Ryan Jones

Lead Infrastructure & Operations Engineer – AI/GPU Cloud (US, Remote) We're hiring on behalf of a fast-scaling, AI-native GPU Cloud provider for a hands-on technical leader to build and run their US infrastructure operation. This is a player-manager role for someone who wants to stay technical while stepping into leadership. You'll lead a team of three infrastructure engineers (with room to grow), working US afternoons with your team and US mornings in close collaboration with the UK Infrastructure Operations Manager and broader global team — true follow-the-sun coverage. What you'll be doing:Acting as the senior technical voice for US infrastructure — designing, deploying, and troubleshooting HPC/AI/GPU compute, storage, and networkingLeading incident response, driving SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, observability, automation)Owning capacity planning, deployment velocity, and 99.9% uptime for US-region servicesMentoring and growing your team — 1:1s, KPIs, career developmentCoordinating 24/7 on-call coverage and seamless handoffs with the UK teamWhat you'll bring:6 years in infrastructure/platform operations, 2 years leading a team with direct reportsDeep hands-on expertise in high-scale infrastructure with high-performance networking (InfiniBand, RoCE, low-latency design)Strong SRE/DevOps chops: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Python/BashCloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)The ability to lead through ambiguity, communicate across regions, and translate complex tech for non-technical stakeholdersIf you're excited by cutting-edge AI infrastructure, want real ownership of a growing team, and thrive working across time zones with a high-caliber global ops group — we'd love to talk.NOTE: Candidates must have at least Green Card status to be eligible for this role.

Senior / Staff Frontend Engineer - AI-Native Banking Platform Location: New York, Denver, AtlantaFunction: Frontend Engineering The Opportunity I'm working with a global financial technology leader on an exciting, newly-formed venture: an AI-native banking platform being built for Tier-1 financial institutions, combining the agility of a startup with the scale and backing of an established enterprise. This isn't a dashboard. It's the control surface for real money, real regulation, and real consequences — and it's where AI agents and human operators work side by side, with every action reviewed, traced, and approved in real time. My client is assembling a small, senior team with startup-level autonomy. If you want your frontend code to be the thing that bank operations, compliance, and finance teams trust every single day, this is the role. What You'll Be Working On The Command Center - the nerve centre of the platform. Account management, ledger operations, compliance rule configuration, product setup — high-stakes, high-density interfaces where every click matters and every action needs to be fast, clear, and correct. The Agent Experience - the embedded AI layer, where users collaborate with autonomous agents through streaming chat. You'll build plan-approval workflows where AI proposes multi-step actions and humans review each one, tool-call and agent-trace visualizations, context management for long-running conversations, and routing across multiple model providers. The Design System - the component library and interaction patterns that shape the entire platform. This comes with real product authority over the primitives, not a back-office component factory remit. Quality at Speed - a mature testing foundation (unit, integration, end-to-end, plus AI evals) that lets the team move fast because it's solid, not despite the lack of one. What You BringStrong production experience with TypeScript and React - real shipped products at scale, not side projectsDeep Next.js expertise, including App Router, Server Components, and server actionsExperience designing or extending a component system with real composition patternsA track record building complex, stateful UIs - multi-step workflows, real-time streaming data, high-density interfaces that stay fast and legible under loadSolid testing practice across unit, integration, and E2E (Vitest, Jest, Playwright, or Cypress)Comfort working across the stack when a feature calls for it — server logic, database queries, API integrationsAn ownership mindset — you don't just implement; you make the product and UX callsBonus points if you have: experience building AI-powered product surfaces (streaming LLM UIs, tool-calling interfaces, agent workflows); fintech or regulated-industry experience where audit trails and approval chains matter; or experience setting technical standards and mentoring on a small team. Why Consider This Role: Work ships directly to production at enterprise scale - powering core banking infrastructure used by Tier-1 institutions worldwide. You'd get the autonomy and pace of a startup, the resources and stability of an established global business, and direct, visible impact on a product redefining how banks operate. What's On Offer4 weeks PTOMedical & dental insurancePensionSign-on bonus eligibilityAnnual bonusPaid national holidays

Forward Deployed Engineer — Banking Platforms - AI-Driven Core Banking TechI'm working with a fast-moving team building an AI-enabled, autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions - backed by the scale and resources of a major global fintech, but operating with the speed and autonomy of a startup. This is a rare chance to ship production code that directly shapes how the world's largest banks modernise their core infrastructure.The roleMy client is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer who'll embed directly with strategic bank clients as a hands-on engineer and trusted technical partner. You'll be:Discovering pain points across architecture, infrastructure, and product teams, then designing the bank's future-state architectureBuilding proofs of concept and end-to-end use cases — think digital twins, checking accounts, stablecoin walletsArchitecting clean, production-grade integrations across upstream and downstream systemsBuilding high-performance data pipelines connecting legacy and modern systemsRunning performance, resilience, and failover testing at scaleSupporting presales with demos, workshops, and architecture educationFeeding learnings from the field back into the product roadmapExpect travel to client sites of roughly 25–50%, depending on engagement phase.What my client is looking forA proven systems builder in Go or RustDeep distributed systems experience - Kafka, concurrency, event-driven architectures, multi-region databasesStrong cloud background (AWS/GCP/Azure), SRE principles, IaC, Kubernetes/OpenShiftExperience building data-intensive pipelinesAn AI-native mindset - comfortable with LLMs and agentic development patterns4 years in a customer-facing technical role: Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Consultant, or Senior Software EngineerBonus points for fintech/banking domain knowledge (transaction flows, core banking systems)Operating styleThis is a high-agency role for someone who thrives without a playbook and is comfortable writing one. Ownership matters here - if something breaks before go-live, you fix it and build the system so it doesn't happen again. You'll move naturally between coding, architecture, and client-facing workshops.Why applyDirect, visible impact on core banking platforms used by Tier-1 global institutions. High autonomy in a small, senior team. Startup energy backed by enterprise resources and a clear line from your work to production.Package: 4 weeks PTO, medical & dental, sign-on bonus eligibility, 401(k) match, paid national holidays, annual bonus.Get in touch if you'd like to hear more or be considered for this role.