Technical Recruiter

iwoca; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Medical insurance

Private GP

Holiday allowance

Birthday day off

Extra leave buy/sell

Sabbatical

Counselling

Pension plan

Equity incentive

Parental leave

Nursery benefit

Electric car scheme

Cycle to work

Company retreats

Learning budget

Treehouse access

Job summary

iwoca is looking for a Technical Recruiter to own recruiting for engineering, data science and product areas. You will shape role briefs, run outbound sourcing, calibrate trade-offs, and own the end-to-end process from discovery to execution, with an emphasis on evidence-based decisions and continuous improvement.

The role involves collaborating with the Tech Talent team to source across TAP functions and to build scalable hiring workflows using AI tools, while maintaining high candidate

Qualifications

• Experience recruiting software engineers and data scientists, with ability to assess CVs for specialism, seniority and relevance.
• Proven outbound sourcing campaigns and market mapping.
• Ability to justify decisions and trade-offs with clear reasoning.
• Bias for action and ability to drive end-to-end hiring processes.

Responsibilities

• Shape role briefs with hiring managers and calibrate market expectations.
• Run outbound sourcing across software engineering, data science, strategy and product.
• Design outreach that elicits responses from candidates and improves conversion.
• Develop scoring frameworks and feedback loops with interviewers.

Skills

Technical hiring

Sourcing

Judgement

Make stuff happen

Communication

Technical fluency

Analytical mindset

Data science hiring

Product/strategy hiring

Privacy standards

Job description

As a Technical Recruiter, you'll focus on engineering, data science, and product roles through discovery, calibration, and execution. You'll solve hiring problems from first principles, with reasoning that is defensible.

• Discovery and judgement. You'll shape role briefs with hiring managers, weighing trade-offs between seniority, scope, skill mix, and what the market will realistically supply. You'll change the process when it doesn't match the role.
• Sourcing and candidate standards. You'll run outbound sourcing across software engineering, data science, strategy and product, mapping the market and designing outreach that candidates actually reply to. You'll calibrate what good looks like in panel debriefs, and tune the candidate experience to the role.
• Scale and measurement. You'll run a feedback loop on your own work - scoring recommendations against frameworks, tracking passthrough rates, and calibrating against downstream interviewer feedback. Each cycle sharpens your judgement. You'll build the workflows and prompts that scale you and the team, and keep Ashby accurate so colleagues can self-serve pipeline data.
• Experimentation and improvement. You'll experiment with hiring methods - AI tools, outreach formats, job description iterations - and judge what's worth adopting. You'll balance this with delivering your roles.
• Autonomy and growth. You'll run your roles end-to-end from day one, with the expectation of growing into a domain expert - defining what good looks like, developing hiring strategy, and advising stakeholders on high-impact decisions.
• The requirements Essential:
• Technical hiring. You've recruited software engineers, and you can assess engineering CVs on specialism, seniority, credibility, and relevance.
• Sourcing. You've run outbound sourcing campaigns. You build market maps, test outreach approaches, and reach candidates who wouldn't apply directly.
• Judgement. You prioritise where you spend your time - which candidates, which roles, which methods. You adjust to new evidence, and you can explain your reasoning clearly.
• Make stuff happen. You take initiative, keep it moving, and have a bias for action.
• Communication. You write and speak clearly, directly, and concisely. You explain complex trade-offs in plain terms.
• Technical fluency. You treat tools and systems as figure-out-able, and pick up new tech fast. You use AI and judge its output critically.
• Bonus:
• Analytical mindset. You think systematically and methodically. You gather data, seek feedback, and adapt to new evidence.
• Data science hiring. You've hired data scientists working on applied machine learning; probabilistic models for decision‑making.
• Product or strategy hiring. You've hired for product or strategy roles in tech companies where analytical thinking is central.
• Privacy standards. You understand candidate data standards - GDPR, data minimisation, handling personal data. You treat candidate information as sensitive by default. Small businesses move fast. Opportunities often don't wait, and cash flow pressures can appear overnight. To keep going, and growing, SMEs need finance that's as flexible and responsive as they are.

That's why we built iwoca. Our smart technology, data science and five-star customer service ensures business owners can act with the speed, confidence and control they need, exactly when it's needed. We've already cleared the way for 100,000 businesses with more than £4 billion in funding. Our passionate team is driven to help even more SMEs succeed, through access to better finance and other services that make running a business easier. Our ultimate mission is to support one million SMEs in their defining moments, creating lasting impact for the communities and economies they drive. The team The Tech Talent team hires for iwoca's Tech, Analytics, and Product (TAP) functions - we own the briefs, the sourcing, the assessment, and the standards. We're a team of three, part of a broader talent team of eight, hiring across TAP (around 200 people and growing). Heads of Engineering, Data, and Product rely on us to shape hiring direction, and our work directly impacts the teams who build our products, systems, and customer experience. We focus on high-calibre talent - people who raise the bar and improve the teams they join. Data and structure keep our hiring objective and measured, and we share knowledge and challenge each other's thinking to raise standards. We use Ashby as our ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter and Welcome to the Jungle for sourcing, and several tech-specific job boards for advertising, with Claude as our main AI tool., At iwoca, the best idea wins. We model our culture on independent thinking, challenging untested logic, and evidence-based decisions. We prioritise learning and growth, and give people the autonomy to develop in the direction that makes them most effective. We're a tech company and believe in the power of AI to help us work faster and better. We provide the infrastructure where every iwocan always has access to the best models and where those models have access to all of our data. We will help our people to learn how to use and grow with the new tools available to them.

The offices We put a lot of effort in making iwoca a great place to work:

• Offices in London, Leeds, Berlin, and Frankfurt with plenty of drinks and snacks.
• Events and community-led groups, including running groups, padel, and monthly ping-pong and pool competitions.
• We expect to pay from £50,000 to £70,000 for this role. But, we're open-minded, so definitely include your salary goals with your application. We routinely benchmark salaries against market rates, and run quarterly performance and salary reviews., The benefits
• Flexible working hours.
• Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership.
• A private GP service (separate from Vitality) for you, your partner, and your dependents.
• 25 days' holiday per year, an extra day off for your birthday, the option to buy or sell an additional five days of annual leave, and unlimited unpaid leave.
• A one-month, fully paid sabbatical after four years.
• Instant access to external counselling and therapy sessions for team members that need emotional or mental health support.
• 3% Pension contributions on total earnings.
• An employee equity incentive scheme.
• Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you save money.
• Electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme.
• Two company retreats a year: we've been to France, Italy, Spain, and further afield.

And to make sure we all keep learning, we offer:

• A learning and development budget for everyone.
• Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers.
• Access to learning platforms like Treehouse.