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Talent Acquisition Associate – Contract Position – HIRING ASAPLocation: 1 week in the Dublin office per month, 3 weeks remote working Start Date: ASAP Duration: 11 months Daily Rate: €150 per dayThe RoleIn this role, you will be a critical member of our clients’ Talent Acquisition team, helping to deliver seamless hiring experience for candidates, hiring managers, interviewers and recruiters. You will manage interview scheduling, support recruiting operations, coordinate onboarding activities, and ensure the accuracy of candidate and hiring data.The Skills You Bring Strong scheduling and coordination experience.Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.Experience with Microsoft Outlook and Office products.Strong attention to detail and data accuracy.Ability to solve problems independently.Continuous improvement mindset and adaptability to new systems including Workday. The Value You Deliver Deliver an exceptional candidate experience.Drive hiring velocity through efficient scheduling.Maintain accurate hiring data and onboarding activities.Anticipate and resolve scheduling and process issues.Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation. Key Areas of Responsibility Own end-to-end interview scheduling and coordination for Ireland.Manage candidate, interviewer and hiring manager communications.Coordinate hiring events, assessment days and recruitment activities.Maintain candidate and hiring information within Workday.Support offer generation, onboarding and background screening progression.Lead daily recruiting operations stand-ups and hiring tracking activities.Maintain process documentation and support compliance activities.Partner with recruiters, hiring managers, HR Operations and candidates.Support graduate, campus and early careers hiring initiatives.Drive continuous improvement and automation opportunities. Qualifications & Experience Experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Coordination, HR Administration or Operations Support.Experience with Outlook, Excel and Word.Workday experience is desirable.Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Senior Django Engineer – Payments & Subscriptions | Contract | Remote EU | | Immediate Start I'm working with a fast-scaling AI product company (millions of users across mobile, web and API products) that needs a senior Django contractor to take ownership of the pricing and subscription system at the core of their revenue. This is a genuinely high-ownership role: architecture through to shipped code through to watching your releases perform in production. Small senior team, direct CTO exposure, backend deployed multiple times a week. The workOwn the delivery and architecture of the pricing system used by every product surface and millions of usersOptimise existing endpoints — drive down latency, keep it scaling as usage growsDesign endpoints in direct collaboration with frontend engineers, with OpenAPI specs and supporting docsMonitor your own releases (Datadog) and iterate fast on real usage dataWork cross-functionally with product and frontend to ship seamless user experiencesYou'll need5+ years of hands-on Django and Django Rest Framework — this is a hard requirement, not "Python with some Django exposure"Relational databases at real scale: schema design, Django query optimisation, zero-downtime migrations on PostgreSQL/MySQL databases 100GB+Production experience with subscription and billing infrastructure — Stripe and/or RevenueCatA pragmatic, ship-fast mindset: speed of iteration over perfection, frameworks over reinventionStrong ownership — comfortable making product and technical decisions without hand-holdingFluent EnglishAvailable to start within 1–2 weeksDetailsContract, initial 3 months, strong likelihood of extensionFully remote (EU-based), occasional overlap with CET hoursFast process: short interview loop, quick decisionIf you've built or scaled billing and subscription systems in Django for a high-volume consumer product, I'd like to speak with you this week. Message me directly or apply with a current CV.

Software Engineer — Live Production & Automation (VR / Cross-Platform UGC Platform) 6-Month Contract | EMEARemote in UK Offering around £400 - £500 per day PAYE We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Runtime & KTLO (Keep-the-Lights-On) team, supporting a large-scale User Generated Content (UGC) platform that runs natively on VR headsets and streams to mobile and PC via cloud rendering. This is a backend-focused, production-operations role. You won't be building new client features — you'll be building the automation, monitoring, and self-healing systems that keep a live, high-traffic product stable, performant, and compatible across every surface it ships on, while reducing the manual operational burden on the team as much as possible. What You'll DoBuild and maintain automation that keeps the application healthy in production — release pipelines, build health checks, crash triage, and incident detectionMaintain and improve an AI-assisted code repair system that autonomously creates and lands fix diffsDevelop tooling that automatically identifies broken builds, pinpoints the root-cause change, and recommends or executes fixesMonitor weekly deployments of the cloud rendering system, ensuring performance and compatibility between VR and mobile/PC users after every releaseMonitor production quality metrics and respond to regressions and outagesDrive down recurring on-call and operational work — targeting an 80–90% reduction through automationComplete infrastructure and dependency migrations to keep CI/CD pipelines functional as upstream systems are retiredWhat We're Looking For8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalentProven experience building and operating CI/CD, build, release, and cloud deployment pipelines at scaleExperience operating cloud services and server-side fleets in production, including reliability, capacity, and latency managementExperience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling or agents that generate or repair codeExperience building tooling that detects broken builds and traces failures back to their root-cause changeExperience with production monitoring, crash triage, and incident response for a large-scale, multi-surface applicationA track record of reducing operational and on-call load through automationExperience completing infrastructure or dependency migrations without breaking downstream CI/CDTop non-negotiables:Experience building autonomous, self-healing AI systems that monitor metrics and take corrective action independently to keep performance within required thresholdsExperience deploying and maintaining backend services — specifically managing and monitoring deployments of a system like cloud/remote rendering, and verifying cross-platform compatibility (e.g., VR and mobile) after releaseNice to Have:Experience with cloud game or application streaming, or remote renderingExperience with asset delivery or CDN pipelines at scaleExperience with capacity, latency, or session-orchestration monitoring for streamed workloadsExperience operating live-service or large-scale production applications (Live Ops)Familiarity with large monorepo build systems and dependency managementExperience designing self-healing or auto-remediation systems

Network Engineer – Contract Position – HIRING ASAP Location: London – 1-2 days per week in office Start Date: ASAP Duration: 12 months Daily Rate: £350 - £450 per day PAYE Summary We are looking for an experienced Network Production Engineer skilled in tooling, networking, systems, and automation. Tasked with managing, provisioning, deploying, and integrating new products into one of the most robust, expansive, and intricate networks across the globe, this client relies heavily on automation to keep pace with scale requirements. In this position, your primary focus will be designing, building, and launching the vital tools and automation necessary for network provisioning, deployment, and global scaling. Collaborating with industry-leading engineers, you will create the systems and production code that power a massive global network and sustain the network infrastructure used daily by billions of people worldwide!RequirementsPython experienceFamiliar with AI toolsUnderstanding networking fundamentals, basics like SSH, BGP, MPLS7+ years of experience in software engineering, test automation, or infrastructure engineering.5+ years of experience developing software on Linux-based operating systems.3+ years of experience developing automation and tools for network provisioning, deployment, and operations.3+ years of experience developing and understanding network device configurations for at least one vendor (e.g., Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Ciena, Infinera, Nokia).ResponsibilitiesDesign and develop automation, tools, and workflows to facilitate the seamless integration of new routing and switching platforms into the network infrastructure (NPI).Architect and build end-to-end test automation frameworks, leveraging AI to generate, optimize, and execute test suites at scale for qualification of network platforms, new products (switches, routers, optical devices), and network software — integrating them into CI/CD pipelines for continuous qualification.Perform deep dives on complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues.

Software Engineer — Live Production & Automation (VR / Cross-Platform UGC Platform) 6-Month Contract | EMEARemote in UK Offering around £400 per day PAYE We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Runtime & KTLO (Keep-the-Lights-On) team, supporting a large-scale User Generated Content (UGC) platform that runs natively on VR headsets and streams to mobile and PC via cloud rendering. This is a backend-focused, production-operations role. You won't be building new client features — you'll be building the automation, monitoring, and self-healing systems that keep a live, high-traffic product stable, performant, and compatible across every surface it ships on, while reducing the manual operational burden on the team as much as possible. What You'll DoBuild and maintain automation that keeps the application healthy in production — release pipelines, build health checks, crash triage, and incident detectionMaintain and improve an AI-assisted code repair system that autonomously creates and lands fix diffsDevelop tooling that automatically identifies broken builds, pinpoints the root-cause change, and recommends or executes fixesMonitor weekly deployments of the cloud rendering system, ensuring performance and compatibility between VR and mobile/PC users after every releaseMonitor production quality metrics and respond to regressions and outagesDrive down recurring on-call and operational work — targeting an 80–90% reduction through automationComplete infrastructure and dependency migrations to keep CI/CD pipelines functional as upstream systems are retiredWhat We're Looking For8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalentProven experience building and operating CI/CD, build, release, and cloud deployment pipelines at scaleExperience operating cloud services and server-side fleets in production, including reliability, capacity, and latency managementExperience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling or agents that generate or repair codeExperience building tooling that detects broken builds and traces failures back to their root-cause changeExperience with production monitoring, crash triage, and incident response for a large-scale, multi-surface applicationA track record of reducing operational and on-call load through automationExperience completing infrastructure or dependency migrations without breaking downstream CI/CDTop non-negotiables:Experience building autonomous, self-healing AI systems that monitor metrics and take corrective action independently to keep performance within required thresholdsExperience deploying and maintaining backend services — specifically managing and monitoring deployments of a system like cloud/remote rendering, and verifying cross-platform compatibility (e.g., VR and mobile) after releaseNice to HaveExperience with cloud game or application streaming, or remote renderingExperience with asset delivery or CDN pipelines at scaleExperience with capacity, latency, or session-orchestration monitoring for streamed workloadsExperience operating live-service or large-scale production applications (Live Ops)Familiarity with large monorepo build systems and dependency managementExperience designing self-healing or auto-remediation systems

Urgent Hire|AI Change Lead | Contract Duration: Initial 9 Months Location: Hybrid working in the London office Rate: £300 per day Engagement: Inside IR35 AI Change Lead Job Purpose: As the AI Change Lead, you will drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI technologies by leading strategic change initiatives, fostering AI fluency, and embedding AI-enabled behaviours across the organisation. This role is pivotal in ensuring that employees are equipped, engaged, and empowered to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, innovation, and decision-making in line with our ambition to become AI-enabled by 2028. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, creative agility, and deep understanding of AI’s impact on people, processes, and culture. Major Accountabilities:  Lead and execute change management strategies to enhance AI Fluency across, ensuring alignment with AI Strategy and culture.Design and deliver AI fluency programmes tailored to different audiences (leaders, managers, general users), including KPIs and success measures.Build change management learning interventions as needed to help leaders prepare teams to continually adopt changes to ways of working resulting from ongoing integration of AI technologiesCollaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. DDIT and unit learning teams) to ensure seamless adoption and utilization of AI technologies.Coach senior leaders to role-model AI behaviours and support their teams through transitions.Build and activate communities of practice (e.g. AI champions network) to support the diffusion of AI technologies across the organisation.Translate complex AI concepts into accessible narratives through storytelling, campaigns, and engagement events.Champion a culture of experimentation, curiosity, and responsible AI use.Curate and amplify internal success stories, use cases, and impact metrics to build trust and momentum.Monitor adoption metrics, feedback loops, and behavioural indicators to refine change strategies. Skills & Qualifications You should have extensive experience in change management. You should be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and have strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.  Proven experience in change management, organisational development, or transformation leadership (8+ years).Strong understanding of GenAI tools (e.g. ChatGPT and Copilot)Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.Experience designing and delivering training, workshops, and behavioural change programmes.Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in fast-paced environments.

Marketing & Sales Integration Executive - 3-Month Contract, remote or based at any UK office, £ 330 per day (outside IR35)  We're looking for an experienced Marketing & Sales Integration Executive to join a growing professional services organisation on an initial 3-month contract, starting immediately. This is a fast-paced role supporting the integration of multiple newly acquired businesses. You'll help coordinate the rebranding and integration of marketing and sales activities, ensuring a seamless transition while enabling commercial growth and cross-selling opportunities. Duties: Coordinate the marketing and sales integration of newly acquired businesses. Manage rebranding activities across multiple projects to agreed timelines. Support the delivery of consistent brand messaging and customer communications. Help execute cross-sell marketing activities before, during and after integrations. Work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure smooth integration of marketing assets, systems and processes. Take ownership of day-to-day project coordination, allowing senior leaders to focus on strategic integration planning and future acquisitions. Requirements: Experience delivering marketing or brand integration projects. Strong project coordination and organisational skills. Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities. Experience working across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment. The ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.

Acoustic Hardware Engineer Location: West Cambridge, UK — 5 days/week onsiteDuration: Initial 12-Month ContractRate: £400 per day PAYE Join our newly opened audio lab — featuring anechoic chambers and one of the world's largest configurable acoustic rooms (reconfigurable from cathedral-like acoustics to a fully dampened space). This role is centred on data: planning and running acoustic measurements, setting up complex data collection rigs (microphones, speakers, wearables), and processing the results. The work leans more toward software engineering than one-off scripting, and you'll often be handed problems the team hasn't solved before, requiring genuine acoustics expertise to work through. What You'll DoPlan, design, and run acoustic measurements and data collection studies, including experiments with human participants and prototype hardwareBuild systems, interfaces, and protocols for acoustic/behavioral data acquisition using Python, MATLAB, and MaxMSPApply strong coding practices to improve data collection tools and infrastructureWork with the acoustic properties of our lab spaces to design experiments appropriatelyCollaborate with multi-disciplinary researchers to integrate tools into broader platformsWrite clear technical reports on results and methodologyTop 3 Non-NegotiablesMaster's degree in a relevant technical field + 3+ years' industry experience in audio technology development (or equivalent)Proven experience designing and running audio/acoustic experiments in controlled lab settingsStrong, hands-on experience processing and analyzing audio signalsAlso Required3+ years' programming experience in Python, MATLAB, or MaxMSP for audio applicationsSolid working knowledge of acoustics and acoustic instrumentationNice to Have Real-time C/C++ audio coding · psychoacoustics/spatial audio/room acoustics · PyTorch/ML experience · prototype hardware · motion tracking systems · large-scale automated data collection · acoustic lab design · cross-functional research experience · published technical reports