BlueOptima is growing fast! Our unique product provides objective software development productivity metrics. The technology has been implemented by some of the world’s largest organisations including insurance companies, telecoms and nine of the world’s top twelve Universal Banks. Our HQ is in London, UK, and we have international offices in New York, USA and Bangalore and Gurgaon, India. Whom are we looking for? We are looking for highly driven and ambitious individuals to help grow our Engineering teams in India: Gurugram and Bengaluru. A proven track record in recruiting outstanding Software Engineering talent is a must. Location: Bengaluru Responsibilities and Duties Manage a team of 5 technical recruiters Source candidates for BlueOptima's vacancies in Gurgaon and Bengaluru Create and maintain job advertisements to attract the best talent Understand what it takes for a candidate to be successful at BlueOptima and appropriately shortlist applicants Interview prospective candidates Maintain our Applicant Tracking System Coordinate with Hiring Managers and Head of Talent to deliver on headcount goals Qualifications and Skills Hands-on experience in a recruitment environment, agency or in house. Strong experience in recruiting for wide range of software engineering roles Experience in fast growing businesses is ideal Bachelors degree in Computer Sciences or Equivalent experience in industry. Why work for BlueOptima? International team with highly-motivated, informal and friendly culture Opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success Annual company wide retreats Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment How to Apply Our recruitment process comprises three stage to practically test candidates’ abilities: Send your CV, including a paragraph about your suitability for the role. If you are shortlisted, we will ask you to complete a work sample test to assess your recruiting skills and ideas, and you will need to complete a short piece of written work. If this work is to a high standard, we will invite you to interview with your eventual manager.

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About BlueOptima

Founded :

2006

Type :

Product

Size :

100-500

Stage :

Profitable

About

The analytics platform provided by BlueOptima makes it possible for software developers and the companies they work for to develop superior software in the shortest amount of time and at the lowest cost imaginable. Actual Coding Effort is the sole objective productivity indicator for software developers, and BlueOptima is the only solution in the world that measures software developer productivity using this metric. This is a defining event in the history of software development.

The software as a service (SaaS) platform offered by BlueOptima allows corporations to do productivity and quality analysis of their software development in terms of people, teams, tasks, projects, divisions, and outsourced suppliers. Managers are better equipped to maximize efficiency when they have a thorough understanding of the performance differences that exist across an organization. It has been shown that BlueOptima can locate cost reductions in software purchases of up to twenty percent. Companies can cost-optimize their software efforts as early as is practically possible thanks to BlueOptima's extra capabilities in benchmarking and recruiting.

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