About this role
Proxify — Principal Engineer, Technical Assessment
As our Principal Engineer, Technical Assessment, you'll own how Proxify identifies exceptional engineers in this new reality.
You will create better ways to understand how applicants think, build, review, debug, and make decisions. This may include technical interviews, tests, realistic work simulations, AI-enabled methods, and new formats that do not exist yet.
This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will own the direction end-to-end: what we evaluate, how we evaluate it, and how we scale it. Nobody is handing you a spec. You will report to the VP of Assessment and work closely with different teams influencing our technical evaluations today.
Your work will shape the experience of thousands of applicants every month.
What you’ll do
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Own technical vetting across our engineering roles and seniority levels, turning strong on-the-job performance into clear, measurable signals.
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Design evaluations. Build interviews, tests, work simulations, and scoring guides, including formats that do not exist yet.
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Rethink evaluations for the AI era. Decide what matters when software engineers work with AI agents daily: directing and reviewing an agent, catching wrong output, debugging code they didn't write.
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Use AI in the work itself. Build and maintain technical content, improve consistency between interviewers, and support better decisions at volume.
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Prove what works. Connect evaluation results with real engagement performance, filter signal from noise, A/B test, and scale what works.
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Make it hold at scale. Set the standards and quality controls for fair evaluations across thousands of applicants a month.
What we’re looking for
A strong hands-on software development background and deep expertise in at least one technical area.
Strong analytical skills. You’re data-driven and understand reliability, consistency, bias, and predictive value.
Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools, and a clear view of how they are reshaping software development.
A practical point of view on where technical evaluation should go, and how you’d test it.
The communication skills to set direction and influence people without formal authority.
Why join and why this role matters
Get this right, and the right engineer gets a career-defining opportunity, and clients get stronger teams. Get it wrong, and you already know what that costs.
You'll work at the intersection of software development, AI, data, and product. You will have the freedom to challenge old hiring habits, test better ideas, and build the system that decides how technical talent gets recognized.
Practical details
Location: Remote in Europe, with visits to our HQ in Stockholm.
Language: English, C1 level or higher.
Level: Lead. A direction-setting individual-contributor role.
Department
Business
Remote status
Fully Remote
Business
· Stockholm (HQ)
· Fully Remote
Redefine how exceptional engineers are identified: design and validate fair, AI-era assessments using real performance data, and shape the future of technical hiring at scale.
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