Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Engineering

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At Preply, we’re all about creating life-changing learning experiences. We help people discover the magic of the perfect tutor, craft a personalised learning journey, and stay motivated to keep growing. Our approach is human-led, tech-enabled - and it’s creating real impact.

We’ve just reached unicorn status with a $150M Series D, accelerating our vision to transform education through human-led, AI-enhanced learning. Today, 100,000+ tutors teach 90+ languages to learners in 180 countries - and we’re only getting started. As a category-defining company, we’re shaping what the future of learning looks like at global scale.

Every Preply lesson sparks change, fuels ambition, and drives progress that matters. Joining Preply means helping define the future of education at global scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.

Meet the team!

Talent Acquisition at Preply is a high-performing, ambitious team that’s deeply embedded in the business. We are obsessed with raising the bar - constantly iterating, innovating, and learning together to be best-in-class. We’re technology driven, data-informed, and we think critically about our business and map, engage and prioritize according to customer and business outcomes. But we also care deeply about collaboration, thinking team-first, and supporting each other along the way. Building an iconic company should be fun 🙂.

We’re now looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Engineering, to join our Tech & Product TA team. You’ll play a critical role in hiring exceptional talent across our tech and engineering functions. You’ll bring deep recruiting expertise, a strategic mindset, and a love for building effective, scalable processes. This role is about more than filling roles; it’s about helping shape the future of Preply’s tech and product organization.

About this role

As Preply continues to scale, Engineering remains at the core of our product, growth, and future. We're looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to own hiring for some of our most complex and highest-impact Engineering searches - think niche specialisms like SRE, Security, and senior Engineering Manager roles - while raising the bar for how the wider team sources, assesses, and closes technical talent.

This is an individual contributor role for someone who is already excellent at the craft: someone who can run a search end to end, push back credibly on senior engineering stakeholders, and bring data and process thinking to hiring rather than just executing against a brief. You'll work closely with Engineering Directors and Hiring Managers, and with the TA Manager Engineering to help shape how the function calibrates, sources, and improves over time.

It's a great fit for someone who has outgrown a purely execution-focused recruiting role and wants to take on the toughest positions in the pipeline, while also having a wider footprint - coaching peers, contributing to calibration, and helping fix what isn't working.

What you’ll be doing:

Own complex, hard-to-fill Engineering searches end to end : manage full-cycle recruitment for our most senior and niche roles, where the market is thin and the bar is high.

Partner with senior Engineering stakeholders : build credible relationships with Engineering Directors, VPs, and Hiring Managers - understanding their needs, challenging assumptions where needed, and advising on realistic hiring strategies.

Source actively and creatively : build and execute targeted sourcing strategies for passive, senior technical talent, using tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and Stack Overflow, and adapting your approach as roles evolve.

Bring data into every decision : track your own funnel health, conversion, and time-in-stage, and use that data to diagnose what's working and flag what isn't - both in your own roles and, where relevant, across the wider Engineering pipeline.

Contribute to calibration and hiring bar consistency : help refine scorecards, participate in and support calibration sessions, and act as a reference point for what "good" looks like across a large interviewer panel.

Raise the bar beyond your own roles : support process improvements, interview training, or employer branding initiatives that benefit the whole Engineering hiring function, not just your own pipeline.

Coach and share knowledge : act as an informal sounding board for less experienced TA Partners working through difficult roles, offer declines, or pipeline blockers.

Deliver a strong candidate experience : represent Preply well to a highly selective, in-demand talent pool, especially in AI/ML and other specialist domains.

What you need to succeed:

Strong technical recruiting craft : several years of experience recruiting for Engineering roles at scale, with a track record on genuinely difficult, niche, or senior searches - not just high-volume mid-level hiring.

Real stakeholder gravitas : experience partnering with senior engineering leaders, and evidence you've pushed back on requirements or bar when needed, not just executed what was asked.

A track record of wider impact : you've contributed to something beyond your own roles - calibration, interview training, process improvement, mentoring - that shows chapter-wide or company-wide thinking.