Technical Recruiter
Remote$125k - $190kFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Engineering Recruiter at Zip focusing on sourcing, engaging, and hiring software engineering talent (backend, frontend, full-stack) and collaborating with senior leadership to build a scalable recruiting process for Zip’s growth.
Responsibilities
- Effectively identify, attract, and engage top Software Engineering candidates through creative sourcing strategies and talent mapping.
- Source and maintain a large, high-quality pipeline across high-priority Software Engineer roles, balancing volume and specialization.
- Partner with Zip’s founders, Head of Engineering, and senior leadership to define hiring needs, ideal candidate profiles, and go-to-market recruiting strategies.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers by providing market insights, competitive intelligence, and data-driven recommendations.
- Screen, vet, and guide candidates throughout the interview and hiring process while keeping candidate experience top of mind.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and People teams to drive alignment and land successful hires.
- Lead compensation conversations and offer negotiations, including startup equity packages.
- Track recruiting metrics and performance to continuously optimize processes, improve conversion rates, and scale hiring effectively.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with candidates, hiring managers, and senior leadership to influence decision-making and hiring outcomes.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a focus on Software Engineering roles (backend, frontend & full-stack)
- Proven success hiring for other Engineering roles such as Data Engineering, Security Engineering, Machine Learning, Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, and AI Engineers.
- Ability to influence and build trusted relationships with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to represent Zip’s story and value prop to top talent.
- A strong sense of ownership and passion for delivering excellent results with speed and precision.
- Highly proactive, resourceful, and solutions-oriented, thriving in ambiguity and a fast-moving startup environment.
- Detail-oriented and organized, comfortable managing multiple requisitions and competing priorities simultaneously.
- Strong experience working with ATS platforms; Ashby experience preferred.
- Familiarity with compensation structures and negotiating startup equity packages.
Skills
Required:Software engineering recruitingCandidate sourcing and pipeline managementStakeholder managementInterview and negotiation facilitationATS experience
Benefits
- Start-up equity
- Full health, vision & dental coverage
- Catered lunches & dinners for in office employees
- Commuter benefit for in office employees
- Team building events & happy hours
- Flexible PTO
- Apple equipment plus home office budget
- 401k plan
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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