Techy Recruiter
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.
Offensive Security Lead
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Techy Recruiter
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 offensive security strategy, roadmap, and testing programme • Conduct hands-on penetration testing across mobile applications, web applications, APIs, backend services, cloud environments, and internal systems • Plan and execute red-team exercises and adversary simulations based on realistic threat scenarios • Identify complex attack paths across applications, infrastructure, identity systems, and third-party integrations • Test authentication, authorisation, session management, account recovery, transaction flows, and customer-protection controls • Perform security assessments of new products, features, architectures, and high-risk integrations • Evaluate the effectiveness of security controls, monitoring, detection, and incident-response capabilities • Partner with engineering and security teams to validate remediation and confirm that vulnerabilities are fully resolved • Provide clear, practical remediation guidance that helps teams reduce risk without slowing delivery • Develop custom testing tools, scripts, payloads, and automation to improve offensive-security coverage • Coordinate external penetration tests, specialist assessments, and independent security reviews • Support responsible-disclosure and bug-bounty activities, including triage, validation, and remediation tracking • Create high-quality reports that explain technical findings, business impact, attack scenarios, and recommended actions • Define offensive-security metrics, testing standards, and risk-prioritisation methods • Mentor offensive-security engineers and help grow the team’s technical capability • Share attack trends, lessons learned, and defensive recommendations with security and engineering teams • Stay current with emerging vulnerabilities, attacker techniques, exploitation methods, and threats affecting financial platforms
🎯 Requirements
• Strong experience in penetration testing, red teaming, offensive security, or security research • Experience leading offensive-security engagements or mentoring security professionals • Deep technical knowledge of web, mobile, API, cloud, infrastructure, and identity security • Hands-on experience identifying and exploiting complex vulnerabilities and chained attack paths • Strong understanding of common application and infrastructure weaknesses, including the OWASP Top 10 and OWASP API Security Top 10 • Experience testing authentication, authorisation, access control, cryptography, transaction flows, and business logic • Strong knowledge of network protocols, operating systems, cloud environments, containers, and modern application architectures • Experience with manual testing techniques as well as offensive-security tools and frameworks • Ability to write scripts or tools in languages such as Python, Go, JavaScript, or Bash • Experience producing clear technical reports and presenting risk to engineering leaders and senior stakeholders • Strong understanding of responsible testing practices, rules of engagement, and safe exploitation • Ability to balance technical depth with business context and risk prioritisation • Strong written and spoken English.
🏖️ Benefits
• High-impact ownership: shape and lead offensive security for a growing financial platform • Hands-on technical work: test real-world systems across mobile, APIs, cloud, identity, and infrastructure • Meaningful mission: help protect customers, investments, personal data, and financial transactions • Real influence: work directly with engineering and security teams to drive measurable improvements • Challenging attack surface: assess complex products spanning stocks, crypto, and U.S. investment services • Leadership opportunity: build offensive-security standards, mentor the team, and strengthen Ajaib’s security culture
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