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Owen Thomas

Owen Thomas

owenthomas.io

27 Jobs

7 Employees

About the Company

Hey, we are Owen Thomas. We are a relationship first recruitment partner for Data, Product & Engineering, across Contract and Permanent roles in the UK & Europe.

Humanness matters. We believe that empathy is the core of great recruitment; bringing opportunity and businesses to life, beyond what a person can see on a website.

All done with our OT personal touch.

Our mission: To be leaders within our specialisms and create unrivalled opportunities both internally and externally.

We balance purpose and profit. Actively investing a proportion of our profits into projects that positively influence; diversity in tech & the climate crisis.

We do not claim to change the world, but we will do our very best to leave it in a better place than we found it.

Listed Jobs

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Senior Full Stack (Front End) | Build the Future of On-Screen Discovery | 1 Day LDN | £100K + Equity
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**Job title** Senior Full Stack (Front End) Engineer **Role Summary** Own high‑impact product features from concept through launch in an early‑stage, fast‑moving team. Design and ship polished, scalable front‑end experiences, create developer‑friendly SDKs, component libraries, and API contracts, while contributing to back‑end services that power them. Champion performance, accessibility, maintainability, and high‑quality code across the stack. **Expectations** - 3+ years of professional software engineering with a full‑stack focus. - Proven experience building front‑end applications in JavaScript/TypeScript with React (or comparable framework). - Practical knowledge of Node.js/Express or similar server‑side frameworks. - Demonstrated ability to develop SDKs, component libraries, or developer‑tooling. - Strong product instinct, design sensibility, and attention to detail. - Comfortable shipping fast in an early‑stage environment, taking ownership, and collaborating closely with designers, founders, and customers. **Key Responsibilities** - Build, test, and maintain scalable, performant front‑end interfaces and full‑stack features. - Own features end‑to‑end: technical design, implementation, testing, and launch. - Design and implement intuitive SDKs, UI component libraries, and integration tools for external developers. - Collaborate with designers, product leads, senior engineers, and external partners to shape UX and product direction. - Contribute to back‑end services and APIs (Node.js/Express), defining clean, well‑documented contract designs. - Champion best practices for performance, accessibility, and maintainability across the stack. - Assist in defining engineering processes, tooling, and standards as the team grows. **Required Skills** - JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS expertise. - Modern front‑end framework proficiency (React preferred). - Node.js / Express or equivalent back‑end framework experience. - Experience building SDKs, component libraries, or developer‑focused tools. - Knowledge of state‑management libraries (e.g., Redux, Zustand) and front‑end testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library). - Familiarity with build tools (Webpack, Vite, Rollup) and cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure). - Strong understanding of system design for data‑heavy applications. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience. ---
London, United kingdom
Hybrid
Senior
28-12-2025
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Data Scientist | UK's Fastest Growing AI Hospitality Platform | £60K - £80K + Equity | Hybrid (4 Days)
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**Job Title** Data Scientist **Role Summary** Develop and deploy AI/ML solutions that power a fast‑growing hospitality platform. Work within cross‑functional product pods alongside product managers, designers, and engineers to build demand‑prediction, computer‑vision, and optimization models, including large language models (LLMs). Drive automation of systems, processes, and payroll while ensuring models are production‑ready and scalable on AWS. **Expectations** - Deliver high‑quality, reproducible data science projects from concept to production. - Collaborate daily with multidisciplinary teammates to align models with product goals. - Maintain robust codebases and documentation for long‑term model stewardship. - Contribute to the team’s growth by sharing expertise and best practices. **Key Responsibilities** - Design, implement, and validate statistical and machine‑learning models (time‑series forecasting, regression, computer vision, optimization). - Fine‑tune and integrate LLMs for domain‑specific applications. - Productionise models using Python (Django, Go) and AWS services (SageMaker, Lambda). - Monitor model performance in production and iterate to improve accuracy and efficiency. - Support data pipelines, feature engineering, and data quality initiatives. - Participate in sprint planning, code reviews, and technical documentation. **Required Skills** - Strong expertise in demand prediction, computer vision, or optimization. - Quantitative background: statistics, time‑series forecasting, regression, traditional modeling. - Proven experience with LLMs. - Proficiency in Python AI libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Scikit‑learn). - Software development experience in Python (including Django) and Go. - Demonstrated ability to productionise and deploy AI models. - Familiarity with AWS AI/ML services (SageMaker, Lambda) and cloud‑based deployment. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
London, United kingdom
On site
05-01-2026
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Backend Engineer - Go | Core Platform | High-Performance Sports Trading Start-up | Flexible work culture and remote working, ideally a London presence | Salary £75-95k base + Stock options
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Job Title: Backend Engineer – Go (Core Platform) Role Summary: Design, build, and maintain high‑performance, low‑latency Go services that power a real‑time sports trading platform. Deliver resilient APIs, event‑driven data pipelines, and efficient PostgreSQL data handling while collaborating with a senior engineering team. Expectations: 4‑7+ years of backend development; extensive production‑grade Go experience; strong expertise in system design, concurrency, and performance optimization; ability to thrive in high‑pressure commercial environments; ownership mindset, pragmatism, and clear communication; senior‑level technical and cross‑functional collaboration. Key Responsibilities: • Own and evolve Go micro‑services at the core of the platform. • Design and implement low‑latency APIs and real‑time data pipelines. • Work with PostgreSQL and high‑volume event streams to support trading workflows. • Contribute to product transition from API‑centric to full trading platform. • Take full ownership of feature delivery and system reliability. • Mentor peers and influence technical direction within a senior‑only team. Required Skills: • Proficient in Go (1.20+), including concurrency patterns, error handling, and performance tuning. • Deep understanding of systems architecture, low‑latency design, and event‑driven processing. • Experience with PostgreSQL, schema design, indexing, and analytics. • Familiarity with TypeScript/Node.js, React, and Python for ancillary services (value‑added). • Hands‑on knowledge of self‑hosted infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. • Strong debugging, profiling, and optimization skills. • Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to articulate trade‑offs. Required Education & Certifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
United kingdom
Remote
22-01-2026
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Senior Full Stack Engineer | Up to £110K | One of the UK's fastest growing AI platforms | UK Remote | React/Node/TypeScript
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Job Title: Senior Full Stack Engineer Role Summary: Senior full‑stack engineer responsible for designing, building, and scaling complex systems on a global, creator‑first AI platform, delivering high‑quality code across React, Node.js, and TypeScript ecosystems. Expactations: Deliver end‑to‑end ownership of features, raise development standards, and drive cross‑functional collaboration to balance user experience, regulatory compliance, and business goals while maintaining rapid velocity. Key Responsibilities: - Architect and iterate scalable, distributed solutions that support global traffic volumes. - Own feature life‑cycle from design through deployment, ensuring security, reliability, and performance. - Build and maintain tooling to enable developers and operational teams. - Expand and optimize third‑party integrations, including payment, analytics, and compliance services. - Elevate developer experience through best practices, documentation, testing, and observability. - Collaborate with product, design, compliance, legal, and operations to align technical decisions with business strategy. - Mentor junior staff and influence engineering culture as a potential future Principal IC or engineering leader. Required Skills: - 5+ years of professional software engineering with deep expertise in TypeScript, React, and Node.js. - Proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and SQL, including schema design and query optimization. - Strong systems‑thinking ability to design interdependent components under financial, regulatory, and UX constraints. - Proven experience writing high‑performance, low‑latency code; designing resilient retry, fallback, and routing mechanisms. - Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills; ability to articulate trade‑offs clearly. - Commitment to high code quality, rigorous testing, continuous integration, and observability. - Passion for ownership, end‑to‑end delivery, and building world‑class distributed systems. Required Education & Certifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience). - No mandatory certifications, though relevant technical credentials are a plus.
United kingdom
Remote
Senior
22-01-2026