About the Technical Recruiter role
A Technical Recruiter hires engineers, data professionals, and other technology talent. The job goes beyond posting ads: most strong technical candidates are not applying anywhere, so the recruiter sources them directly, earns their attention, screens for both skills and motivation, and guides them through interviews and offers in a market where they usually hold competing options.
What makes the role distinct is technical fluency. A good Technical Recruiter does not need to write code, but they must understand the difference between a backend and a platform engineer, ask credible screening questions, and translate hiring manager requirements into search strategies. In agencies the emphasis is speed across many clients, while in-house recruiters go deeper on employer brand, pipeline building, and interview process quality.
In your posting, name the roles and technologies the recruiter will hire for, the expected number of hires per quarter, and who owns technical assessment. Strong technical recruiters evaluate employers the way engineers do, so specificity about the team and tools signals that your hiring operation is mature.
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Job brief
We are hiring a Technical Recruiter to find and close the engineers we need. You will source directly rather than wait for applications, run credible first conversations, keep candidates moving through the process, and negotiate offers against real competition.
This suits somebody technically curious enough to hold a conversation with an engineer without bluffing, organized enough to keep a pipeline honest, and persistent enough to follow up a fourth time when the first three went unanswered.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering managers to define role requirements, seniority, and realistic candidate profiles
- Write compelling, accurate job descriptions for technical roles and post them to relevant channels
- Source passive candidates through direct outreach, developer communities, referrals, and Boolean search
- Run screening calls that credibly assess technical background, motivation, and compensation expectations
- Coordinate technical interviews and assessments, and brief interviewers on what to evaluate
- Manage candidate pipelines in the ATS with clean stages, notes, and follow-up dates
- Advise hiring managers on market compensation, talent availability, and process bottlenecks
- Craft and negotiate offers for candidates who often hold competing options
- Track funnel metrics such as response rate, pass-through rate, and offer acceptance, and act on them
- Build talent pipelines and employer brand presence for hard-to-fill and recurring roles
Requirements and skills
- Has hired technical people, in-house or agency, and can talk through specific placements
- Understands how engineering teams are built and what the common roles actually do
- Sources hands-on: search strings, sequences, and the communities candidates use
- Runs a structured screen and coordinates technical assessment without slowing it down
- Keeps an applicant tracking system clean enough to report from
- Negotiates calmly when a candidate has two other offers on the table
- Tracks the funnel and can explain where candidates drop and why
- A relevant degree, or the practical experience that replaced one
Nice to have
- Experience hiring for your specific domain, such as machine learning, mobile, or infrastructure
- Familiarity with technical assessment platforms and structured interview design
- Experience recruiting internationally or for remote-first teams across time zones
- A network in local or online developer communities you can activate for referrals
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