About Jumpstart
Recruitment sucks. It really does:
* Candidates hate the job hunt (ghosting, endless job descriptions, endless rejections).
* Startups hate hiring (hard to find top candidates, hiring mistakes are costly)
Recruiters are meant to fill this gap. They can optimise for either speed or quality, but cannot do both.
Jumpstart does. How?
* We ensure quality by creating an excellent user experience (e.g. via Dragons’ Den esque pitches) that attracts 5000+ applicants every month. We carefully handpick the top 1-2% and onboard them onto our platform.
* We ensure speed with our tech platform that enables candidates and startups to matchmake immediately.
* Indeed, startups tell us what they think of us - see our ‘wall of ❤️’
We have doubled revenue in 2025, placing c.400 candidates. Our model works, is scalable, and we have been profitable from day one.
Oh and we’ve done all of this without having to take on any external investment. That means no investors breathing down our necks.
About the Role
TL/DR
We are looking for a CTO or Senior Engineer to help Jumpstart break into the world of technical hiring - setting up the systems and processes we need to select and place the best junior to mid level engineers at startups.
A bit of context
* Jumpstart has primarily been focused on non-technical hires (e.g. ops, generalist, sales, marketing) with strong penetration in the seed & series A startup market
* We have LOTS of demand from our startup partners for help with technical hiring (starting with junior to mid level as this is where we are best placed to execute)
* However, we need a real expert who has (a) worked for a number of years as a Software Engineer in a startup and (b) has hired and recruited engineers to help us make this happen
Core activities
* 🔈 Candidate acquisition & marketing: whether it be through content, direct sourcing, hackathons, or events - experimenting with the best way to find the top candidates for these startups. You will be able to leverage the Jumpstart brand & content creation resources to get there
* 🏆 Candidate selection: use your expertise to find the best way to evaluate these candidates to make sure they are truly exceptional AND want to build in early stage startups
* 🚀 Feedback loops & driving success: working with candidates & the CTOs at our startups to work out what makes them tick (and earn yourself some ££, more on this below)
About You
Must have
* At least 5 years experience as a Software Engineer in startups, ideally as a CTO or building from 0-1
* Experience hiring & managing Software Engineers, especially at a junior to mid level, with a clear idea of what does or doesn’t work
* Keen interest in the startup talent space, with strong opinions on how we could make this work!
* Ability to fully commit to at least 3 months. We need someone who can fully commit, doing everything from posting on LinkedIn to garner interest, to running technical challenges and hackathons with potential candidates
What we’ll offer in return
💸 Financial compensation:
* Base salary of £7,000 per month (i.e. £84k annualised)
* 50% of any fee Jumpstart earns on a Software Engineer placed, which would be approx. £5000 per hire, although this would be uncapped - so unlimited upside!
* If you help us place 5 engineers in 3 months (for context, we place c.50 candidates per month currently so very doable), this would be a total package of £46,000+ for 3 months work (£180k+ annualised)
💻 Working directly with our founder & CTOs:
You will work directly with our co-founder Kabir on a day to day basis, as well as with our massive network of 500+ CTOs looking to hire our candidates.
📈 Building 0-1:
This role is IDEAL for a CTO or technical person who is looking to found in the future, and wants to learn how set an operation up from scratch, from a team who has done this very successfully so far with a VERY sticky customer base. See below for a message sent from one of our customers in anticipation…