Senior Tech Recruiter

Summary

Join Octopus Electric Vehicles, a leading electric car leasing company, as a Technical Recruiter for a 6-month fixed-term contract. You will be part of a 3-person in-house talent team, focusing on technical hiring across Software Engineering, Product, Data, and Design. The role involves sourcing, screening, and progressing candidates through the interview pipeline, building proactive sourcing strategies, and partnering with stakeholders. You will build relationships with candidates and constantly improve the candidate experience. The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of in-house technical recruiting experience in a high-bar environment, experience hiring software engineers in London, and excellent organizational skills. Octopus offers a unique culture and various perks.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years in an in-house technical recruiting role, in a high bar environment. We don't use agencies, so candidates will come from sourcing and applications
• Experience hiring software engineers in London, you are familiar with the best tech houses and have a good candidate network
• Super organisation skills, and an ability to prioritise
• You love to work with all kinds of people - you’ve got no functional shoulder pads - it’s not ‘my team versus other teams’, it’s ‘we’re all working together to change the energy system globally, and I’ll lend anyone a hand’
• You'll need to interview candidates, so previous experience screening and assessing candidates across a variety of roles for both hard skills and cultural qualities is needed

Responsibilities

• Source, screen and progress candidates through the interview pipelines - hiring London based or UK remote software engineers (full stack, backend and frontend)
• Build proactive sourcing strategies for strategic technical roles - be innovative with sourcing techniques to identify passive candidates e.g. networking, events etc
• Partnering closely with stakeholders to provide an 'executive search' experience
• Build great relationships with candidates, with a view of short and long term hires
• Constantly provide an amazing candidate experience and look to always improve this across the team
• Work collaboratively across the wider recruitment team
• Take a consultative approach to recruitment - focusing on speed, quality and diversity

Benefits

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us!
• Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground
• We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about!
• Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024 . We were named 6th out of the top 100 start-ups to work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022