Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (Engineering)

About Dwelly

Dwelly — a UK-based, AI-enabled lettings and property management platform, that is growing through a roll-up strategy acquiring estate agencies. The company leverages two arms: i) acquiring existing letting agencies, effectively buying its highly sticky, recurring revenue-type landlords portfolios, and then ii) building a top-notch technology to automate tenant management, payments, and post-rental property maintenance. The company seamlessly integrates AI services to automate all business processes within brick-and-mortar real estate agencies, integrating them into a tech-enabled digital letting platform in two months to radically improve the user experiences and increase efficiency of the business.

We’re a fast-growing, product-focused company, backed by top-tier investors and led by a team with deep experience in real estate, technology, and operations.

Position Summary

We’re looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner (Engineering) to build and scale our engineering organisation.

This is a high-impact, strategic role — not just delivery. You will own the engineering hiring roadmap end-to-end, partner directly with founders and senior engineering leaders, and set the bar for how we hire technical talent.

You’ll be expected to operate with high ownership, drive hiring strategy, and ensure we consistently attract and close top-tier engineering talent in highly competitive markets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end hiring for Engineering roles (AI, Backend, Frontend, Full Stack, Data, Infrastructure, etc.)
• Partner with engineering leaders to define hiring strategies and ideal candidate profiles
• Build proactive sourcing strategies to attract top engineering talent
• Conduct structured recruiter screenings, assessing technical fundamentals and motivation
• Manage relationships with external recruitment agencies:
  
  • Provide clear role briefs
  • Monitor pipeline quality and delivery
  • Ensure agency alignment with our hiring standards
• Continuously analyse the engineering talent market and adjust attraction strategies to stay competitive
• Maintain ATS hygiene and provide clear pipeline visibility to stakeholders
• Ensure an excellent and professional candidate experience

Requirements

• 5-7+ years of experience recruiting for Engineering roles
  
• Proven track record of hiring software engineers in competitive markets worldwide
• Strong understanding of technical roles and ability to assess engineering fundamentals during screening
• Experience managing and partnering with external recruitment agencies
• Highly organised, structured, and detail-oriented
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, scaling environment
• Bachelor’s degree or higher education qualification
• Startup mentality: resilience, adaptability, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary with the potential for equity options based on performance, recognising exceptional contributions to our integration success.

What is it like being a Dwell-er?

Feel free to check out Dwelly Core Principles. That’s about what we believe in, how we operate and make decisions.

What we offer is not a fancy office or a static workplace. Instead, this is solving one of worlds’ most complex problems in the largest consumer industry in the world (residential rentals), to improve the experience for >30% of households (>5M in the UK, and >100M including EU and US) that live in rental homes.

This is about disrupting the largest, most antiquated industry in the world, with one of the strongest operational and technical teams that exist in the UK and the EU. We work hard, and we shoot for extremely ambitious results. But we want people to be proud of what they’ve built and be able to look back and say one day “hell yeah, that was me that did it all”.

• Customer obsession rather than competitive focus
• Passion for invention
• Operational excellence
• Long-term thinking