Build an Applicant Tracking System for Tech Companies
Run structured engineering interviews, score take-homes, and manage the loop in one place. Build a tech hiring tracker with Kleap. Free to start.
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A working app, not a template
What it is
An ATS for tech companies is a web app that runs structured, multi-stage interview loops — storing each candidate record, their stage across recruiter screen, technical, and onsite rounds, and every interviewer's scorecard.
What your tech companies applicant tracking tracks
Every field below is one you can add, rename, or remove by chatting with Kleap — a starting point tuned for tech companies.
Candidate name
The record that follows an engineer through a deliberately long, multi-round evaluation.
Role & level
SWE II, Senior, or Staff — leveling drives the comp band and the shape of the interview loop, so it's captured up front.
Source
Inbound, referral, or sourced, so recruiting can see which channels yield candidates who actually pass the bar.
Pipeline stage
Recruiter screen → Technical screen → Take-home → Onsite loop → Debrief → Offer, the standard structured funnel.
Interview scorecards
Per-round structured ratings and written feedback stored on the record, so decisions rest on evidence, not vibes.
Tech stack / skills
Languages and systems the candidate knows, used to match them to the right team and interviewers.
Compensation expectation
Base and equity expectations mapped against the level's band to catch mismatches before an onsite.
Interviewer assignments
Who runs each round, so a loop is staffed and no round is left uncovered.
Debrief outcome
Hire / No hire with reasoning, capturing the committee decision that closes the loop.
What good looks like for tech companies
One app, a view for everyone
Engineering hiring manager
Skill and level match, loop quality, the signal in each scorecard, and closing strong candidates before they take a competing offer.
Technical interviewer
A clear rubric, knowing which round they're assigned, and fast feedback turnaround so they're not the bottleneck.
Technical recruiter / coordinator
Pipeline health, scheduling the loop, stage-to-stage conversion, and candidate experience.
Buy a tool, or own one built for you
Off-the-shelf software makes you fit its mold. With Kleap you describe the applicant tracking you actually want and own it outright.
A typical applicant tracking
- Monthly per-seat fees that grow with your team
- Your data lives on their servers, in their format
- Fixed features — you adapt to the tool, not the reverse
- Generic, not shaped around tech companies
Built with Kleap
- Free to start — no per-seat pricing
- You own the app and its database, data stays yours
- Change anything by chatting — fields, views, workflow
- Shaped around how tech companies actually works
Build it in 3 steps
Describe it
Tell Kleap what your tech companies needs, in plain words.
AI builds it
Get a real working app with records, forms, and a dashboard.
Publish
Refine it in chat, then publish. It is a live app you own.
Frequently asked questions
Can it enforce a structured interview loop?+
Yes. The pipeline is a fixed sequence of stages — recruiter screen, technical, take-home, onsite, debrief — and each stage collects a scorecard. That keeps every candidate evaluated the same way instead of ad hoc rounds.
Where do interviewers leave scorecards?+
Each interviewer records structured ratings and written feedback directly on the candidate record for their round. At debrief, the committee reads all of it in one place to make a hire / no-hire call.
Does it run coding tests or take-homes for us?+
No — it tracks the take-home as a pipeline stage and stores the result and reviewer feedback, but the exercise itself lives in whatever tool or repo you already use. The ATS is the system of record for the outcome, not the assessment engine.
Can we match candidates to teams by tech stack?+
Yes. Skills and stack are fields on the record, so you can filter for, say, backend Go candidates and route them to the right team and interviewers rather than a generic pool.
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Ready to build it?
Describe your tech companies applicant tracking and watch it come to life. Free to start, no code.