Jobs Companies OfferZen Technical Vetting Contractor

About this Technical Vetting Contractor role at OfferZen

OfferZen · South Africa

The Opportunity

We're on the lookout for leads and managers who have experience hiring tech professional to join OfferZen’s Code Council. Think of it as paying it forward💡

As a Technical Vetting Contractor, you’ll help assess real candidates looking for tech jobs by reviewing tech assessments and conducting technical interviews. Only free to do one tech assessment per week? That's fine. Want to do two every day? Great! This is a flexible arrangement that allows you to commit as much time as you're able.

This role is for you if you care about raising the bar in tech, and like the idea of being part of a community that values quality, fairness, and great engineering,

What you’ll do

  • Conduct candidate technical vetting.
    • Reviewing AI generated Assessments for specific positions.
    • Review & Grade candidate assessment submissions.
    • Conduct technical Interviews with candidates who pass the assessment.
    • Provide summaries (write-ups) of the candidate that can be submitted to the Customer.
  • Provide feedback to the Head of Technical Vetting on our technical vetting rigour and process.
  • Collaborate with the product team to improve platform tools and insights for tech vetting.
  • Document and maintain guidelines for assessments, scoring, and summaries.

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have:

  • Technical assessment ability: Strong judgment in evaluating assignment submissions and conducting technical interviews across multiple tech stacks.
  • Attention to detail: Accurate, high-quality assessments and summaries. Identifies subtle signals in technical skills (eg: code, process flow, automation) and communication.
  • Interviewing skills: Can run structured technical interviews that assess both hard skills and problem-solving approaches.

Background:

  • 5+ years as a senior tech professional, we're on the look out for:
    • Senior Software Engineers, Leads or Managers with experience in C++, and/or, C#/.NET, and/or MERN stack, and/or Golang
    • Senior Data Engineers (or Leads, Managers)
    • Senior Data Scientists, Data Analysts  (or Leads, Managers)
    • Senior DevOps / Platform Engineers (or Leads, Managers)
  • Extensive experience conducting technical interviews and reviewing assessments. 
  • Demonstrated ability to identify high-quality candidates.

The OfferZen Story

OfferZen is on a mission to connect every developer with opportunities to build an awesome future. Check out our website for more.

We promise:

  • No death-by-meeting.
  • Flexible gigs, on your time.
  • Good vibes only.

*This role can be based locally or remotely - we welcome all applicants based in South Africa.

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About OfferZen

The OfferZen Story

OfferZen is on a mission to improve the experience of finding work for people involved in making software, from developers to designers and data scientists through the utilisation of our world class online recruitment marketplace. We do this by flipping the traditional recruitment model on its head and getting companies to reach out to candidates with upfront offers.

Over the last 6 years, we have managed to make a large dent in the South African online tech recruitment marketplace – and we're speeding up. We have a team of 120+ people with offices in both Cape Town and Amsterdam. At 6 years young, we’re still in an exciting start up phase which allows us to develop new and exciting ideas, innovate our product, and think creatively about solving real problems.  

What it's like to work here

We love to do fun stuff together. We are focused on building a connected tribe and a sense of belonging. We value unique and diverse approaches and ensure we create opportunities to share and learn from each other. We have regular online events, show and tells and a book club as well as regional and annual off-site events.

We're dedicated to authenticity: We treat people as people, caring personally and speaking openly. We foster low-ego behaviour - we own our mistakes as well as our victories. We're never about blame. We're always about honesty, learning and continuous improvement. We ensure lots of transparency and visibility. From OKRs and strategy to analytics and company performance numbers, it's all available for you to see and understand.

We're passionate about learning and levelling up: Everyone at OfferZen strives for a growth mindset. We read books, listen to podcasts, share expertise obsessively, then take on hard challenges with smart guidance and support. When things go wrong, we look for the learning and how to improve.

We’re all about balance: We believe that maintaining a healthy balance between home and work is the key to feeling happier and more productive. We work fully remote and also offer 20 days of leave a year which are available to use from the time you start. 

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