Cusorcart Careers — Applicant Tracking & Hiring Platform

As CTO at Cusorcart, hiring was a real operational need, not a side project — so I built out a proper applicant tracking system rather than relying on generic job board tools or manual spreadsheet tracking.

What I built:

1. Public job listings — a candidate-facing careers page where open roles are published and browsable.
2. Application flow — candidates apply directly through the site, with their submissions flowing into a structured pipeline rather than scattered emails.
3. Admin review pipeline — an internal dashboard for moving candidates through hiring stages (e.g. applied, screening, interview, offer, rejected), giving the hiring team one place to track every applicant instead of juggling threads.
4. Automated stage-change notifications — applicants get notified automatically when their status changes, closing a common gap in small-company hiring where candidates are left in the dark for weeks.

Why it mattered:

Built on Laravel and React with Inertia, so it shares architecture and patterns with the rest of the Cusorcart platform rather than existing as a bolted-on separate app — consistent with how I approach tooling at Cusorcart generally (the AI SEO engine, the Help Centre chatbot, and this ATS all sit on the same core stack). It's also a direct example of building internal tooling to solve a real operational bottleneck rather than buying an off-the-shelf HR SaaS the team didn't need.

Stack: Laravel, React, Inertia.js.