Vertx Talent
Technical Interviewer
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VERTX Talent · Remote · Contract, part-time
We need experienced engineers to run technical interviews for us on a sessional basis. You pick the slots that suit you, run a seventy-minute interview, write it up.
Expected rate per session please add with your application
Who it suits
Contractors between engagements. Engineers working part-time or on a career break. Former hiring managers and tech leads who liked the interviewing part of the job and stopped doing it. Anyone who has run several hundred technical interviews and would happily run a few more a week.
What you would be doing
Every engineer we place sits a timed assessment on a real codebase, not algorithm puzzles. Their submission is executed and scored before anyone speaks to them, and you get all of it: the code, the score, their CV, their public work.
Then you interview them.
- Read the submission before the call and prepare questions aimed at what you actually saw
- Run a sixty to seventy-five minute session on video with screen share
- Reach a defensible view of their seniority within the first ten minutes, then spend the rest testing it rather than confirming it
- Score against our rubric using behaviourally anchored criteria, not impressions
- Write it up the same day: evidence, level, and the reasoning behind it
- Occasional calibration sessions so scores mean the same thing across every interviewer
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
You are never going in cold, and you are never scoring a stranger's code without having read it.
The part that matters most
A meaningful proportion of candidates now arrive assisted. We need someone already fluent in this rather than learning it on our candidates.
You should be comfortable spotting response latency that does not match the difficulty of the question, answers that are complete and correct but structurally unlike anything the candidate has said unprompted, screen shares that get dropped or narrowed at the moment a question lands, sustained gaze away from the camera line, and CV claims that dissolve under one follow-up.
Just as importantly, you should know how to be wrong about this safely. Accusing an honest candidate is a worse outcome than passing a dishonest one, because it is unrecoverable and it is unfair. We want someone whose instinct is to design a question that settles it, write the evidence down neutrally, and let us decide.
Stacks
Python — Django, FastAPI
Node.js and TypeScript — Express, NestJS
React and Next.js
Java and Spring Boot
PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS
AI and ML in Python
What we are looking for
Essential
- Five or more years building software commercially, with real production ownership
- Substantial technical interviewing experience, in house, as a hiring manager, or at an assessment platform
- The ability to say clearly when a candidate is outside your competence
- Excellent written English. Your debrief is read by our clients' hiring managers
- Availability in the UK afternoon, a quiet space, and a stable connection
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Strongly preferred
- Prior work at an assessment, vetting or interviewing platform
- Experience of a formal levelling framework, or of calibration and inter-rater reliability
- Experience designing assessment content, not only delivering it
Terms
- Sessions run sixty to seventy-five minutes
- You choose your own availability. No minimum, no notice period
- If a candidate does not attend, the session is still paid
- Sessions are recorded, and you would sign an NDA, a non-solicitation covering candidates you meet through us, and a data processing agreement
- Fully remote
How to apply
Send a short message covering three things.
- Roughly how many technical interviews you have run, where, and at what levels
- Which of the stacks above you would interview at senior level, and which you would decline
- A time you were reasonably confident a candidate was being assisted, or was not who they claimed to be. What made you think so, what you did next, and how it was resolved. Tell us about one where you turned out to be wrong, if you have one.
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