What the market asks for, role by role
For 11 roles we counted what live postings actually name — those pages lead with the numbers. Every role also has a worked example you can open in the editor and edit.
Software Engineer | Backend & Platform
Software engineer with 5 years on backend and platform teams. Owns services end to end — design, deploy, on-call — and measures the result. Recently cut p95 latency 77% on the main read path and brought CI down from 22 minutes to 6.
- Cut p95 API latency from 840ms to 190ms by adding a read-through cache and removing two N+1 queries
- Migrated 23 services from EC2 to EKS with Terraform; deploy time dropped from 25 minutes to 7
- Brought CI from 22 minutes to 6 by parallelising the suite and caching dependency layers
- Shipped the billing rewrite that now processes €4.2M/month with zero reconciliation failures
- Raised test coverage on the payments path from 41% to 88% ahead of the PCI audit
Python · TypeScript · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker · Kubernetes · AWS · Terraform · GraphQL · CI/CD · Observability · Distributed Systems · REST APIs
Senior Product Manager | Growth & Monetisation
Product manager with 7 years on growth and monetisation surfaces. Works from evidence and says what was given up. Most recently took checkout conversion from 2.1% to 3.4% with a 9-person team.
- Owned checkout for a 9-person team; drove conversion from 2.1% to 3.4% over three quarters (€2.6M annualised)
- Killed two roadmap bets after 30 user interviews; redirected the quarter to onboarding, lifting activation from 22% to 39%
- Ran the pricing migration for 4,100 existing accounts with 0.4% involuntary churn
- Cut time-to-first-value from 11 days to 2 by removing four required setup steps
- Reduced support tickets 27% by rewriting the three flows that generated most of them
Product discovery · A/B testing · SQL · Roadmapping · OKRs · Pricing · Stakeholder management · Jira · Figma · Agile · KPIs · Reporting · Market Research · Experimentation · Go-to-Market
Account Manager | Retention and Expansion
Account manager holding a €5.2m book across 46 accounts at 94% gross retention and 112% net revenue retention. Strongest on renewal negotiation and turning at-risk accounts around before they reach notice.
- Held 46 accounts worth €5.2m ARR at 94% gross retention and 112% net revenue retention
- Closed €880k of expansion revenue and renegotiated 19 renewals for a 14% uplift in average value
- Recovered 3 at-risk accounts worth €640k by rebuilding their onboarding plans
- Cut mid-market churn from 17% to 9% with day-30 and day-90 health checks
- Brought average escalation resolution down from 11 days to 4 with a shared tracker
Account management · Renewals and negotiation · Upselling and cross-selling · Churn analysis · Quarterly business reviews · Salesforce · Stakeholder management · Customer onboarding · Escalation handling · Forecasting · Reporting · Microsoft Excel · Customer Retention · Contract Negotiation · Onboarding
Marketing Manager | Growth & Lifecycle
Marketing manager with 8 years across growth and lifecycle. Owns budget and reports on returns: most recently a €1.2M budget with blended CAC down 24% and organic sessions up from 40k to 190k a month.
- Owned a €1.2M annual budget across paid search, paid social and content; cut blended CAC 24%
- Grew organic sessions from 40k to 190k per month in 14 months by rebuilding 300 pages around search intent
- Managed a team of 5 plus two agencies across DACH and Nordics
- Launched the lifecycle programme that added €640k of expansion revenue in its first year
- Took ROAS on paid social from 1.8 to 3.1 by killing four audiences and rebuilding creative testing
SEO · Paid search · Paid social · Content strategy · Lifecycle marketing · HubSpot · GA4 · Positioning · Team leadership · Paid Media · Demand Generation · Campaign Management · Reporting · KPIs
Data Analyst | Product & Revenue Analytics
Data analyst with 4 years in product and revenue analytics. Comfortable owning a question end to end — from the SQL to the meeting where the decision gets made. Most recent work identified €1.8M of at-risk ARR.
- Built the churn model that identified €1.8M of at-risk ARR; retention campaign recovered 34% of it
- Replaced a 40-tab spreadsheet with a dbt model and Looker dashboard used daily by 60 people
- Ran the pricing A/B test across 240k sessions that lifted checkout conversion 11%
- Cut month-end reporting from 5 days to 6 hours by automating the ETL in Python and Airflow
- Found and corrected a revenue-attribution error that had understated paid search by 18%
SQL · Python · dbt · Looker · Tableau · Snowflake · Airflow · A/B testing · Excel · Power BI · Business Intelligence · KPIs · Statistics
Project Manager | ERP & Operations Programmes
Project manager with 7 years running operational and ERP programmes up to €3.4M. Known for recovery work — most recently brought a programme that was 9 weeks late back to its original first-release date.
- Delivered a €3.4M ERP migration across 6 sites, 11 months, on budget and two weeks early
- Recovered a programme running 9 weeks late by re-scoping to two releases; shipped the first on the original date
- Introduced weekly risk reviews; escaped-risk incidents fell from 8 per quarter to 2
- Ran a portfolio of 12 concurrent projects with a combined €7M budget and 40 contributors
- Cut change-request turnaround from 14 days to 4 by rebuilding the approval path
Agile · Scrum · PRINCE2 · Risk management · Budget ownership · Stakeholder management · Jira · Change management · Reporting · Microsoft Excel
- PRINCE2 Practitioner · AXELOS · 2022
Business Analyst | Process and Systems
Business analyst working across order-to-cash and logistics, most recently reducing manual handoffs from 14 steps to 6 on an ERP migration. Writes the requirements and queries the data instead of relying on reports.
- Mapped 31 as-is order-to-cash processes and cut manual handoffs from 14 steps to 6
- Wrote 148 user stories for an ERP migration across 4 warehouses and coordinated UAT with 36 testers
- Built the business case for a €650k automation project with an 18-month payback
- Analysed 400,000 claim records in SQL and found a routing rule breaching service levels on 12% of cases
- Cut invoice exception handling from 90 to 25 minutes per case by redesigning the approval matrix
Requirements engineering · Process mapping and BPMN · Stakeholder workshops · SQL · Power BI · Jira and Confluence · UAT coordination · Business case development · Gap analysis · Agile · Reporting · Microsoft Excel · Dashboards · KPIs
German (C2) · English (C1)
Financial Analyst | FP&A and Forecasting
FP&A analyst supporting a €240m revenue manufacturer, with rolling cash forecasts held inside 4% variance for 11 quarters. Builds the models and pulls the data, rather than waiting on a reporting team.
- Owned the rolling 13-week cash forecast for a €240m revenue business, variance under 4% for 11 quarters
- Rebuilt the budget model across 38 cost centres and cut the planning cycle from 10 weeks to 6
- Analysed 1,200 customer accounts and surfaced €3.4m of margin lost to unpriced freight
- Replaced 14 manual Excel reports with a nightly Power BI model, saving about 20 analyst hours a month
- Ran variance reviews with 9 department heads and cut unexplained spend variance from €640k to €95k
Financial modelling · Budgeting and forecasting · Variance analysis · Scenario planning · SQL · Power BI · Cash flow forecasting · Business partnering · Advanced Excel
Operations Manager | Fulfilment and Continuous Improvement
Operations manager running a 64-person fulfilment site with a €7.8m budget, holding on-time dispatch at 98.6%. Focused on cost per order, rota stability and getting safety incidents down.
- Led 64 staff over 3 shifts and lifted on-time dispatch from 91% to 98.6%
- Owned a €7.8m budget, finishing 3% under plan two years running, and cut cost per order from €4.60 to €3.35
- Handled a 42,000-order peak week with no permanent headcount increase
- Ran 11 kaizen events that removed 2,400 labour hours a year from packing
- Brought recordable safety incidents from 14 to 3 a year by redesigning the loading bay flow
Operations leadership · Capacity and shift planning · Lean and kaizen · Budget ownership · Vendor and courier management · KPI reporting · Health and safety · Root cause analysis · WMS systems · Compliance · Business Intelligence · Reporting · Continuous Improvement · Supply Chain · Vendor Management
Recruiter | Full-Cycle Tech and Commercial Hiring
In-house recruiter carrying 18 live requisitions and delivering 64 hires a year at a 38-day average time to fill. Sources 71% of hires directly, which has taken €190k a year out of agency spend.
- Carried 18 live requisitions and made 64 hires a year across engineering and sales
- Cut time to fill from 61 days to 38 with a structured 20-minute pre-screen
- Filled 9 senior engineering roles that had been open over 5 months
- Built a 1,200-candidate talent pool in Greenhouse that produced 14 hires without fresh sourcing
- Lifted offer acceptance from 74% to 91% by moving compensation talks to first interview
Full-cycle recruiting · Direct sourcing · Boolean search · Greenhouse ATS · Structured interviewing · Offer negotiation · Hiring manager partnering · Talent pooling · Recruiting analytics · Talent Sourcing · Applicant Tracking Systems · Interviewing · Onboarding · Employer Branding · Stakeholder Management
Mechanical Engineer | Design for Manufacture
Mechanical design engineer with parts in series production at 40,000 units a year, most recently cutting assembly cost per unit from €68 to €51. Works in SolidWorks with FEA and GD&T through to supplier release.
- Designed a gearbox housing now in series production at 40,000 units a year
- Cut assembly cost per unit from €68 to €51 by consolidating 14 parts into 6 castings
- Held a 7-part assembly within a 0.05 mm tolerance stack using GD&T
- Raised bracket fatigue life from 180,000 to over 1,000,000 cycles through FEA-led redesign
- Qualified 5 machined-component suppliers and cut lead time from 12 weeks to 7
SolidWorks · Finite element analysis · GD&T and tolerance stack-up · Design for manufacture · Sheet metal and casting design · Prototype build and test · Supplier qualification · Bill of materials management · ISO 9001 documentation · Compliance · Continuous Improvement · Reporting · Vendor Management
Data Engineer — pipelines, warehousing, ML infrastructure
Engineer across the whole data stack: ML-framework performance work, batch and streaming pipelines, warehousing, and the serving layers on top. Open-source author; builds the platforms data scientists stand on.
- Worked on APIs and performance for training deep-learning models on Tensor Processing Units
- Contributed to a unified batch/streaming pipeline model and its language SDKs
- Built the notifications service (email, push, in-app) with delivery-time optimization, tracking, queuing and A/B testing
- Built bulk data processing from Hadoop into Cassandra with a REST serving layer
- Set up and managed the Redshift warehouse with daily ETL and an internal access app
- Built the core recommendations service — offline training and online serving
- Open-sourced a reusable-pattern workflow framework for data pipelines
- Created models for portfolio hedging, optimization and price forecasting
- Built a strategy backtesting engine used for simulating trading strategies
Python · Scala · TensorFlow · Apache Beam · Redshift · Cassandra · Hadoop · Docker · AWS
C++ Software Engineer — distributed systems & middleware
C++ engineer building distributed, protocol-heavy systems: DDS-based command and control, asynchronous AMQP messaging, TLS-secured IoT protocol stacks. Comfortable from socket to architecture diagram.
- Designed a Qt chat application on TCP — socket programming, serialization, message routing
- Designed a publish-subscribe OpenDDS architecture for a radar command-and-control interface with QoS policies for volatile and persistent topics
- Implemented a fully asynchronous, layered AMQP C++ client for RabbitMQ
- Built cross-platform asynchronous UAV-detection refinement for a GIS application, benchmarked point-in-polygon algorithms over MongoDB-fetched GeoJSON
- Simulated discovery, pairing and data exchange for the EEBUS smart-home protocol suite in a university-industry collaboration
- Migrated the protocol framework from Go to C++ for embedded adaptability
- Implemented TLS with X.509 and multicast DNS for secure device communication
- Contributed to research software in intelligent systems as a visiting undergraduate researcher
C++ · Qt · OpenDDS · RabbitMQ · TCP/IP · TLS/X.509 · MongoDB · Go · CMake
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Full-stack engineer with 15+ years shipping web and mobile products — from mobile apps for national brands to real-time collaboration platforms. Led teams, architected migrations, and built design systems that cut time to market.
- Led technical architecture of a blockchain-based film funding platform
- Architected migration from CRA to Next.js for improved performance, SEO and developer experience
- Established a release process enabling faster deployments and reliable rollbacks
- Implemented system-wide monitoring and security improvements
- Led a product squad building an enterprise agile meeting platform
- Built a design system with Tailwind CSS, improving development speed and time to market
- Implemented engineering practices: PR automation, code-review guidelines and workflows
- Contributed open source to Relay DevTools and React i18n tooling
- Led the frontend team on a real-time platform supporting 30+ users per room with HD streaming and collaboration tools
- Developed an offline-first Android app improving a donor-registration process
- Led development teams across multiple successful client projects
React · Next.js · TypeScript · Node.js · GraphQL · Tailwind CSS · React Native · PostgreSQL
Software Engineer — new grad
Computer science graduate (B.S. + M.Eng) with production internships at two major platforms, an open-source leadership role, and a venture fellowship selected at 1-of-48 odds.
- Selected as 1 of 52 fellows from 2,500 applicants for a venture-capital engineering fellowship
- Led and shipped the admin interface for the platform's new course infrastructure
- Wrote and reviewed full-stack code: JavaScript (Backbone) and Scala (Play)
- Planned, designed and shipped the full stack for adding and editing automatic speech-recognition captions — in production
- Created a Backbone-like JavaScript framework for the captions editor
- Led a 4-university team (MIT, Cornell, Imperial College, Helsinki) contributing features in PHP and Shell
- Shipped tooling to a project used daily by major technology companies
Java · Python · JavaScript · Shell · OCaml · C++ · MySQL · Backbone.js