Technical Recruiter (FinTech, Scale-Up) - Paying up to £50k

Hawkwood l People & Talent Recruiting; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading fintech scale-up as a Technical Recruiter in London, where you will play a key role in hiring for Engineering, Product, and Data teams. Benefit from hybrid working, flexible perks, and a strong focus on diversity in recruitment. This role emphasizes direct sourcing and the overall candidate experience, contributing significantly to the growth of the organization.

Benefits

Flexible benefits pot

Private medical and dental

Wellbeing support

Dedicated L&D budget

Clear internal mobility and opportunities to grow

Qualifications

• Experience recruiting for technical roles.
• Strong skills using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter.
• Comfortable working independently and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end recruitment for Engineering, Product, and Data roles.
• Proactively source and engage candidates.
• Deliver exceptional candidate experience throughout the hiring journey.

Skills

Direct sourcing

Proactive search

Talent mapping

Building pipelines

Job description

Technical Recruiter

Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days in office)

Industry: FinTech

Type: Full-Time

Hawkwood are currently partnering with a purpose-driven, fintech scale-up who are looking for a Technical Recruiter to support growth across Technology teams.

Our client is an established player within their niche and has grown from a disruptive start-up to a profitable and resilient brand, with strong backing and an international footprint. Operating at the intersection of finance and technology, they have successfully built a platform that’s reshaping the landscape of lending.

The Role:

As a Technical Recruiter, you’ll play a key role in hiring across Engineering, Product and Data teams.

You will work as part of a close-knit Talent Acquisition team of three, becoming a key part of a lean, high-performing department.

This is a direct sourcing role where you’ll work closely with Talent Partners, drive the full recruitment lifecycle, and focus on quality, speed, and candidate experience. The role will have a strong focus on building high-quality pipelines and filling roles quickly and effectively.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Support end-to-end recruitment for Engineering, Product and Dataroles.
• Proactively source, engage, and assess candidates using creative direct sourcing strategies.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout the hiring journey, from first outreach to offer stage.
• Build and maintain high-quality pipelines, with a strong focus on diversity and inclusive hiring practices.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition Lead to continuously test, refine, and adopt new sourcing strategies and channels to improve hiring outcomes.
• Use data to inform sourcing decisions, track progress, and report on key recruitment metrics.
• Support interview processes, including interviewer alignment and coordination, to ensure efficient and values-led hiring

About You:

• Experience recruiting for technical roles on behalf of tech companies. Applications from a pure agency background would be a great fit for this role.
• Strong direct sourcing skills with a focus on proactive search, talent mapping, and building pipelines using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, Welcome to the Jungle, browser plug-ins and other sourcing platforms.
• Skilled at building and maintaining diverse hiring pipelines. DEI is important to our client, and they are always striving to improve hiring practices to ensure they can reach the widest audience possible.
• Comfortable working independently but loves collaborating with a wider TA team.
• Organised, fast-moving, and enjoys working in a scaling environment.

Why Join?

• Hybrid working: 3 days per week in our newly refurbished London HQ
• Flexible benefits pot: tailor perks to suit you and your family
• Private medical and dental, wellbeing support, fertility assessments, EAP, flu jabs
• Dedicated L&D budget, access to learning platforms, and coaching
• Enhanced parental leave policies and carer support
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car schemes, discounted gym memberships, and more
• Progression - clear internal mobility and opportunities to grow

We recognise how challenging this current job market is for candidates, and Hawkwood are therefore striving to provide the best candidate experience we can.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we kindly request that you apply via this LinkedIn advert, as opposed to sending us an email or LinkedIn direct message. We are eager to ensure that each candidate application is considered fairly, and receives a consistent experience.

Unfortunately, we cannot ensure this standard if you enquire about a role via email or LinkedIn message, as it falls outside of our established process.