💼 Recruitment Consultant (180°) – High-Performance Tech Talent Hunter

📍 Remote | 🕒 Full-time | 💰 Base Salary + Commission

🌍 Eastern Europe & Russian-speaking Talent Focus


👋 Who We Are

Folks.Rocks is a founder-led headhunting firm specializing in high-performance technical hiring.
We partner with teams building ultra-low-latency, high-stakes systems in domains like HFT, crypto infrastructure, advanced ML/AI, and Web3 protocols.

We’re deeply technical, with an engineering background ourselves — which means we speak the language of developers, understand client needs on a deeper level, and go beyond buzzwords.

Our strongest placements come from Eastern Europe and the Russian-speaking tech scene — developers known for solid fundamentals, clean code, and straight talk.


🎯 What You'll Be Doing (180° Model)

No client chasing. Just talent hunting.
  • Source and recruit C++, Rust, ML/Crypto engineers for performance-critical systems
  • Focus on top-tier Russian-speaking and Eastern European talent
  • Manage the entire recruitment pipeline (from outreach to offer)
  • Craft Boolean searches and personalized outreach across LinkedIn, Telegram, email
  • Coordinate interviews and handle candidate communication
  • Own the invoicing process and track progress
  • Keep improving through hands-on mentorship, playbooks, and training
  • Always act in the agency’s best interest — quality > speed


🧩 Who You Are

  • Background in IT recruitment/sourcing, ideally within a staffing agency
  • Bonus: sales or outbound leadgen experience (you know how to engage cold leads)
  • Experience recruiting for the US or European market
  • Comfortable sourcing deeply technical talent — backend, data, infra
  • Fluent in English, Russian is a strong plus
  • You’re money-motivated, curious, and coachable
  • No social anxiety — cold calls, cold messages, objections? You’re ready


📌 What We Focus On:

We specialize in hiring core technical people building high-performance systems:

1. Core Tech Talent
C++, Rust, Crypto/ML Engineers

2. Infrastructure Roles
DevOps, QA, Analysts

3. Back-office Roles
Traders, Tier-2 Devs, Assistants

4. Executive Roles
CTO, VP of Engineering, Tech Leads

Industries: Hedge Funds, Prop Trading, DeFi, Crypto Infrastructure, Payments


💰 What You Get

  • Competitive base + commission per hire
  • Warm pipeline — you won’t need to find clients
  • Daily contact with real technical teams solving hard backend/data problems
  • Hands-on mentorship from a technical founder (10+ years in backend/data)
  • Remote work setup, async culture, zero micromanagement
  • Career growth into team leadership and strategic roles

📩 Ready to be part of a sharp, niche, results-driven hiring team?
Send your CV or intro to info@folks.rocks