How we work with recruiters

As a growing business with an extremely high talent bar, we recruit on a continuous basis. If the right candidate comes along, we'll always look to find or create the right position for them.

We understand that highly talented developers are in demand and are happy to match the pace of our process to the candidate's preferences, even if that means arranging interviews on consecutive days.

We believe that every stage of our process is crucial to ensuring we maintain our high talent bar and give candidates ample opportunity to explore whether we're the right match for them. This does mean that we expect candidates to go through each stage of our process. We hope that the right candidates for us are happy and reassured that we invest so heavily in our recruitment practices.

Other than for graduate positions, we don't ever have a fixed salary range for an opportunity. In general, we will select the right person for an opportunity, and then consider what they are worth to us. This is always determined individually based on the candidate's capabilities.

Due to our highly collaborative ways of working, our roles are entirely office based. You can find more information on our fantastic new offices here.

In general, we do not fixate on years of experience. We are far more interested in someone's aptitude and potential than how long they have been working.

For software engineering roles, we hire people with 20+ years of experience, and straight out of university, and everything in between. For non-engineering roles, we will discuss specific requirements with individual agencies.

We recognize that academics aren't everything, particularly for more experienced candidates, but they help us to get a well-rounded view of individuals. For graduates, we may focus more on academics as they are unlikely to have a level of professional experience that would indicate their skills.

Please visit our application process page if you would like further information.

Please submit applications via email.

Sorry, it is essential that we communicate directly with candidates. Since our culture, ways of working, and requirements are so different than anywhere else, we have found that only unmediated communication can be fully effective.

We will always behave in an ethical manner and we have no interest in cutting agencies out of a deal. We only want to reach and hire the very best candidates. It is far more likely that candidates, and therefore agencies, will be successful if we are in direct communication.

We strive to foster a strong feedback climate for all our PortSwigger people and potential candidates alike. We believe that providing written feedback on each candidate enables recruiters to refine their search in future, and provide us with even more suitable candidates.

Sorry, our terms are not negotiable.

Please email careers@portswigger.net and someone from our hiring team will be in touch. We are a small talent team that collaborates with a large number of agencies, so sending any questions you have for us via email is the fastest way to get a response.

We also run periodic recruitment workshops for agencies who would like to engage in discussions with members of our hiring team. If you'd like to attend the next workshop, please let us know on careers@portswigger.net.