Wave Group
Senior Software Engineer (Data)
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Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Data)
💰 Salary: up to ~£90k
📍 Location: Old Street (3 office days/week)
🛂 VISA sponsorship: NOT available
About the Role
Tired of how recruitment works? Come join us and do something about it.
We're turning Wave into the first AI-native tech recruitment business in the world - and we're looking for another engineer to help us build it.
The Problem
Every agency sits on relationships and information. Almost none of them turn the information into an advantage. We're building the layer that does: every candidate, company and conversation, captured and made useful. That's Mothership, our internal data lake, copilot and dashboard product. It already powers Wave Mind, our external product, which is live and revenue generating.
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The Gap We're Hiring For
Someone who can move between building the product surfaces people actually use (dashboards, copilot workflows) and hardening the data foundation underneath (pipelines, schema, data quality). Roughly 50/50.
Who This Is For
- 4-6 years building and shipping software, ideally with a genuine product or front-end chapter before you moved into data
- Real pipeline experience: monitoring, alerting, schema versioning, no silent failures
- Strong Python and SQL; TypeScript/React is a bonus
- You use Claude Code and AI tooling as a daily force multiplier, not a novelty
- Comfortable making architectural calls without a complete spec
- You want equity, real ownership and a seat on the roadmap, not a ticket queue
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Our Current Stack
- Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Supabase, GCP, and React/Next.js
- Node.js/TypeScript on the product side
- Bullhorn, Granola, Xero, Notion, Slack, Claude in the daily toolkit
Why Now
Our Wave Labs team is currently 7 people. The foundation is built. The product is proven in market. This is the stage where the person who joins shapes what gets built next, not the stage where you inherit someone else's roadmap.
We're not competing with other agencies. We're competing with funded agentic recruitment startups like Jack & Jill and Dex, who have the AI but none of the relationships or database. We have all three and we're building the tech to match.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
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