Senior Information Technology Recruiter

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Recruiter to lead technology hiring across three of our most active European markets: the UK & the Netherlands. You'll own the full recruitment lifecycle for engineering, product, and data roles while navigating very different legal frameworks — UK Skilled Worker sponsorship & Dutch Highly Skilled Migrant rules programme . What You'll D
o
You'll partner with engineering and product leaders to build hiring strategies for each market — recognising that what works in Amsterdam doesn't work in London, and that London's senior engineer market behaves nothing like Porto's. Day to day, you'll source through LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and country-specific communities (Tech Nation alumni networks in the UK, Silicon Canals and Techleap in the Netherlands, Landing.jobs
).
Beyond sourcing, you'll run structured interviews, coordinate technical panels, negotiate offers, and guide candidates through onboarding. Critically, to coordinate with legal and HR stakeholders for these tas

• ks:
  UK: Working with our sponsor licence to issue Certificates of Sponsorship under the Skilled Worker ro
• ute.Netherlands: Managing applications under the Highly Skilled Migrant scheme through

IND.
You'll also draft and review employment contracts with local counsel, ensure GDPR-compliant candidate data handling across all three markets, manage probation and notice period clauses that differ significantly between countries (UK's "reasonable notice" vs. Netherlands' statutory notice scales), and partner with our EOR providers where we don't have an en t ity. What We're Lookin g For Must-h

• aves:
  8+ years of full-cycle recruiting, with at least 4 years in tech roles (Software Backend Engineers, Data Engineers, DevOps &
• AI/ML)Demonstrable experience hiring in at least two countries — UK & Nether
• lands.Working knowled
• ge of:UK sponsor licence compliance, Certificate of Sponsorship issuance, and Home Office reporting
• dutiesDutch IND recognised sponsor obligations and the practical realities of the 30%
• rulingGDPR-compliant candidate data handling — this is non-nego
• tiableTechnical literacy: you can read a backend role spec and tell the difference between a candidate who built distributed systems and one who's use
• d themExperience with modern sourcing
• toolsFluent English. Dutch are strongly preferred — at minimum, conversational ability in one. Working knowledge of the other is a significan

t plus The personality
piece:
This role lives or dies on communication and cultural fluency. You'll need to hold a conversation with a staff engineer about system design tradeoffs in the morning, walk a Brazilian candidate through Portuguese tax residency over lunch, and negotiate a London offer with someone whose spouse is doing the maths on the 30% ruling by afternoon. We're looking for genuine warmth, sharp judgment, and the confidence to push back when a hiring brief is unrealistic or a process is st a lling. Nice t

• o have:
  Experience with EOR providers (Deel, Remote, Velocity Global, Mul
• tiplier)Background in fintech, healthtech, or other regulated
• sectorsPrior in-house experience at a high-growth
• scale-upFamiliarity with works councils (ondernemingsraad) in the Net

h erlands Why
Join Us
Competitive base salary (banded by location — London, Amsterdam all benchmarked locally), performance bonus, equity, flexible hybrid working, generous learning budget, and the chance to genuinely shape how we hire across three markets rather than running someone else's playbook