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. 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 integral scale, and building something that truly matters for millions of people, every day.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. 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. About this roleAs 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.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.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.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.you know how to build and run a sourcing strategy for senior, specialised technical talent.Data fluency: comfortable tracking and interpreting your own recruiting metrics, and using them to explain decisions and diagnose problems.7+ years of recruiting experience, with meaningful time spent as a senior technical recruiter or equivalent.Keep perfecting - To create an outstanding customer experience, we focus on simplicity, smoothness, and enjoyment, continually perfecting it as every detail matters.Growth mindset - We proactively seek growth opportunities and believe today's best performance becomes tomorrow's starting point. Raise the bar - We raise our performance standards continuously, alongside each new hire and promotion. Challenge, disagree and commit - We value open and candid communication, even when we don’t fully agree. We believe that the presence of different opinions and viewpoints is a key ingredient for our success as a multicultural Ed-Tech company. KyivEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeHybridDepartmentTalent Acquisition

📌 Talent Acquisition Partner, Engineering (Barcelona)
🏢 Preply
📍 Barcelona