Senior Tech Recruiter (ENG)

Build the tech community that accelerates bol’s technological edge

How do you make our customers happy?

By hiring the colleagues who will take bol’s tech capabilities to the next level. From backend engineers to ML specialists, from platform engineers to security experts—you find the talent that writes code, builds microservices, blocks hackers, and develops AI solutions that help 13.7 million customers enjoy a better shopping experience.

But you do more than just fill vacancies: you act as a strategic sparring partner for Tech leadership, understand where the organization is heading, and build pipelines for capabilities that may only become crucial twelve months from now.

The biggest challenge

Hiring tech talent in an extremely tight market. The best engineers are approached daily by big tech, scale-ups, and consultancies. How do you position bol as an attractive employer for developers who could just as easily choose another major tech platform or trending AI startup? How do you recruit for roles that continuously evolve because GenAI is fundamentally reshaping the work?

What you do as Senior Tech Recruiter

You formally report to the Recruitment Manager and collaborate daily with the Lead Recruiter Tech. You serve as a strategic recruitment partner for multiple tech domains, ranging from front-end to back-end, and from Security to AI.

You work closely with engineering managers and tech leads, have the mandate to advise on talent decisions, and identify capability gaps before they turn into bottlenecks. You immerse yourself in the tech organization, understand roadmaps, know team dynamics, and recognize which skills will become scarce tomorrow.

With that knowledge, you build pipelines and advise on workforce planning. You use your understanding of the tech labor market—including shifts in AI, cloud, and security—to spot talent before the competition catches on.

AI will soon take over parts of recruitment. Great, because your real added value lies in what machines can’t do: understanding complex stakeholder needs, assessing team fit, and building relationships that convince top candidates to choose bol.

In short:

• Advise the business: who do we need and when?
• Build candidate pipelines through smart sourcing, including passive talent pools
• Identify talent risks and capability gaps before they become issues
• Translate tech trends (AI, cloud, security) into concrete hiring implications
• Collaborate with Employer Branding on tech-focused campaigns
• Initiate and lead impactful projects within the recruitment team

Why you can make a difference

You bring 5+ years of recruitment experience and a genuine affinity for technology and the people who work with it. You speak the language of engineers, understand the difference between a backend and a platform engineer, and can discuss microservices without anyone zoning out.

You follow tech trends, from the latest AI models to cloud market shifts, and can translate insights into actionable recruitment strategies.

You are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive when the framework isn’t fully defined. You excel in project-based work and can align stakeholders even when priorities differ.

3 reasons why this is (not) for you

• Reactive recruiter: You wait for hiring managers to knock; proactive stakeholder management feels exhausting.
• AI underestimator: You think AI is a neat toy and will never impact recruitment.
• Clone believer: You think teams of identical people outperform teams with diverse backgrounds.

• Tech-native: You know how tech organizations operate and easily connect with managers and developers.
• Pipeline Builder: You don’t wait for vacancies—you proactively build relationships with talent that may be needed in the future.

Where you’ll land

You’ll join the Recruitment team within People& and focus on bol’s tech organization: the domain where the code is written that impacts 13.7 million customers and 46,500 partners. The GenAI revolution is transforming both what we build and how we work. That makes recruitment more challenging and more impactful.

Do you want to make a decisive contribution to that? Welcome to the team!

Perks

On and off

At bol we understand like no other that you have to take care of yourself first, then your environment and then bol. In that order. Therefore, everyone at bol receives 29 days of vacation.

Relocation

Bol wants to ensure that you make the best possible transition. We offer relocation assistance to the Netherlands from the moment you have the job.

Bonus

The bonus is calculated at the end of the year and we always end the year with a fun party!

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