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How to get a list of companies hiring engineers

For technical recruiters, dev-tool sellers and agencies targeting companies scaling their engineering org.

Engineering hiring is a strong tell for two very different buyers. If you sell developer tools, infrastructure, or observability, a company opening ten backend roles is a company whose stack is about to grow and whose budget is about to be spent. If you place engineers, those same postings are your live req list. Either way you want companies, not a wall of duplicate postings.

For engineering specifically, the most durable source is a company's own public ATS board (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby). It is structured, login-free, ToS-safe, and it tells you the true open-role count and the dominant function — so you can rank companies by how hard they are actually scaling engineering right now.

Steps

Decide your seed list of companies (or browse the live companies and industries pages on this site for candidates already known to run public boards).
Feed their ATS handles or board URLs to the Actor. It reads each company's official public API — no browser, no login.
Filter to companies where the dominant signal is technical_product_investment and the open-role count is high — those are scaling engineering hardest.
Cross-reference the roles list to see whether it is backend, data, ML or platform hiring, and tailor your pitch or your candidate pool to that.
Export and refresh on a schedule. Pair with contact enrichment if you need the emails and phones for the same companies.

Do it with one Actor

ATS Hiring Signal Finder — $0.01 per company. Engineering orgs almost always run a public Greenhouse/Lever/Ashby board — reading it directly is cleaner and cheaper than scraping job aggregators.

You give company ATS handles or public board URLs (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby); you get one scored hiring-signal record per company — open-role count, the roles, a deterministic signal, locations, a score, and evidence URLs. Run it on Apify (export JSON/CSV/Excel, or call it via the Apify API/MCP for automation).

Honest limits

Public data only. Contacts come from pages companies publish themselves and from public job-board data — no gated profiles, no private-data access.
Hiring is a signal, not proven purchase intent. The commercial reason is a prioritisation hypothesis to open a conversation, not a guarantee of a deal.
Some public pages embed third-party widget emails (support vendors, form tools); these can slip into results. Review a sample before you send.
Respect each platform's terms and applicable law — e.g. the Australian Spam Act and CAN-SPAM require sender identification and a working unsubscribe path in commercial email. These are B2B research tools, not a licence to spam.

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