How to Find Tech Jobs on Company Career Pages

Job boards are convenient, but they aren't the whole market. Many companies publish roles on their own careers page, and not every posting makes it onto the big boards. Copies spread across aggregators can also linger after a role has closed.

Going to the source gives you the current version of a posting and a direct way to apply. Better still, most careers pages run on a handful of applicant tracking systems, which makes them easy to search.

Know the platforms behind careers pages

When you click Careers on a company's website, the listings are often hosted by an applicant tracking system. Each has a recognisable address:

• Greenhouse: job-boards.greenhouse.io and boards.greenhouse.io
• Lever: jobs.lever.co
• Ashby: jobs.ashbyhq.com
• Workable: apply.workable.com
• SmartRecruiters: jobs.smartrecruiters.com
• Workday: myworkdayjobs.com, usually with the company name as a subdomain
• Recruitee and Teamtailor: company subdomains on recruitee.com and teamtailor.com

Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby are common among startups and growing tech companies, while Workday is widespread at large enterprises.

Search them directly

Search engines index these job boards, so you can search them with the site: operator. Some starting points:

• site:jobs.lever.co "software engineer" remote
• site:job-boards.greenhouse.io "backend engineer" "new york"
• site:jobs.ashbyhq.com "machine learning engineer"
• site:myworkdayjobs.com "software developer" toronto

A few operators make these searches sharper:

• Quotes keep a phrase together, such as "site reliability engineer".
• OR covers spelling variations: "frontend engineer" OR "front-end engineer".
• A minus sign excludes a word, such as -intern or -manager.
• The date filter in your search engine's tools can limit results to the past week or month.

Results can include roles that have already closed, so always open the listing and check that the application form still works.

Build a target company list

Searching by title turns up roles you didn't know about. A target list keeps you close to the companies you already want to work for.

• Start with products you use and admire, and companies whose tech stack matches yours.
• Read engineering blogs and conference talks to find teams doing the kind of work you want.
• Bookmark each company's careers page and check it on a regular schedule, such as once a week.

Check a posting before you apply

• Look for a posted or updated date. Without one, the same role reposted in several places can be a sign it has been open a while.
• Make sure the apply button leads to a working form on the company's own site or its applicant tracking system.
• Read the location section closely. Remote roles often list the countries they can hire in.

Apply on the employer's site

Applying through the company's own system puts your resume where the recruiter works. Tailor it to the posting's core requirements, fill in every field rather than writing “see resume”, and keep a note of what you applied for and when. Our ATS resume tips for software engineers cover the tailoring step in more detail.

Doing this without a dozen open tabs

Checking careers pages by hand works, but it's slow to repeat every week. JobSorah pulls roles from these career sites (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Teamtailor, and Workday) and from major job boards into one catalog that refreshes daily, then scores each role against your resume.

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