An ATS your team won't hate
Backrow is the applicant tracking system designed for software companies. Post jobs, track candidates, and hire great talent — without the bloat, the complexity, or the per-seat fees.
Your ATS shouldn't be the hardest part of hiring
Most hiring tools are built for the Fortune 500. We built Backrow for modern teams and software companies who value speed and simplicity.
Built for HR, not for hiring
Enterprise software designed for HR, not for teams who just want to hire.
Vendor lock-in
Annual contracts and migration nightmares when you outgrow them.
Feature overload
Thousands of features you'll never touch, hiding the handful you actually use.
Backrow is the opposite. Built for engineers and hiring managers. Flat pricing for your whole team. Just the workflows you actually use.
Built for speed, not meetings about the ATS
Create your first job posting in minutes, not after a six-week rollout.
- Automate the busywork
Send rejection emails, notify hiring managers, move candidates between stages—all without lifting a finger.
- Your process, your pipeline
Phone screen, take-home, team interview, offer. Or skip the take-home. Or add a founder chat. Drag stages around until it matches how you actually hire.
- A careers page in minutes
Your logo, your colors. Launch a beautiful careers page in an afternoon, not a sprint.
- Keep everyone in the loop
Notes, @mentions, and notifications that don't require a training manual. Get your whole team involved.
Your AI recruiting assistant. Not your replacement.
Backrow uses AI to handle the work you don't have time for — parsing resumes, evaluating applications, suggesting screening questions — so you can focus on actually talking to candidates. Every AI feature is opt-in. Turn them on when you're ready, leave them off if you're not.
- AI suggests the right questions to ask
Stop guessing what to put on your application form. Describe the role, and Backrow generates tailored screening questions.
- Generates short text, long text, yes/no, number, date, single choice, and multiple choice questions
- Each suggestion explains why it matters for your specific role
- Understands seniority, location, salary, and your ideal candidate description
- Won't suggest generic filler — if your job description is too vague, it tells you what to add
- A structured read on every applicant
When a candidate applies, Backrow reads their resume and screening answers alongside your job description and produces a structured evaluation — so you open your inbox to candidates already prioritised by fit.
- Overall fit assessment with a clear rationale grounded in specifics, not vague generalities
- Dimension breakdown: technical relevance, experience level, and communication quality
- Per-answer screening analysis with quality ratings and flags for generic or off-topic responses
- Estimated seniority level calibrated to the role, not just years on a resume
- Structured profiles, no more PDF roulette
Backrow extracts skills, work history, education, contact info, and languages from every resume — so you get a clean, searchable candidate profile instead of scrolling through a two-page PDF.
- Extracts name, email, phone, location, current role, skills, work history, education, and languages
- Extraction only — never infers or guesses data that isn't explicitly in the resume
- Powers search and filtering across all your candidates
- Original resume always available with one click
Simple by design, not by accident.
Enterprise ATS platforms need dedicated admins. Backrow needs about ten minutes.
One view for every applicant. Filter by stage, source, or custom fields. Drag and drop to move candidates forward.
Backrow will disqualify the candidate.
Backrow will send an email to the candidate.
Thank you for applying for the Software Engineer position at Typewriter. After careful consideration, we regret to inform you that we will not be moving forward...
Best regards,
— Typewriter team
Backrow will notify all subscribers of the application.
Automations that trigger on candidate actions. Handle emails, notifications, stage moves and more.
Led a team of 5 to ship the billing platform. Migrated legacy Rails monolith to Laravel.
Strong Laravel experience. Great culture fit from the screening call — send to tech interview.
Hi Sarah, we’ve received your application and will review it soon. We’ll be in touch within 3 business days.
Resumes, answers, notes, emails. All on one candidate profile.
Plays well with others.
Connect your calendar, sync with your HRIS, post to job boards, and automate workflows with the tools your team already uses.
Made for modern software companies.
Most ATS tools were built for HR departments hiring hundreds of roles. Backrow was built for software companies hiring the right people—engineers, designers, PMs, and everyone in between.
Stop wrestling with your ATS.
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Plans from $49/month.
Clear pricing. Software that scales as you grow.
- 14-day free trial
- Scales as you grow
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