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Tech recruitment, by techies, for techies.™

UK | Europe | Americas | APAC
Joined June 2013
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*** 𝗛𝗢𝗧 𝗢𝗙𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦: 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗘 *** AI Remediation Engineer | High-growth SaaS startup | London, UK | 3+2 | £100,000 + bonus | Immediate start ➡️ Mission-critical role acting as the conduit between senior business stakeholders and our tech guys. ➡️ Work closely with our senior engineers (we can’t remember the last time we hired a junior). ➡️ Enjoy full ownership and the autonomy to redesign our architecture from first principles. ➡️ Untangle all the spaghetti code we’ve vibe coded into production. 𝘖𝘒 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘺... 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺? 𝘐𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬. #AI #vibecoding #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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Chupacabra, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster. Pah, table stakes. The real cryptids live in tech 👉 ⚫ A Kubernetes cluster that nobody describes as fragile. ⚫ A Terraform plan with no surprises. ⚫ A Dockerfile comfortably under 1GB. ⚫ A YAML file that worked without an indentation fight. ⚫ An SSL certificate renewed before it expired. ⚫ A staging environment that actually matches prod. ⚫ An infrastructure diagram that’s still accurate. ⚫ A load balancer config nobody is scared to change. ⚫ A developer who reads the deployment logs before pinging you. ⚫ A service mesh that made things simpler. ⚫ A DNS issue that turned out not to be DNS. And rarest of them all? A DevOps Engineer who wants to spend 3 days per week in the office. If that's you, then take a closer look at this role at a fast-growing scaleup in central London: mongoosejobs.com/jobs/542157… #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #SRE #startup #scaleup #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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Another week, another ground-breaking AI recruitment tool. A few prompts, and boom! the perfect candidate delivered into your inbox. Just like that. This one’s big promise? Freeing recruiters from those “pesky first-round calls.” Pesky? That first call is one of the most important parts of the entire hiring process. It’s where you build trust. Qualify. Surface concerns. Manage expectations. Get a real sense of the person behind the CV. Everything that follows is built on it. So why on earth would you hand it over to a cold, soulless avatar? #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs #MakeItMakeSense
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We’ve been the hiring manager. Drowning in 30 profiles from Keyword Bingo Talent Ltd. All thrown over the wall. Hoping one sticks. “Any of these any good?” isn’t a service. It's spam. Billed at 20% and then some. So we flipped the model. Now we’ve switched sides and play by one rule 👉 Every CV we send is offer-ready. Anything less stays on the desk. Here’s the deal: ⏰ 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲. Skip the deep dive. We’ve sat in your seat so we know what good looks like. 💰 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆. Fewer interviews. Stronger hires. We’ve done these roles ourselves. 🎰 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. Straight talk on market, comp and fit. Zero spin. Before a CV hits your inbox, we’ve already: ✅ Nailed the role, the team and the stack. ✅ Tested the skills, not just the keywords. ✅ Checked motivation, culture fit and timing. The result? 3 “hell yeahs” not 30 “maybes” 🎉 Building a team? Let’s talk. #TechRecruitment #TechTalent #Hiring #Startups #Scaleups #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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Channel your inner Marilyn Monroe and work on the UI layer of our product suite. Your user interfaces don’t just work. They turn heads. Looks aren’t everything. But in frontend engineering, they’re the first thing. You have serious CSS appeal and an eye for pixel-perfect beauty. Read more about this Junior AI Product Engineer role at: mongoosejobs.com/jobs/641024… #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs #productengineer #frontenddevelopment #AI
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“How much are carrots these days?” Our favourite interview question. We ask it when we suspect an AI is feeding the answers. The signs are always there. The pause. The textbook polish. The flat, clinical, robotic cadence. The right answer? “WTAF?” Or something close. Say that and you’re halfway to the shortlist. Start with “The current average market price of carrots in London is…” And the interview’s over. #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs #techrecruitment #ai
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Hold up. Forward deployed what? Waiter → Forward Deployed Nutrition Delivery Engineer. Plumber → Forward Deployed Fluid Infrastructure Lead. Dog walker → Forward Deployed Canine Uptime Engineer. Postman → Forward Deployed Last-Mile Document Delivery. Bouncer → Forward Deployed Access Control & Identity Management. Well, we’re hiring a locksmith. Or... Forward Deployed Security Engineer. Someone who can run a client workshop in the morning and a product strategy session in the afternoon, no sweat. Cyber x product x customers. That’s your lane. Think that’s you? See more at: mongoosejobs.com/jobs/603654… #InfoSec #techjobs #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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𝗔𝗜 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗨𝗦 𝗔𝗟𝗟 Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows. Either way, your eye-catching portfolio should be ready. And until the robot overlords arrive, there’s still time to grab yourself a spot on this rocket ship. The ask? A talented Web Designer aka Chief Wow Officer for an AI-pilled, high-octane SaaS scaleup that’s growing faster than your browser can refresh. Apply now: mongoosejobs.com/jobs/554745… Civilisation may depend on it! (It doesn’t. But our website does.) #webdesigner #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs [ 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘦.𝘤𝘰 ]
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AI has made building 0-to-1 easier than ever. So it’s no surprise “Founder” is popping up on more and more CVs. And plenty of those founders are now knocking on our door for permanent roles. If that’s you, your first job is simple: explain the WHY. Why are you swapping late-night pizza and triple espressos for a lunchtime chicken wrap and a matcha latte? Spell. It. Out. Because if you don’t, we’ll assume the worst i.e. business isn’t going well, and you need a pit stop while it recovers or you get the next side hustle off the ground. Harsh? Maybe. But without evidence to the contrary... Our clients love entrepreneurial flair. They just don’t want to be your rebound relationship. #techrecruitment #startups #scaleups #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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Top Tech Talent doesn’t care about your industry awards. Or your mission statement. Your values. Your origin story. Epic culture? Ping pong table? Free beer Fridays? Yawn. And that, ahem, “exciting opportunity”? Sure, whatever, heard it all before. Here’s the only question that matters to them 👉 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗲? Your proposition has to be... Not worse (obviously). Not the same. Not slightly better. 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 better than what they’ve got right now. Top Tech Talent never runs out of options. Unhappy? They move. So by the time you slide into their DMs, they’ve already levelled up. They’re not stuck in a dead-end job. They’re not on the sofa gaming, waiting for your call. Finding them? Easy. There’s a shiny new AI tool for that. Convincing them? That’s the hard bit. Why? Because you’re probably too close to it. The blood, sweat, tears, 2am pizzas and triple espressos will do that to anyone. So take a step back. See your offer through your ideal candidate’s eyes. And the wider market in general. Not sure how to do that? Get yourself a recruitment partner who does 😉 #techrecruitment #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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Every day brings a new AI-powered recruitment tool promising to find you the perfect job, or the perfect candidate, in a few prompts. It’s not happening. Now we’re told AI agents will do all the work for you. That’s not happening either. 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴. To be fair, this is where AI earns its keep. We’ve used several of the better-known tools to uncover candidates we might otherwise have only stumbled across. But finding people was never the hard part. That’s actually the easy bit. 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴. Be wary of any tool that claims to qualify candidates automatically. Based on what, exactly, a few keywords? You might get lucky now and then, but real qualification takes judgement. The kind of judgement built by working closely with a client across multiple searches, not by feeding AI mission statements and employee handbooks. 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴. Forget it. Persuading someone that your opportunity will genuinely change their life takes attunement, prudence, emotional intelligence, cultural sensitivity and discretion. Everything that AI is light years away from. #AI #techrecruitment #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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More noise. Less signal. Everyone looks the same now. Everyone sounds the same. (Thanks, Claude.) Half of LinkedIn has "AI" bolted onto their job title. So spotting top talent is harder than ever. How are companies responding? More stages. Two interviews and a decision? Gone. Three rounds is the new minimum. Then add the technical assessments. It's the same story on the other side of the Big Pond. And they were already running longer processes to begin with. So if you're struggling to land top talent, the answer's obvious. Add more stages. Or get yourself a better recruitment partner 😉 #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs #techrecruitment
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For us, this doesn't work. But what do we know? We're not branding gurus. Guess it all depends on the 𝚛̶𝚊̶𝚌̶𝚎̶ strategy. To us this new logo says professional services firm, not racing team. It's safe and corporate when it should scream... Fast. Exciting. Dangerous. Burnt Rubber. What do branding peeps think? #mclaren #branding #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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"We're looking for someone with 5 years of experience in an LLM released in 2025.”
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Customer Success Engineering is the new Customer Success Management. Want proof? Check out this CSE role at a hypergrowth SaaS scaleup: mongoosejobs.com/jobs/533171… #SaaS #CS #CustomerSuccess #CustomerSuccessEngineering #CSM #CSE #AI #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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If SaaS were an exam board, this question would be on every paper: "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘊𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳. 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘴." #CustomerSuccess #AgeOfAI #SaaS #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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"Need a 4th for padel tonight, who's free?” Might just be the most 2026 WhatsApp group message. Padel is tennis for people who got tired of running. Tennis is where you run a mile to hit a ball twice. As our Principal AI Engineer, you’ll be running the show. We don’t care if you’re an athlete or a socialite. Or both. Just as long as you’re good at your job and have a great time doing it. Padel players think they're socialites. Tennis players think they're athletes. Both are wrong. Both are having a great time. Think you can smash it out of the park? Get in touch explaining why we’d be a good match. 𝗣𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗹-𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿. Details at: mongoosejobs.com/jobs/570086… #padel #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs
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Is this the de facto standard CV template now? Clean. Polished. Easy on the eye. Bingo. But see the 10th one before your second coffee, and the impact dilutes fast. Be careful out there. Authenticity and originality wins every time. Increasingly so in this brave new AI-tastic world. #mongoosegray #mongoosejobs #CV #resume
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