About the role
As a Technical Recruiter, you will own end-to-end hiring for engineering and product roles, playing a critical role in shaping the future of our technical teams. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product hiring teams to deeply understand hiring needs, define clear role profiles, and build strong, scalable recruitment processes that support our growth.
You’ll proactively source and engage technical talent across backend, frontend, QA, infrastructure, data, and product disciplines, while running structured, efficient interview processes that prioritize both hiring quality and candidate experience. With strong technical literacy, you’ll confidently assess technical depth, problem-solving ability, and behavioural signals to ensure we consistently raise the hiring bar.
What you’ll be doing
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Own full-cycle recruitment for engineering and product roles
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Proactively source senior technical talent across backend, Frontend, QA, infrastructure, data, and Product
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Screen candidates for both technical depth and problem-solving ability
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Partner closely with engineering and product leaders to define hiring needs, priorities, and profiles
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Run structured, efficient interview processes with a strong focus on candidate experience
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Manage and maintain clean, accurate pipelines and hiring data in the ATS
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Share regular insights on hiring progress, pipeline health, bottlenecks, and market trends
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Constantly working towards raising the overall hiring bar
What you’ll bring
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3+ years of full-cycle in-house recruiting experience, ideally in a startup or scale-up environment
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Proven track record hiring engineers across engineering and product verticals
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Strong technical literacy, comfortable discussing distributed systems, backend stacks, cloud infrastructure, and modern AI tooling
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Confident owning the entire recruitment lifecycle, including proactive sourcing and closing
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Strong hiring judgement, able to assess both technical capability and behavioural signals
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Data-aware and structured, using funnel metrics and pipeline health to guide decisions
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Highly autonomous, with a strong ownership mindset and bias toward action
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Fluency in English is essential
Requires 3+ years of full-cycle in-house recruiting experience, technical hiring expertise, technical literacy, recruitment lifecycle ownership, hiring judgment, data awareness, autonomy, and English fluency.
Key Responsibilities
- recruiting engineers
- sourcing candidates
- managing pipelines
Skills & Tools
Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
Job Details
- Category: Human Resources
- Seniority: Mid Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — Europe or South Africa
- Languages: English
About Sporty Group
A technology company operating digital sports and gaming platforms. — Industry: Information Technology