Lever ATS API
REST API for Lever's applicant tracking system enabling programmatic access to candidates, opportunities, postings, and recruiting workflow automation.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
SOC 2 Type II certified. OAuth 2.0 with scopes provides reasonable access control. GDPR compliance supported with data residency options. No IP allowlisting for API keys.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
Your organization runs Lever and you want to automate recruiting workflows, sync data to other systems, or build agent-driven talent operations on top of your existing ATS.
Avoid When
You need an ATS that offers self-serve API access without an enterprise contract, or your team uses Greenhouse, Workday, or another ATS.
Use Cases
- • Syncing candidate pipeline data into internal dashboards or data warehouses
- • Automating candidate sourcing and opportunity creation from external tools
- • Triggering interview scheduling and feedback workflows from agent pipelines
- • Building recruiting analytics by extracting stage, feedback, and offer data
Not For
- • Companies not using Lever as their ATS
- • Building a standalone ATS (this is an integration API, not a platform API)
- • Real-time high-frequency data pipelines (not designed for high-throughput reads)
Interface
Authentication
Supports OAuth 2.0 for user-delegated access and API key authentication for server-to-server integrations. OAuth scopes control access to candidates, postings, and sensitive interview feedback.
Pricing
No public pricing. API access is not separately purchasable — requires an active Lever ATS subscription.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ No idempotency keys — agents must deduplicate candidate/opportunity creation externally to avoid creating duplicate records.
- ⚠ Candidate data is often partially populated; agents should handle missing fields gracefully across all candidate objects.
- ⚠ Webhook signature verification is supported but optional — agents should enforce signature checks to prevent spoofed events.
- ⚠ Rate limit of 10 req/s is low for agents doing bulk operations; use the bulk export endpoints for data sync tasks.
- ⚠ OAuth token refresh must be handled proactively; expired tokens return 401s without clear expiry hints in response headers.
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.