Location: Downtown Toronto (In-office / Hybrid)
Core Responsibilities
End-to-End Execution: Own the full recruitment lifecycle for all engineering and technical roles. You will source, screen, schedule, and close top-tier talent in the highly competitive Toronto market.
Protect the Bar: Act as the gatekeeper for talent density. Work with technical leadership to calibrate requirements, design rigorous interview loops, and facilitate debriefs that ensure consistent, high-quality hiring decisions.
Build the Engine: Implement and own the underlying recruiting infrastructure (ATS management, metric tracking, pipeline forecasting). You will treat hiring as a highly instrumented system, tracking pass-through rates, time-to-hire, and interviewer load.
Strategic Sourcing: Build a comprehensive, warm network of Toronto’s best backend and data engineers. Craft highly personalized, compelling outbound messaging that reflects the company's engineering caliber.
Close Complex Offers: Navigate competitive offer situations and clearly articulate the value of early-stage equity to senior candidates.
Requirements
What We’re Looking For
Startup DNA: 5+ years of in-house technical recruiting experience, with a significant portion spent in early-stage, high-growth startup environments.
Technical Fluency: You can easily differentiate between someone who just uses data tools and someone who genuinely builds large-scale distributed systems. You can hold credible, engaging conversations with Staff-level engineers.
Proven Closer: A documented track record of winning top-tier engineering talent away from competing offers in competitive tech hubs. You are highly fluent in startup equity mechanics.
Metrics-Driven: You run your pipeline like a sales funnel. You know your conversion numbers and build predictable hiring forecasts.
Autonomous & Scrappy: You are comfortable working without a massive recruiting ops team behind you. You leverage AI and modern tooling in your workflow to automate administration and maximize your strategic time.
Local Network: A strong existing network within the Toronto tech and engineering ecosystem.
Benefits
Work Environment & Benefits
Total Rewards: Strong base salary paired with meaningful equity.
Comprehensive Benefits: Top-tier health/dental, flexible spending accounts for wellness and professional development, a new MacBook setup, and 4 weeks of paid vacation.
Skills Required
- 5+ years in-house technical recruiting experience, with early-stage/high-growth startup experience
- Proven track record closing senior and staff-level engineering candidates in competitive markets
- Technical fluency to evaluate candidates building large-scale distributed systems and streaming architectures
- Experience designing rigorous interview loops and calibrating hiring bar with technical leadership
- Ownership of recruiting infrastructure: ATS management, metric tracking, pipeline forecasting
- Metrics-driven hiring approach with knowledge of conversion rates and time-to-hire forecasting
- Ability to negotiate and close complex offers, including clear understanding of startup equity mechanics
- Comfort working autonomously in a lean team and leveraging AI/modern tooling to automate processes
- Strong existing local network within the Toronto engineering and backend/data community
What We Do
Calliere is a boutique professional and executive recruitment and advisory firm that helps organizations build high-performance teams. It specializes in sourcing leadership, engineering, data science and AI, healthcare technology, infrastructure, telecom, sales, and business-development talent. The firm serves clients across technology, fintech, healthcare, life sciences, infrastructure, and other sectors through a personalized, thorough, results-driven approach tailored to each client's specific hiring and organizational needs.
