HRTech
Hiring and people platforms that handle real recruiting volume
Applicant tracking, candidate matching, assessment and HRMS platforms — built for high-volume pipelines, fair evaluation and sensitive personal data.
Platforms we build
- Applicant tracking systems with configurable, multi-stage pipelines
- Recruitment marketplaces with verification and payments
- Candidate-matching and semantic search platforms
- Interview scheduling and structured assessment tooling
- HRMS and core people records systems
- Employee self-service portals and mobile apps
Sector challenges
What makes HRTech engineering different
Volume overwhelms the pipeline
A single role can attract hundreds of applications. Without structured screening and ranking, good candidates are lost to queue position rather than merit.
Candidate data is sensitive and regulated
CVs contain personal data with real retention obligations. Consent, deletion and access controls have to work correctly, not approximately.
Bias risk in automated screening
Automated ranking can encode historical bias. Explainability, auditability and human oversight are requirements, not enhancements.
Fragmented tooling across the funnel
Sourcing, scheduling, assessment, background checks and onboarding often live in separate systems that do not share a candidate record.
Drop-off in the application flow
Long forms, forced account creation and poor mobile experience cost applications before a recruiter ever sees them.
Digital solutions
What we build for this sector
Applicant tracking systems
Configurable pipelines, collaborative review, structured scorecards, interview scheduling and offer management, with a full audit trail per candidate.
Recruitment marketplaces
Two-sided platforms connecting employers and candidates or agencies, with verification, messaging, contracts and payment handling.
Candidate-matching platforms
Skill extraction and semantic matching between requirements and candidate history, with explainable scores and reviewable ranking factors.
Interview and assessment systems
Structured interview tooling, technical and behavioural assessment, recorded responses, scoring rubrics and calibration reporting.
HRMS platforms
Employee records, org structure, leave, performance cycles and document management, with role-based access across HR, managers and staff.
Employee portals
Self-service access to documents, policies, requests and approvals across web and mobile.
Recruitment workflow automation
Automated screening, scheduling, reminders, status updates, reference chasing and offer document generation.
Products and platforms
Systems we can build for you
Delivered as new products, as modules inside an existing platform, or as a modernization of something you already run.
- Applicant tracking systems with configurable, multi-stage pipelines
- Recruitment marketplaces with verification and payments
- Candidate-matching and semantic search platforms
- Interview scheduling and structured assessment tooling
- HRMS and core people records systems
- Employee self-service portals and mobile apps
- Recruiter and hiring-manager analytics dashboards
- Job board aggregation and distribution services
AI and automation
Where AI genuinely helps in HRTech
Applied where judgement is required and measurable. Everywhere else, deterministic software remains cheaper and easier to debug.
CV parsing and skill extraction
Turn unstructured CVs into structured, searchable profiles with normalised skills, experience and education — with confidence scores and a review path for low-confidence fields.
Explainable candidate ranking
Semantic matching between role requirements and candidate history, surfacing the specific evidence behind each score so a recruiter can verify rather than trust it blindly.
Interview support
Question suggestions from the role profile, transcription, and structured summaries mapped to a scorecard rather than free-text impressions.
Candidate communication
Drafted status updates, scheduling coordination and answers to common candidate questions, with recruiter review before anything is sent.
Pipeline forecasting
Conversion analysis by stage and source, highlighting where roles stall and which channels produce hires rather than volume.
Integrations
Systems we connect to
Integration work is usually where the estimate lives. We assess API quality and access early rather than assuming it.
- Job boards and aggregators (Indeed, LinkedIn, Google for Jobs)
- Calendar and scheduling (Google Calendar, Microsoft 365)
- Video interviewing (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet)
- Background check and right-to-work verification providers
- HRIS and payroll systems (Workday, BambooHR, Gusto, ADP)
- Identity providers for SSO (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID)
- E-signature (DocuSign, Dropbox Sign)
- Assessment providers and coding-test platforms
Security and compliance
What we design for, and what we do not claim
We build and document controls that support your obligations. Certification and legal sign-off come from your auditors and counsel.
Data protection by design
We design candidate data handling to support GDPR and similar regimes: lawful basis recorded, consent captured, retention schedules enforced automatically, and export and deletion available on request.
Automated decision transparency
Where scoring influences decisions, systems can be designed to record the factors used, retain them for review, and require human oversight before any adverse outcome.
Access control and audit
Role-based access with candidate-level audit logging, so who viewed or changed a record is always answerable.
Regional data handling
Data residency and cross-border transfer requirements can be supported through regional deployment and storage configuration agreed during architecture.
Independent verification
We build controls and evidence to support your compliance programme. Certification and legal sign-off come from your auditors and counsel, not from us.
Technologies
Typical stack for this sector
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Elasticsearch
- pgvector
- Redis
- AWS
- Stripe
- Auth0
Related
Where to go next
- HRTechSample content
An applicant tracking platform with explainable candidate matching
A recruitment platform where structured CV parsing and explainable matching cut screening time without removing recruiter judgement.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
Product Engineering
SaaS platforms, custom software and MVPs engineered for multi-tenancy, billing, security and the release cadence a growing product needs.
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