging.Collaborate with the platform, DevOps, and product teams to define technical requirements and deliver end-to-end solutions.Contribute to internal frameworks, shared libraries, and developer tooling to improve engineering velocity.Ensure compliance with fintech-grade security, auditability, and reliability standards.Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and mentoring junior engineers. Desirable Requirements: Strong background in Software Engineering - main expertise should be within Java, Golang or PythonExperience with working in a start-up is important for this role – proven experience building from 0 to 1 is important Expertise within AWS and containerisation/infrastructure-as-code is a plus (Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform)Experience with working within core banking systems, payments (ACH/Wires) is important for this role  The role offers long-term earning potential with a strong compensation package, including a strong equity component.

We are currently seeking an experienced Data Product Owner to join an FinTech scale-up client of ours on a permanent basis. This is with a cutting edge Series B scale-up, whose platform is used by legacy financial institutions in order to provide more modern customer experiences across Payments, Credit Unions and FinTechs.The role requires candidates to be based within a commutable distance to Seattle, as the client has a hybrid office policy.Key Responsibilities: Own and drive expansion of our Data Manager product, strategy, GTM and roadmap.Work closely with the engineering teams across our infra, security and UX teams to build World-class data experiences for our financial customers.Understand our competition, the data market and predict trends and directions to inform your planning and future work.Work closely with our customers to ensure their success with our products.Maintain the product backlog and ensure timely prioritization, features and stories are adequately detailed for effective work allocation to engineers.Own the business model, pricing and packaging, feature SKUing etc.Report to senior leadership on progress, plans and blockers.   Desirable Requirements: Strong background in Data Product ownership or management - experience with Data Platform product ownership is a strong plusExperience with working in a start-up is important for this role – proven experience within a more agile environment where you wear different hats Expertise within data engineering - either as a hands-on engineer or working with data engineering teamsExperience with working within financial services or FinTech would be a plusExperience with modern lakehouse technologies like Snowflake or Databricks is importany (pricing, packaging etc.) The role offers long-term earning potential with a strong compensation package, including a strong equity component.

We are currently seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join an FinTech scale-up client of ours on a permanent basis. This is with a cutting edge Series B scale-up, whose platform is used by legacy financial institutions in order to provide more modern customer experiences across Payments, Credit Unions and FinTechs.The role requires candidates to be based within a commutable distance to Seattle, as the client has a hybrid office policy.Key Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain backend services written in Java and Go, focusing on performance, reliability, and maintainability.Build and evolve the core integration engine powering data sync, event streaming, and workflow orchestration across financial systems.Architect and optimize AWS-native infrastructure (Lambda, ECS/EKS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, Step Functions, etc.).Develop secure, high-throughput APIs and SDKs for external fintech and enterprise customers.Implement distributed system patterns such as CQRS, event sourcing, idempotent workflows, and resilient messaging.Collaborate with the platform, DevOps, and product teams to define technical requirements and deliver end-to-end solutions.Contribute to internal frameworks, shared libraries, and developer tooling to improve engineering velocity.Ensure compliance with fintech-grade security, auditability, and reliability standards.Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and mentoring junior engineers. Desirable Requirements: Strong background in Software Engineering - main expertise should be within Java, Golang or PythonExperience with working in a start-up is important for this role – proven experience building from 0 to 1 is important Expertise within AWS and containerisation/infrastructure-as-code is a plus (Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform)Experience with working within core banking systems, payments (ACH/Wires) is important for this role  The role offers long-term earning potential with a strong compensation package, including a strong equity component.

We are currently seeking an experienced Data Product Owner to join an FinTech scale-up client of ours on a permanent basis. This is with a cutting edge Series B scale-up, whose platform is used by legacy financial institutions in order to provide more modern customer experiences across Payments, Credit Unions and FinTechs.The role requires candidates to be based within a commutable distance to Seattle, as the client has a hybrid office policy.Key Responsibilities: Own and drive expansion of our Data Manager product, strategy, GTM and roadmap.Work closely with the engineering teams across our infra, security and UX teams to build World-class data experiences for our financial customers.Understand our competition, the data market and predict trends and directions to inform your planning and future work.Work closely with our customers to ensure their success with our products.Maintain the product backlog and ensure timely prioritization, features and stories are adequately detailed for effective work allocation to engineers.Own the business model, pricing and packaging, feature SKUing etc.Report to senior leadership on progress, plans and blockers.   Desirable Requirements: Strong background in Data Product ownership or management - experience with Data Platform product ownership is a strong plusExperience with working in a start-up is important for this role – proven experience within a more agile environment where you wear different hats Expertise within data engineering - either as a hands-on engineer or working with data engineering teamsExperience with working within financial services or FinTech would be a plusExperience with modern lakehouse technologies like Snowflake or Databricks is importany (pricing, packaging etc.) The role offers long-term earning potential with a strong compensation package, including a strong equity component.

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer (Frontend-focused) to join an AI start-up client of ours on a permanent basis. This is with a silicon valley based startup that is building cutting edge AI software to help software development teams be more productive. The company engages in R&D activity to build, fine tune and work with emerging generative AI foundation models. The role requires candidates to be based within a commutable distance to Sunnyvale, Bay Area, as the client has a 5 days office policy. Key Responsibilities:Ability to rapidly prototype ideas to fit user requirements and operational feasibility Ability to take prototypes and productionize them with well-architected, well-designed and testable code Practice test driven development and the ability to build test suites and frameworks that lead to high quality implementations Document and maintain software functionality Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems Integrate software components into a fully functional software system Ensure software is updated with latest features  Desirable Requirements:  Strong background in Frontend engineering – ideally extensive experience with React and AngularExperience with working in a start-up is important for this role – proven experience with building from 0 -> 1 Expertise within the AI sector would be a plus – candidates should have an understanding of AI and LLMsExperience with working with Python on the backend would be a plus  The role offers long-term earning potential with a strong compensation package, including a strong equity component.

We are currently seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join an Automotive client of ours at their R&D site in Foggia. This exciting opportunity will involve joining a Global Data Engineering team and helping to build pipelines to   The role requires Italian language skills, and candidates to be Italy based, ideally Foggia and surrounding areas as travel is required due to hybrid working conditions. Key Responsibilities: Develop data engineering software tools that access data from different data sources & perform data preprocessing and harmonization so that data is ready for post processing (modeling and complex calculations)Built ETL pipelines to ensure smooth transfer of dataHelp with designing Software Architecture – help to build graphical interfacesQuery using SQL on the database Desirable Requirements:  Strong background in Data EngineeringExperience with PythonStrong background in programmingBackground with SQL databases is importantExperience with ETL is a plus The role offers the flexibility of a hybrid work arrangement and is a 3 month contract that will extend long-term.

We are currently seeking an experienced Database Performance Engineer to work for a banking client of ours in Basel on an exciting project developing and operating on a data platform. This project focuses on enhancing the platform’s capabilities to support Advanced Analytics and improve operational efficiency The role requires English language skills, and candidates to be based in Switzerland, with one day per week in the office. Key Responsibilities:Analyse current ingestion and transformation workloads to identify performance bottlenecksAssess the continued use of Citus in the set-up, including a comparison of its benefits and limitations versus native PostgreSQL featuresConduct targeted experiments comparing Columnar and regular row-based tablesQuery performance for large analytical workloadsGeneral performance optimisation including Query planning and execution, Index usage and tuning parallelisation  Desirable Requirements:  Strong background in PostgreSQLExpert in SQL and Data ModellingExperience designing and interpreting performance experimentsHands-on experience with Citus, including columnar storage is a plus   The role offers the flexibility of a hybrid work arrangement and is a contract until the end of the year, which will likely be extended until the end of Q2 next year Call Settings Override To From Record Yes No Always use these settings

We are currently seeking an experienced QA Engineer to join a Consultancy client of ours in Zurich. This exciting opportunity will involve helping one of Switzerlands largest consultancies develop an innovative system to live stream the content of medical devices to multiple remote users simultaneously. The role requires English language skills, and candidates to be based a commutable distance from Zurich. Key Responsibilities:Linux PC Software testingNetworking errorsUse Wireshark to assess network protocolRun network failure simulationsSimulate OS errorsAWS and WebApp testingGUI testingS3 toolingDesirable Requirements:  Strong background in Linux PC software development and testingStrong expertise with AWS and WebApp testing Experience working with medical devices is beneficial but not requiredWireshark experience would be a plusThe role offers the flexibility of a hybrid work arrangement and is an initial contract until the end of the year. Call Settings Override To From Record Yes No Always use these settings