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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

• Lead the design and evolution of mission-critical backend systems • Own architecture across multiple products, services, and engineering squads • Design scalable distributed systems capable of supporting millions of customers and high transaction volumes • Drive architecture decisions across product, platform, infrastructure, security, and data teams • Lead architecture and system-design reviews for high-impact initiatives • Balance immediate delivery needs with long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability • Identify systemic engineering challenges before they become organisational bottlenecks • Improve system reliability, performance, security, observability, and operational resilience • Lead the modernisation of backend platforms, legacy systems, developer tooling, and engineering workflows • Establish strong engineering patterns across microservices, event-driven architecture, API design, and domain-driven design • Coordinate complex technical initiatives across multiple teams • Align technical decisions with customer needs and wider business priorities • Resolve architectural disagreements through data, collaboration, and technical expertise • Strengthen CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud infrastructure, and automation • Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, design reviews, technical documentation, and mentoring • Write and lead technical proposals, architecture documents, RFCs, and engineering standards • Mentor Senior Engineers and help them develop towards Staff-level responsibilities • Share technical knowledge through workshops, engineering talks, documentation, and internal communities • Partner with Engineering Directors, Heads of Engineering, and Product Leadership on strategic technology investments

🎯 Requirements

• Strong professional software-engineering experience, including ownership of complex production systems • Expert-level backend development experience using Java, Golang, or both • Deep knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, API design, and domain-driven design • Experience designing and operating reliable systems at significant scale • Strong experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies • Experience with Redis and relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL • Experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL databases • Strong understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, and containerised infrastructure • Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure • Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and modern software-delivery practices • Strong understanding of reliability engineering, observability, security, performance optimisation, and operational resilience • A proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives involving multiple teams • The ability to influence technical direction without relying on reporting lines or formal authority • Strong systems thinking and the ability to look beyond individual features or services • Excellent architectural judgement and pragmatic decision-making • The ability to simplify complex technical problems and communicate decisions clearly • High ownership, accountability, and comfort working through ambiguity • Strong written and spoken English • Typically eight to ten or more years of professional software-engineering experience • Demonstrated ownership of multiple production systems or technical platforms • Experience leading architecture and delivery across several engineering squads • A strong record of influencing technical decisions beyond a single team • Experience improving engineering standards, internal tooling, and developer experience • Experience mentoring Senior Engineers and developing future technical leaders • Typically twelve or more years of professional software-engineering experience • Demonstrated ownership of technical strategy across an engineering domain or organisation • A track record of leading organisation-wide modernisation or engineering-transformation initiatives • Experience acting as a senior technical authority for architecture, standards, and strategic engineering decisions • The ability to influence Engineering Directors, Heads of Engineering, Engineering Managers, and other senior individual contributors • Previous experience within fintech, banking, brokerage, payments, investment, wealth management, trading, or cryptocurrency platforms • Experience designing high-availability platforms supporting millions of customers or high transaction volumes • Experience building low-latency, resilient, event-driven systems • Experience modernising legacy systems or leading large-scale platform and cloud migrations • Experience improving developer productivity through internal platforms, automation, tooling, or developer-experience initiatives • Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams • Experience working within regulated financial or technology environments • Experience partnering closely with infrastructure, security, data, risk, and product teams • Contributions to open-source projects, technical publications, engineering blogs, conference talks, patents, or technical communities

🏖️ Benefits

• High-impact ownership: shape the backend architecture supporting one of Indonesia’s leading investment platforms • Technical leadership: remain deeply technical while influencing multiple teams and business areas • Meaningful scale: solve complex distributed-systems challenges involving millions of customers and financial transactions • Organisation-wide influence: improve engineering standards, platforms, tooling, and technical culture • Complex challenges: work across investment, crypto, money, platform, and shared-services products • Leadership opportunity: mentor senior engineers and help develop Ajaib’s future technical leaders