The whole thing, with nothing hidden.
We connect to the hiring systems that about 1,700+ companies publish through, check them all day, read each new job to work out what it is, and email the people it matches. That's the product. This page is the detail.
What it looks like when one lands
A job turns up at the top of the board and an email goes out to everyone it matches. The timestamps are the part that matters.
An illustration of the Trakker job board: new postings arrive at the top stamped with how many minutes old they are, and an email alert is sent the moment one lands.
Three steps, and you only do the first one
Everything after the setup happens whether or not you ever sign in again.
- 1
Tell us what you want.
Your tracks, your level, where you'd work. Two minutes, once. Everything after this happens whether or not you open the app again.
- 2
We read the career pages.
Not a copy of somebody else's job board. We connect to the hiring systems that 1,700+ companies post through and check them all day. A job shows up here because it went live on the employer's own site, usually before it's linked anywhere else.
- 3
The email lands while it's fresh.
One email covers every new role from that company, so a place that opens forty requisitions on a Monday morning is one message and not forty. You open it, you click through, and you're near the top of the pile.
StripeWhat a pass over the list does
Four things, in order, on a loop. None of them involves reading somebody else's job board.
- Ask every company at once
- Each of the 20 supported hiring systems answers one cheap request per company, and the list gets fanned out across a thread pool instead of walked one at a time. The 21 hand-written connectors run in the same pass.
- Keep only what's new
- Jobs are keyed on the employer's own job id, so a role we see again on the next pass is recognised as the same role and not added twice. That key is what guarantees you never get two emails about one job.
- Work out what the job is
- Track, level, season and location come off the posting's own title and description. This is where a program manager role filed under operations gets sorted into TPM, and where a senior job that mentions mentoring interns stays out of an internship feed.
- Email whoever it matches
- One email per company per pass, covering every new job from that company, to every account whose preferences it clears. A company opening forty reqs at once is one message.
Where the time goes
Dropping the index step is most of the difference. Sending when we find something instead of on a schedule is the rest.
- A Trakker alertMinutes
- Our own evening digestSame day
- A job board's alert emailDaily at best
- A community GitHub listWhen it gets updated
- Checking career pages yourselfWhen you remember
Bar lengths are illustrative. Each row is how that channel is built to work, not a race we ran.
What decides whether an email reaches you
Two gates, and both have to open. That's what keeps the volume down, and it's worth knowing before you decide the free plan isn't enough.
- The company gate
- Either you follow the company, or it's one of the best-known employers in a track you picked. Following is unlimited on a paid plan and capped at three on the free one, and that cap is the main thing paying changes.
- The job gate
- The job has to match your tracks, your level and where you'd work. The same filter runs on instant alerts and on the daily digest, so the two channels never disagree about what counts as a match.
- The free plan still emails you
- A daily digest goes out at 7pm ET with everything from the last 24 hours that cleared the job gate, and no company cap on it. Paying gets you the same jobs sooner.
- Both switches are yours
- Instant and digest are separate settings, read fresh on every send. Turn either off and it takes effect on the next email, with no queue to wait out.
The seventeen tracks
A job only has to match one of them to reach you. Pick as many as apply.
Technical
Business and finance
What it doesn't do
Better to say these here than let you find out the hard way.
- It doesn't apply for you
- Auto-apply tools made submitting an application trivial and made interviews no easier to get. We get you to the job first and leave the rest to you.
- It isn't literally instant
- The sweep runs on a 30-minute cycle with the company list staggered across it, so most companies get checked far more often than that and most alerts go out minutes after the job appears. Overnight and at weekends the interval stretches, because that's when almost nothing gets published.
- It can't see a job that was never posted
- Roles filled by referral or through an internal pipeline never reach a career page, and nothing that reads career pages will find them. That's a real limit, not one we're about to close.
- Coverage is a list, not the whole internet
- About 1,700+companies today. An employer that isn't on it won't reach you until we add it, which is usually quick. See what's covered.