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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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Custom Job Board Development

Custom job board development is the process of building a purpose-specific hiring platform with its own database schema, search indexing, and employer billing logic — rather than adapting a generic CMS plugin. It covers listing ingestion, applicant tracking, tiered employer accounts, and automated categorization tuned to a specific industry vertical. The result is a platform you own and can extend, not a plugin dependency you manage around.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Search response times degrade past 1,500 listings on WP Job Manager because post-table queries were never designed for faceted filtering at that volume.
Risk: Candidates abandon search before finding relevant roles, reducing the repeat traffic that makes your board worth posting on — and your paid tier harder to justify to employers.
Stripe webhook failures on shared WordPress hosting go unlogged, so job postings go live before payment clears or expire without the employer being notified.
Risk: You manually reconcile billing disputes, employer trust erodes, and refund requests accumulate against revenue you already counted.
Niche boards have no clean way to enforce category taxonomy or auto-tag listings, so employer-submitted posts pollute search results with misclassified roles.
Risk: Candidate search quality drops, your board loses its niche authority, and employers see poor application rates that they attribute to your platform.

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Applicant Data Handling

Resumes and contact details submitted through your board are stored with access controls scoped by employer account, with retention policies and deletion endpoints you control — not a shared plugin database.

Payment Integrity

Stripe webhook processing is handled via an idempotent queue so duplicate events, retries, and network timeouts do not result in double-billing or unpublished listings that the employer paid for.

Listing Accuracy SLA

Automated expiry, repost prompts, and status auditing keep your index free of filled or abandoned roles — a measurable quality signal that protects your board's reputation with both candidates and employers.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Indexed Search with Faceted Filtering

Listings are indexed outside the primary database using a dedicated search layer, enabling sub-200ms filtered queries across role type, location, salary band, and custom taxonomy fields regardless of listing volume.

Tiered Employer Billing via Stripe

Employers self-serve through a dashboard that enforces posting limits, upgrade prompts, and renewal cycles tied directly to Stripe subscriptions — with webhook handling that survives server restarts and retries without manual intervention.

Applicant Tracking per Employer Account

Each employer sees only their own applicant pipeline with status tracking, internal notes, and email triggers at each stage — built as isolated account data, not a shared CRM bolt-on.

Auto-Categorization and Taxonomy Enforcement

Incoming listings are classified against your board's taxonomy on submission using rule sets you define, with a moderation queue for edge cases — keeping search quality consistent without manual review of every post.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSupabaseVercelStripeResend

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Board Audit and Data Architecture

1 week

We map your current listing volume, employer account structure, and payment flows to define the database schema, search index design, and employer permission model before any code is written.

02

Core Platform Build

3-4 weeks

We build listing management, employer dashboards, applicant intake, and Stripe billing against the agreed schema — with the search layer and webhook queue configured for your hosting environment.

03

Taxonomy, Alerts, and Moderation Tooling

1-2 weeks

Auto-categorization rules, candidate email alert subscriptions, and the admin moderation queue are configured and tested against a representative sample of your real listing data.

04

Migration, Load Testing, and Handover

1-2 weeks

Existing listings and employer accounts are migrated with data integrity checks, the platform is load tested at projected peak volume, and your team receives documented runbooks for ongoing operations.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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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