Hire World-Class Engineers With a Modern ATS
Top developers won't wait around for a slow hiring process. Draft gives your engineering and talent teams the speed, structure, and candidate experience needed to win the best technical talent.
5 days
Average reduction in time-to-hire
78%
Candidate portal engagement rate
2x
More engineering hires per quarter
93%
Interviewer feedback completion rate
Key capabilities
Lightning-Fast Pipeline
Candidates drop off when processes stall. Draft's visual kanban board makes bottlenecks obvious so your team can act before great engineers accept another offer.
AI Candidate Matching
Search your talent pool by tech stack, years of experience, or specific skills. Draft's AI surfaces the most relevant profiles so you spend less time sourcing and more time interviewing.
Self-Service Application Portal
Give candidates a branded portal where they can check their application status in real time. It reduces inbound 'where am I?' emails and signals that you respect their time.
Interview Scheduling with Calendar Sync
Coordinate multi-round technical interviews across time zones with calendar integration. Candidates pick from available slots, and everyone's calendar updates automatically.
Slack-Native Notifications
Your engineering team already lives in Slack. Draft sends hiring updates, interview reminders, and candidate alerts directly to the channels that matter.
Analytics Dashboard
Track time-to-hire, source effectiveness, and pipeline conversion rates. Data-driven insights help you optimize your hiring funnel like you optimize your product.
Why Tech Hiring Is Different
The market for software engineers, product managers, and designers is fiercely competitive. Talented candidates often have multiple offers on the table, and they evaluate companies as much as companies evaluate them. A clunky application process or radio silence after an interview can cost you a hire.
Draft is built for the pace of tech recruiting. From automated CV parsing that creates rich candidate profiles the moment someone applies, to real-time Slack alerts that keep hiring managers engaged, every feature is designed to eliminate friction and move fast.
Structured Hiring Without Bureaucracy
Tech companies know the importance of process, but nobody wants hiring to feel like enterprise procurement. Draft strikes the balance: customizable stages, scorecards, and feedback loops give you structure, while a clean drag-and-drop interface keeps things lightweight.
Team collaboration features let interviewers leave feedback directly in Draft, with role-based permissions ensuring that sensitive compensation details stay private. Everyone sees what they need to, nothing more.
Employer Branding That Attracts Builders
Your career page is often the first impression a candidate has of your company. Draft's custom career page builder lets you showcase your tech stack, engineering culture, and open roles in a polished, mobile-responsive format that reflects the quality of your product.
Share jobs directly to LinkedIn, Twitter, and developer communities with one click. Track which sources bring in the strongest candidates and double down on what works.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can create custom pipeline stages for phone screens, coding challenges, system design rounds, and team fits. Each stage can have its own scorecard and interviewers.
Draft has a native Slack integration that sends real-time notifications for new applications, stage changes, interview reminders, and more to any channel you choose.
Yes. Draft provides a self-service application portal where candidates can view their current stage, upcoming interviews, and any updates without emailing your team.
Draft's AI analyzes parsed resumes and profiles to match on technical skills, experience level, location, and more. You can search in natural language or use filters to find exactly who you need.
Related resources
Analytics Dashboard
Deep dive into pipeline metrics, source tracking, and hiring velocity.
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