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Recruiting apps built for New York City's strictest hiring rules.

Codeeo delivers recruitment app development New York agencies and employers can defend line by line. New York City layers its own hiring law on top of state and federal rules: salary ranges in every advert, no questions about pay history, no credit checks for most roles, criminal history only after a conditional offer, and independent bias audits for automated screening tools. We build candidate apps, recruiter software and client portals where each of those rules is a working feature, so your team does not rely on memory to stay compliant.

Our team works with New York clients remotely, with every workshop and review held by video call. The goal is simple: hire faster in a crowded market without giving a candidate or a regulator a reason to complain.

Built for
Staffing and search firms, financial and professional services employers, healthcare systems and hospitality groups hiring in New York City and the state.
Typical timeline
Phases and review checkpoints are agreed in discovery and recorded in a written plan before any screen is designed.
What you own
Repositories, developer accounts, cloud infrastructure and all applicant records are registered to your business, not to us.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

Core features

Each NYC hiring rule becomes something the app does for you.

A requisition for a Midtown law firm, a night shift at a hospital in the Bronx and a seasonal role at a Brooklyn retailer all fall under the same city law, but they hit it at different points. Pay transparency bites at the posting. The salary history ban bites at the screening call. The Fair Chance Act bites at the offer. Local Law 144 bites whenever software scores or ranks candidates. We map those points onto your hiring flow first, then design the features around them. The list below is a starting set. Most New York clients take six or seven of these in the first release and add the rest once recruiters are comfortable, and the order depends on whether your biggest risk today is posting errors, slow offers or background decisions.

Explain your project
  • Postings that cannot omit the range

    Every New York City advert needs a good faith minimum and maximum salary, and the state rule extends that across New York for employers with four or more employees. Our job portal app development New York clients rely on blocks publishing until the range and job description are present, and keeps each published version.

    Pay transparency is enforced by the form, not by a reminder email.

  • Screening scripts without pay history

    Phone screen templates ask about salary expectations, never past pay, matching both the city and state salary history bans. If a candidate volunteers prior pay, the field for storing it simply does not exist, so it cannot drift into an offer decision.

    Recruiters cannot record what the law says not to ask.

  • Fair Chance Process workflow

    Criminal history checks start only after a conditional offer. If a record may lead to withdrawal, the app produces the Article 23-A analysis form, sends it with a copy of the report, and holds the decision for the response period the Fair Chance Act sets.

    Every withdrawn offer has the analysis and timeline on file.

  • Sealed record safeguards

    Since the Clean Slate Act took effect in November 2024, eligible state convictions are being sealed automatically. The app reminds reviewers that sealed convictions are off limits, and flags roles where a fingerprint-based check legally allows access.

    Reviewers know which records they may consider.

  • Bias audit ready scoring

    If you rank or score candidates with software, Local Law 144 requires a bias audit within the past year, a published summary and notice to candidates. We store the selection data an independent auditor needs and post the notice in the apply flow.

    Automated screening ships with its audit trail.

  • Transit aware candidate search

    Job search app development New York candidates appreciate means searching by subway line, borough or commute from home, including LIRR, Metro-North and New Jersey PATH links. Alerts and saved searches keep applicants coming back without recruiter chasing.

    Commute fit is visible before anyone applies.

  • Multilingual apply flow

    Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Bengali and Haitian Creole are common first languages among city applicants. We translate the apply flow and notices into the languages your roles attract, with English always available.

    More qualified applicants finish the form.

  • Client and hiring manager portal

    Search and staffing firms give each client a portal for requisitions, shortlists, interview feedback and offer approval, with strict separation between client accounts and an audit log of every candidate profile viewed.

    Client collaboration moves out of email threads.

  • Interview scheduling across boroughs

    Candidates book panel or one to one interviews against live calendars, choose video or in person at the right office, and get directions plus building entry instructions, which matter in Manhattan towers with lobby security desks. Hiring managers see a single agenda with each candidate's notes attached.

    Panels start on time with the right people in the room.

  • Secure document vault

    Résumés, IDs, licenses and offer letters are encrypted at rest, access is role based and every download is logged. Breach response steps follow the New York SHIELD Act, so your team knows what to do if something goes wrong. Retention periods are set per document type, and expired files are purged on schedule rather than left in old folders.

    Sensitive files stay in one controlled place.

Right for

Four kinds of New York hiring team we build for.

Hiring in New York is dense, fast and closely watched. The Commission on Human Rights takes complaints from candidates, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection enforces the automated tool law, and plaintiffs' firms watch both. The teams that benefit most from a custom app are those where volume, client relationships or regulated roles make a generic ATS feel brittle. Here is how we see the main profiles, and what each tends to need in its first release.

01

Search firms serving finance and law

Executive and professional search in Midtown, the Financial District and Hudson Yards depends on confidentiality and relationships. The app gives partners private shortlists, controlled sharing with clients, structured interview notes and an exact record of who introduced which candidate, so fee disputes have evidence behind them. Off limits lists stop recruiters approaching staff at current clients, and partners can see at a glance which searches are stalling and why.

Introductions are timestamped and attributable.

02

Healthcare systems and home care agencies

Hospitals and licensed home care agencies hire nurses, aides and therapists at scale across the five boroughs. We track licenses, health screenings and required training, and route background decisions through the Fair Chance Process with the exceptions that apply to certain regulated roles flagged by your counsel. Expiry alerts warn coordinators weeks ahead, so a caregiver is never scheduled into a client's home with a lapsed certification or missing health assessment.

03

Hospitality and retail groups

Restaurants, hotels and stores need quick mobile applications, group interview booking and onboarding that works on a phone between shifts. Multilingual flows matter here, as does posting ranges correctly for every location in the city. Managers at each venue can open requisitions from a template, while head office keeps control of pay bands, wording and the approved list of screening questions.

Speed matters, and so does getting every advert right.

04

Staffing agencies placing temps across the metro area

Agencies serving clients in Manhattan, Long Island City and northern New Jersey need one system that respects different rules on each side of the Hudson. Recruitment app developers New York agencies hire should treat location as a rule switch, and we do. The same temp may work a week in Jersey City and a week in Midtown, so the app applies the correct notices to each assignment rather than to the worker's profile alone.

Our six step route to a compliant New York hiring app.

  1. 01Rule mappingWe list every city, state and federal rule that touches your hiring, then mark where in the candidate's path each one applies.
  2. 02Workflow design with recruitersVideo sessions with recruiters and hiring managers to agree the screens, steps and permissions that make the rules easy to follow.
  3. 03Counsel review of noticesDraft notice text, forms and timelines go to your employment counsel for approval before they are built into the product.
  4. 04Iterative buildShort development cycles with demos, so recruiters test working features against real requisitions as early as possible.
  5. 05Audit and security testingWe test access controls, logging and data exports, and confirm an auditor could reconstruct any hiring decision from the records.
  6. 06Phased launchRelease to one team or client first, review the results together, then extend across offices, brands and roles.

Technology

What we build this with.

We build mobile apps in React Native or Flutter, client portals in Next.js and APIs in Node or Laravel, hosted in your AWS or Azure tenancy. Integrations commonly include Greenhouse, Lever, Workday or Bullhorn, plus screening and e-signature vendors.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

What New York clients ask before they start.

We start from the city's hiring rules, then design the product around them.

Most generic tools were built for looser markets and leave compliance to recruiters. We reverse that order. Discovery maps pay transparency, salary history, Fair Chance, credit check and automated tool rules onto each step of your hiring flow. Design then turns those points into required fields, hidden questions, timed holds and stored records. The result is software where the compliant path is also the easiest one for a busy recruiter. Managers can still override a step when counsel approves an exception, but the override and its reason are recorded.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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