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Technical Recruiter (f/m/x) with Tech Affinity: Build Our Tech Hiring

Berlin, Potsdam
Full or part-time
Permanent employee

Hi there!

We keep growing and want to fill numerous tech roles: backend, frontend, fullstack and DevOps. You will build and own our tech recruiting from first outreach to signed contract. Along the way, you design recruiting formats for tech people, try new things and shape a lot. You work closely with our People & Organisation team and report directly to our Managing Director & CFO.

Your future role

  • Own recruiting for all engineering roles (Berlin, Potsdam and Singapore), from requirements clarification to offer.

  • Start every vacancy with a hiring manager briefing and turn it into a clear role profile and a job ad engineers want to read.

  • Source where developers really are (GitHub, LinkedIn, Discord, communities) and run first interviews with technical understanding.

  • Run first-round coding challenges yourself: guide candidates through the task, ask the right follow-up questions and evaluate results against clear criteria. You handle the technical pre-screening before our engineers step in.

  • Coordinate the further interview rounds with our engineering teams, collect feedback and drive fast, well-founded decisions. Our engineers make the final technical assessment.

  • Manage offers and negotiations, and create a candidate experience that sticks, even for rejections.

  • Represent D4L in the tech community (meetups, events) and continuously improve our process, including challenge setup, evaluation criteria and tools.

What you need to succeed

  • Experience in tech recruiting or hands-on coding experience (e.g. Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go) and the drive to move into recruiting. Career changers are welcome, we will support you.

  • Strongly preferred: the ability to read and assess code, so you can run and evaluate first coding challenges yourself

  • Solid understanding of modern tech stacks and the ability to read a GitHub profile

  • Initiative, creativity and joy in experimenting

  • Fluent German and English

  • Nice to have: experience with assessment tools (e.g. Codility, HackerRank, GitHub-based challenges), a network in the tech community

Why you will love working with us

  • Real tech depth: Broad expertise across our tech teams, lean structures and complex products offer years of exciting challenges and opportunities to grow

  • Purpose: We are a non-profit working in software development and health data, and every hour you work serves our shared vision of making the world healthier.

  • Strong international partnerships and proximity to HPI: An environment that attracts bright minds

  • 30 days of annual leave, hybrid work (usually 3 office days per week in Berlin or Potsdam)

  • Mobility allowance (e.g. Deutschlandticket) and additional private health insurance

  • Generous learning & development budget and high-end IT equipment (e.g. Macs)

  • Salary: from approx. €60,000 gross/year (full-time), depending on experience and skills

Good to know

We especially welcome applicants from the LGBTQI+ community, people of color, people with a migration background, and people with disabilities or chronic illnesses.

If you need support during the application process (e.g. due to a disability), please let us know. We are happy to accommodate you.


Next steps:
Apply via our online application form [link] and share your CV and earliest possible start date. We’ll get back to you quickly. Questions before you apply? Fanny Hoffmann is your contact person.

About us

Data4Life is a nonprofit organization with the vision of making the world a healthier place. With an international team, we work together on the mission to digitize health research. By linking technology and research, we make health data available to research in a comprehensive, digital and secure way. Our interdisciplinary team in Potsdam, Berlin and Singapore brings together experts from fields such as product development, digital engineering, data security and science. Data4Life was founded in 2017 and is funded by the Hasso Plattner Foundation.

We care about Diversity: Many different lives, careers, and development paths lead to Data4Life. We welcome experts from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to our international team, offering everyone equal opportunities to be themselves and develop to the best of their abilities. Diversity, equality, and inclusion are not just nice words at Data4Life – we put them into practice in all of our activities and projects, striving to incorporate them in our everyday lives. For this reason, we signed the Charta der Vielfalt (Diversity Charter) in 2022.