Services · Mobile app development · Recruitment apps
Codeeo offers recruitment app development Edinburgh agencies and employers can shape around Scotland's own vetting system. We build candidate apps, client portals and placement tools that post your jobs to Scottish and UK boards, guide applicants from search to interview, and route each hire to the correct background check: Disclosure Scotland and the PVG scheme for roles in Scotland, DBS where a candidate will work in England or Wales.
Edinburgh recruiters often fill specialist roles from a small pool of people who know each other. A well made app keeps those candidates close to your agency between moves, and keeps your clients informed without a chain of follow-up emails. Because the city's market is small and connected, a smooth experience for candidates quickly becomes part of your reputation.
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What we can build
The capital's recruitment market leans towards skilled, often senior roles. Asset managers, insurers and banks around the Exchange district and Edinburgh Park hire for investment, risk and technology. Universities and the life sciences cluster at the BioQuarter need researchers and technical staff. Scottish Government and public bodies recruit steadily, and the software and data sector keeps growing. Candidates commute in from Fife, West Lothian, Midlothian and the Borders by rail, bus and tram. Each of these shapes the features below, which we order around the problems your consultants describe in discovery rather than a fixed package. Some agencies need all of them; many launch with four or five and add the rest once candidates and clients are using the app.
The app asks where the role will be performed and selects the correct check. Scottish regulated roles require PVG scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland, while Level 1 and Level 2 disclosures cover other Scottish positions. A role based in Newcastle or London goes to DBS instead, through your registered body.
No candidate is sent for the wrong check.
Vacancies flow to s1jobs for Scottish reach, to the UK-wide boards your desks rely on and to your own careers pages with structured job data for Google. Each advert carries the right location, salary wording and closing date, and withdrawals sync everywhere when a role fills.
Local and national reach from one vacancy record.
Applicants search by commute from Kirkcaldy, Livingston, Dalkeith or Musselburgh, not only by distance from Edinburgh city centre. Saved searches drive alerts, and profiles carry over between applications so experienced candidates are not retyping their history every time a new role appears.
Candidates see roles that fit how they actually travel.
Edinburgh's universities produce graduates who may hold Graduate or Skilled Worker permission. The app records each eVisa share code check, notes the end date of permission and reminds consultants to run a follow-up check before it lapses. British and Irish passport holders go through a certified identity service provider.
Time-limited permission tracked without spreadsheets.
Fund accountants, actuaries, clinical researchers and data engineers rarely apply cold. Consultants group passive candidates into pools by skill and seniority, send relevant openings with the candidate's consent and track who has engaged, so a specialist desk can work a small market properly.
Warm candidates ready when a mandate arrives.
Hiring managers see anonymised or full profiles as your terms allow, compare candidates side by side, rate them against the brief and request interviews. Public sector clients that need records of how each shortlist was assembled can download that record from the portal. Comments stay attached to each candidate rather than sitting in someone's inbox.
Faster decisions and a clear record of each one.
The Conduct Regulations apply in Scotland as in England, so terms with hirers and candidates must be agreed before you act for them. The app sends your documents for electronic signature, stores the signed version with a timestamp and flags any client still working without signed terms.
Signed terms on file before work begins.
Edinburgh employers often mix a video first stage with a final round at the office. The app handles both: video links, office directions with tram or bus stops, panel availability and reminders, plus a feedback form that the hiring manager completes before the next stage opens. During the August festivals, when city centre travel is slower, candidates can switch a final round to video with one tap if the client agrees.
Each stage closes with feedback recorded.
A confirmed start creates the placement, calculates the fee data from your agreed terms and passes invoice details to your accounting package. Guarantee periods are tracked, and if a placement ends early the record shows which replacement or rebate step applies.
Finance and consultants work from the same placement record.
Under UK GDPR, which the ICO enforces in Scotland as elsewhere, candidates should know why you keep their details and for how long. The app records the basis for holding each profile, separates job alerts from marketing so PECR consent is respected, and archives dormant records on the schedule you set. Disclosure information is visible only to named compliance staff.
Candidate data kept for a reason, and no longer than needed.
Who this is for
Edinburgh's recruitment firms tend to be specialist, and many have grown on reputation within a single sector. Others are employers with large hiring needs of their own, or founders building a job board for Scotland. The situations below show where each usually starts, and why the first release looks different for each of them. If your business sits between two of them, discovery is where we decide which side comes first.
You place investment, risk, compliance and operations staff with fund managers and insurers. Confidentiality matters: candidates may be employed by your client's competitor. We build discreet profiles, client portals with strict permissions and reference workflows that record exactly what was asked and answered. Alerts for new mandates go only to candidates who have opted in to that kind of role. Partners can see pipeline value by client and by mandate from one dashboard.
Discretion is built into permissions, not left to habit.
Roles with councils, health boards, colleges and schools carry heavy vetting and record keeping. Many of these positions are regulated work under the PVG scheme, so the app checks membership before a candidate is put forward and stores the disclosure record securely. Shortlist audit trails help when a framework client asks how decisions were made.
PVG status is confirmed before submission, not after.
Job portal app development Edinburgh founders commission usually needs two products in one: a candidate app with good search and alerts, and an employer account where businesses post roles, manage applicants and pay for listings. We build both, with moderation tools so the board stays clean and reporting that shows employers what their adverts achieved.
Advertiser tools carry equal weight with the candidate app.
Scale-ups in Edinburgh hire engineers, scientists and commercial staff faster than their HR team can track. A branded careers app with referral tracking, structured interviews and right to work checks before day one keeps hiring orderly. It connects to the HR system you already use, so new starters move straight into onboarding. Hiring managers get a simple mobile view so feedback does not wait until they are back at a desk.
Built to plug into the HR tools you already pay for.
Working with Codeeo
Our team of 80+ is based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US. We do not have an office in Scotland. Edinburgh clients work with us remotely, with every workshop, review and demo held by video call. You can commission a fixed scope first release, continue on a monthly retainer for improvements, or take a dedicated team that works only on your platform for a longer programme. Ownership of the code and accounts stays with you in every model.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Technology choices follow your current systems: the CRM or applicant tracking tool your consultants know, the boards you post to and the accounting software finance uses. We favour well supported frameworks that another developer could pick up later.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Mainly the background check system, which is run separately in Scotland.
Most of a recruitment platform is the same across Great Britain: job posting, candidate profiles, client portals and placement records. The difference is vetting. Scottish roles use Disclosure Scotland, with PVG membership for regulated work, while English and Welsh roles use DBS. Your terms of business and contracts should also be reviewed by a solicitor who knows Scots law. We build the app so these differences are handled by rules, not by consultants remembering them. Timing is agreed in discovery once the first release is fixed, and depends mostly on integrations and data migration.
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