Technical Vetting Contractor

OfferZen; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Part time

Job summary

A leading tech recruitment platform is seeking a Technical Vetting Contractor to help assess developers through technical assessments and interviews. This flexible role welcomes applicants from South Africa, ensuring you can commit as much time as you're able. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of experience in software engineering, strong assessment and interviewing skills, and a commitment to high-quality evaluations. Join the community of tech professionals at the forefront of hiring excellence.

Benefits

Flexible gigs

Positive work environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a senior software engineer or equivalent technical role.
• Extensive experience conducting technical interviews and reviewing code assignments.
• Demonstrated ability to identify high-quality candidates.

Responsibilities

• Conduct candidate technical vetting.
• Review and grade candidate assessment submissions.
• Conduct technical interviews with candidates who pass the assessment.
• Provide summaries of the candidate that can be submitted to the Customer.
• Provide feedback on technical vetting rigour and process.
• Collaborate with the product team to improve tech vetting tools.

Skills

Technical assessment ability

Attention to detail

Interviewing skills

Job description

We're on the lookout for tech leads and managers who have experience hiring developers and other tech professionals to join OfferZen’s code council. Think of it as paying it forward💡

As a Technical Vetting Contractor, you’ll help assess real devs looking for jobs by reviewing tech assessments and conducting technical interviews. Only free to do one tech assessment per week? That's fine. Want to do two every day? Great! This is a flexible arrangement that allows you to commit as much time as you're able.

This role is for you if you care about raising the bar in tech, and like the idea of being part of a community that values quality, fairness, and great engineering,

What you’ll do

• Conduct candidate technical vetting.
  • Reviewing AI generated Assessments for specific positions.
  • Review & Grade candidate assessment submissions.
  • Conduct technical Interviews with candidates who pass the assessment.
  • Provide summaries (write-ups) of the candidate that can be submitted to the Customer.
• Provide feedback to the Head of Technical Vetting on our technical vetting rigour and process.
• Collaborate with the product team to improve platform tools and insights for tech vetting.
• Document and maintain guidelines for assessments, scoring, and summaries.

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

• Technical assessment ability: Strong judgment in evaluating assignment submissions and conducting technical interviews across multiple tech stacks.
• Attention to detail: Accurate, high-quality assessments and summaries. Identifies subtle signals in code and communication.
• Interviewing skills: Can run structured technical interviews that assess both hard skills and problem-solving approaches.

Background:

• 5+ years as a senior software engineer or equivalent technical role.
• Extensive experience conducting technical interviews and reviewing code assignments.
• Demonstrated ability to identify high-quality candidates.

The OfferZen Story

OfferZen is on a mission to connect every developer with opportunities to build an awesome future. Check out our website for more.

• Flexible gigs, on your time.
• Good vibes only.

*This role can be based locally or remotely - we welcome all applicants based in South Africa.

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