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Techy Recruiter

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2018

🤝 B2B

🎯 Recruiter

☁️ SaaS

B2B • Recruitment • SaaS

Techy Recruiter is a tech recruitment consultancy founded by Tarek Mahdy that embeds into startup and scale-up teams to run end-to-end hiring functions. It offers embedded recruitment (retainer-based full-cycle hiring), sourcing-as-a-service (outbound sourcing, market mapping, AI-assisted boolean searches), and hiring process design (ATS setup, interview frameworks, scorecards, automation). The firm focuses on funded startups and product-led tech companies across the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Portugal, wider EU, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, with specialties in Web3, fintech, and SaaS. Services include sourcing, screening, interviews, offer management, stakeholder coaching, and onboarding/handoff of repeatable hiring processes. Founder has 10+ years in talent acquisition and the company emphasizes modern tooling, structured interviews, and automation.

📋 Description

• Define and lead Ajaib’s application-security programme across mobile, web, APIs, and backend services • Build application-security standards, processes, and controls across the software-development lifecycle • Partner with engineering and product teams to embed security into product design and development • Lead threat-modelling sessions for new products, features, architectures, and integrations • Conduct security architecture reviews, code reviews, and application-security assessments • Own and improve SAST, DAST, software-composition analysis, secrets detection, and dependency-scanning capabilities • Integrate application-security testing into CI/CD pipelines • Identify, prioritise, and track vulnerabilities through remediation and verification • Work with engineering teams to provide practical remediation guidance and secure coding recommendations • Coordinate penetration testing, security assessments, and responsible-disclosure activities • Strengthen security across mobile applications, APIs, authentication flows, customer accounts, and sensitive transactions • Help investigate application-related security incidents and support root-cause analysis • Define application-security metrics, reporting, and risk indicators • Deliver secure-development training and build security champions within engineering teams • Mentor application-security engineers and help grow the team’s technical capabilities • Stay current with emerging vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and security risks affecting financial and investment platforms

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in application security, product security, security engineering, or penetration testing • Experience leading application-security initiatives or mentoring security engineers • Strong knowledge of mobile, web, API, and backend application security • Experience securing applications built on modern cloud and distributed architectures • Deep understanding of common application-security risks, including the OWASP Top 10 and OWASP API Security Top 10 • Hands-on experience with threat modelling, secure code review, vulnerability assessment, and penetration testing • Experience using and implementing SAST, DAST, software-composition analysis, and secrets-detection tools • Familiarity with mobile application security across Android and iOS • Ability to understand code in one or more modern programming languages • Experience integrating security checks into CI/CD and developer workflows • Strong understanding of authentication, authorisation, session management, encryption, and secure API design • Ability to communicate security risks clearly and provide practical, developer-friendly solutions • Strong written and spoken English.

🏖️ Benefits

• High-impact ownership: shape application security across a growing financial platform • Hands-on influence: work directly with engineers and improve how products are designed, built, tested, and released • Meaningful challenges: secure mobile applications, APIs, customer accounts, investment data, and financial transactions • Security at scale: help build processes and automation that grow with the business • Leadership opportunity: mentor engineers, build a security-champion culture, and help define Ajaib’s application-security standards