Lever
Lever is a talent acquisition and applicant tracking platform built on the Opportunities data model. The Lever API exposes candidates, opportunities, postings, interviews, feedback, requisitions, users, files, webhooks, and a public Postings API for embedding job sites.
23 APIs
9 Features
HRATSRecruitingTalent AcquisitionSaaS
Opportunities are Lever's primary candidate-centric resource. List, create, advance, archive, and update candidate opportunities through the hiring pipeline. Replaces the legacy...
Legacy Candidates endpoints maintained for backward compatibility. New integrations should use Opportunities; Candidates remain available for historical record retrieval.
Contacts represent unique people across multiple opportunities, allowing Lever to deduplicate candidates who apply to multiple roles.
Manage job postings programmatically and power custom public job sites. The Postings API has a public read-only mode that does not require authentication for displaying job list...
Submit candidate applications against postings, including resumes, cover letters, and EEO survey data, and retrieve historical application records.
List the configured pipeline stages and disposition stages used to route opportunities through screening, interviews, offer, and hire.
Read archive reasons used when an opportunity is archived (rejected, hired, withdrawn) for downstream EEO and analytics reporting.
Read interview events, panels, and schedules associated with an opportunity, including interviewer assignments and time slots.
Read feedback forms and scorecards completed by interviewers and hiring managers, with templated and free-form fields.
Manage feedback form templates, including question definitions and scoring rubrics applied across postings and stages.
Add and retrieve free-form notes attached to opportunities for recruiter and hiring manager collaboration.
Read offer records associated with opportunities, including offer letters, approval status, and compensation breakdowns.
Manage requisitions backing each posting — headcount, compensation bands, and approval state — typically synced from an HRIS.
List and apply tags to opportunities for cohorting, sourcing, and reporting workflows.
Read source attribution (job board, referral, sourced) for opportunities to drive sourcing analytics.
Upload and download files (resumes, cover letters, portfolio attachments) associated with opportunities; supports docx, doc, pdf, txt, jpg, png.
Read parsed resume data — work history, education, skills — extracted from candidate submissions.
Manage Lever users and their access roles (Super Admin, Admin, Team Member, Limited Team Member, Interviewer, Outsider).
Read tenant-scoped audit events for security monitoring and SOC reporting.
Read anonymous EEO survey data for compliance reporting; PII-isolated from the standard candidate endpoints.
Subscribe to Lever events (applicationCreated, candidateHired, stageChange, contactUpdate). Events are signed with HMAC-SHA256 for receiver verification.
The unauthenticated public Postings API for retrieving live job listings from a Lever account, used by external careers pages.
XML feed of open postings used by job aggregators (Indeed, Glassdoor, LinkedIn) for syndication.
REST API at https://api.lever.co/v1 (JSON over HTTPS)
Basic Auth (API key) and OAuth 2.0 for partner apps
10 requests/second per API key with burst to 20 req/s (token bucket)
Pagination via limit (1-100) and cursor-based offset tokens
include / expand parameters for projection and inline expansion
HMAC-SHA256 signed webhook events
Public Postings API for unauthenticated job-listing retrieval
XML feed for aggregator syndication
Custom-quoted SaaS pricing — no public price list
aid: lever
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lever/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Lever
x-type: company
description: >-
Lever is a talent acquisition and applicant tracking platform built on
the Opportunities data model. The Lever API exposes candidates,
opportunities, postings, interviews, feedback, requisitions, users, files,
webhooks, and a public Postings API for embedding job sites.
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- HR
- ATS
- Recruiting
- Talent Acquisition
- SaaS
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: lever:lever-opportunities-api
name: Lever Opportunities API
tags:
- Opportunities
- Candidates
- Pipeline
properties:
- url: openapi/lever-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#opportunities
type: Documentation
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation
type: API Reference
description: >-
Opportunities are Lever's primary candidate-centric resource. List,
create, advance, archive, and update candidate opportunities through
the hiring pipeline. Replaces the legacy Candidates resource.
- aid: lever:lever-candidates-api
name: Lever Candidates API
tags:
- Candidates
- Legacy
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#candidates
type: Documentation
description: >-
Legacy Candidates endpoints maintained for backward compatibility.
New integrations should use Opportunities; Candidates remain available
for historical record retrieval.
- aid: lever:lever-contacts-api
name: Lever Contacts API
tags:
- Contacts
- People
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#contacts
type: Documentation
description: >-
Contacts represent unique people across multiple opportunities, allowing
Lever to deduplicate candidates who apply to multiple roles.
- aid: lever:lever-postings-api
name: Lever Postings API
tags:
- Postings
- Jobs
- Public
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#postings
type: Documentation
- url: https://github.com/lever/postings-api
type: SDK
description: >-
Manage job postings programmatically and power custom public job
sites. The Postings API has a public read-only mode that does not
require authentication for displaying job listings.
- aid: lever:lever-applications-api
name: Lever Applications API
tags:
- Applications
- Submissions
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#applications
type: Documentation
description: >-
Submit candidate applications against postings, including resumes,
cover letters, and EEO survey data, and retrieve historical
application records.
- aid: lever:lever-stages-api
name: Lever Stages API
tags:
- Stages
- Pipeline
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#stages
type: Documentation
description: >-
List the configured pipeline stages and disposition stages used to
route opportunities through screening, interviews, offer, and hire.
- aid: lever:lever-archive-reasons-api
name: Lever Archive Reasons API
tags:
- Archive Reasons
- Disposition
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#archive-reasons
type: Documentation
description: >-
Read archive reasons used when an opportunity is archived (rejected,
hired, withdrawn) for downstream EEO and analytics reporting.
- aid: lever:lever-interviews-api
name: Lever Interviews API
tags:
- Interviews
- Panels
- Scheduling
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#interviews
type: Documentation
description: >-
Read interview events, panels, and schedules associated with an
opportunity, including interviewer assignments and time slots.
- aid: lever:lever-feedback-api
name: Lever Feedback API
tags:
- Feedback
- Scorecards
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#feedback
type: Documentation
description: >-
Read feedback forms and scorecards completed by interviewers and
hiring managers, with templated and free-form fields.
- aid: lever:lever-feedback-templates-api
name: Lever Feedback Templates API
tags:
- Feedback Templates
- Forms
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#feedback-templates
type: Documentation
description: >-
Manage feedback form templates, including question definitions and
scoring rubrics applied across postings and stages.
- aid: lever:lever-notes-api
name: Lever Notes API
tags:
- Notes
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#notes
type: Documentation
description: >-
Add and retrieve free-form notes attached to opportunities for
recruiter and hiring manager collaboration.
- aid: lever:lever-offers-api
name: Lever Offers API
tags:
- Offers
- Approvals
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#offers
type: Documentation
description: >-
Read offer records associated with opportunities, including offer
letters, approval status, and compensation breakdowns.
- aid: lever:lever-requisitions-api
name: Lever Requisitions API
tags:
- Requisitions
- Headcount
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#requisitions
type: Documentation
description: >-
Manage requisitions backing each posting — headcount, compensation
bands, and approval state — typically synced from an HRIS.
- aid: lever:lever-tags-api
name: Lever Tags API
tags:
- Tags
- Metadata
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#tags
type: Documentation
description: >-
List and apply tags to opportunities for cohorting, sourcing, and
reporting workflows.
- aid: lever:lever-sources-api
name: Lever Sources API
tags:
- Sources
- Attribution
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#sources
type: Documentation
description: >-
Read source attribution (job board, referral, sourced) for
opportunities to drive sourcing analytics.
- aid: lever:lever-files-api
name: Lever Files API
tags:
- Files
- Resumes
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#files
type: Documentation
description: >-
Upload and download files (resumes, cover letters, portfolio
attachments) associated with opportunities; supports docx, doc, pdf,
txt, jpg, png.
- aid: lever:lever-resumes-api
name: Lever Resumes API
tags:
- Resumes
- Parsing
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#resumes
type: Documentation
description: >-
Read parsed resume data — work history, education, skills — extracted
from candidate submissions.
- aid: lever:lever-users-api
name: Lever Users API
tags:
- Users
- Permissions
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#users
type: Documentation
description: >-
Manage Lever users and their access roles (Super Admin, Admin,
Team Member, Limited Team Member, Interviewer, Outsider).
- aid: lever:lever-audit-events-api
name: Lever Audit Events API
tags:
- Audit
- Security
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#audit-events
type: Documentation
description: >-
Read tenant-scoped audit events for security monitoring and SOC
reporting.
- aid: lever:lever-eeo-api
name: Lever EEO API
tags:
- EEO
- Compliance
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#eeo
type: Documentation
description: >-
Read anonymous EEO survey data for compliance reporting; PII-isolated
from the standard candidate endpoints.
- aid: lever:lever-webhooks-api
name: Lever Webhooks API
tags:
- Webhooks
- Events
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#webhooks
type: Documentation
description: >-
Subscribe to Lever events (applicationCreated, candidateHired,
stageChange, contactUpdate). Events are signed with HMAC-SHA256 for
receiver verification.
- aid: lever:lever-postings-public-api
name: Lever Postings Public API
tags:
- Postings
- Public
- Jobs
properties:
- url: https://github.com/lever/postings-api
type: Documentation
description: >-
The unauthenticated public Postings API for retrieving live job
listings from a Lever account, used by external careers pages.
- aid: lever:lever-xml-feed-api
name: Lever XML Feed
tags:
- XML
- Job Boards
- Aggregators
properties:
- url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#xml-feed
type: Documentation
description: >-
XML feed of open postings used by job aggregators (Indeed, Glassdoor,
LinkedIn) for syndication.
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.lever.co/
- type: Documentation
url: https://hire.lever.co/developer
- type: API Reference
url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation
- type: Pricing
url: https://www.lever.co/pricing/
- type: Login
url: https://hire.lever.co/login
- type: Status
url: https://status.lever.co/
- type: Blog
url: https://www.lever.co/blog
- type: Support
url: https://help.lever.co/
- type: GitHub Organization
url: https://github.com/lever
- type: Privacy Policy
url: https://www.lever.co/privacy/
- type: Terms of Service
url: https://www.lever.co/legal/
- type: Authentication
url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/oauth
- type: Webhooks
url: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation#webhooks
- type: Plans
url: plans/lever-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/lever-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/lever-finops.yml
- type: Features
data:
- REST API at https://api.lever.co/v1 (JSON over HTTPS)
- Basic Auth (API key) and OAuth 2.0 for partner apps
- 10 requests/second per API key with burst to 20 req/s (token bucket)
- Pagination via limit (1-100) and cursor-based offset tokens
- include / expand parameters for projection and inline expansion
- HMAC-SHA256 signed webhook events
- Public Postings API for unauthenticated job-listing retrieval
- XML feed for aggregator syndication
- Custom-quoted SaaS pricing — no public price list
sources:
- https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation
- https://www.lever.co/pricing/
updated: '2026-05-08'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: [email protected]