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Your Job Board Can't Scale on WordPress. We Build You the Backend That Can.

If you're running a niche board that's hitting 2,000+ listings, you've already felt the search lag and the dropped Stripe webhooks. Your stack is the bottleneck.

Niche job boards for tech, remote, healthcare, and creative industries. Job listing management, applicant tracking, email alerts, company profiles, paid postings via Stripe. Niche boards thrive by serving specific audiences better than generic platforms.

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Indeed crushed the generic job boards -- that fight is over. But niche boards? They're genuinely thriving right now. A board for Salesforce developers or physical therapy jobs in the Southeast has almost no real competition and a very motivated, specific audience. That's a much better place to build.
Projects start at $10,000 for a solid single-niche board with search, alerts, and Stripe billing. More complex builds -- multi-industry, custom ATS workflows, advanced analytics -- typically run $15,000 to $25,000. Timeline is usually 8 to 14 weeks depending on scope.
Most migrations take 8 to 14 weeks from kickoff to go-live, depending on how many integrations you have. The first two weeks cover data audit and schema design. We run the new backend in parallel with your live site so employers and candidates see zero downtime during the switchover.
We typically use Node.js or Go for the API layer, PostgreSQL for structured listing data, and Elasticsearch for fast faceted search. The front end is usually Next.js. That said, the stack is chosen around your specific traffic patterns and team -- not a fixed template we apply to every project.
Dropped webhooks usually come from WordPress plugins blocking or timing out the endpoint. We replace that with a dedicated event queue -- typically using Redis or a managed service like SQS -- so every payment event is processed asynchronously and retried automatically. You get a full audit log of every transaction state change.
Remote collaboration works well for most clients. We keep a core overlap window of 9am to 1pm GMT for calls and async standups, which covers US East Coast mornings and most of Europe. All specs, decisions, and progress updates are documented in writing, so time zones do not create gaps in what your team knows.
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