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Shortlist candidates for a backend engineer job

Rank resumes for a senior backend engineer role in one call: each candidate gets a rank, a score and a short rationale to build your shortlist.

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AI Candidate Ranker - Shortlist Resumes for a Job
AI Candidate Ranker - Shortlist Resumes for a Jobhirelayer/candidate-ranker
Rank
Candidate
Name
Score
+5 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Job description(required):Senior Backend Engineer (Go / Python) - London or remote UK About the role You will design and run the services behind our delivery platform, handling millions of orders a week. Requirements - 5+ years of professional backend development - Strong Go or Python in production - Experience with PostgreSQL, Kafka and AWS - Designing and operating distributed systems at scale - Fluent English Nice to have - Kubernetes and Terraform - Mentoring other engineers
Resume URLs:https://hirelayer.co/benchmark/resume-parser-2026-10/cv2-two-page-en.pdf+2
Candidates as text

Output fields

Rank
Candidate
Name
Score
Verdict
Why this rank
Resume
Status
Error

How it works

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The AI Candidate Ranker - Shortlist Resumes for a Job Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like job description, resume urls, and more, to match your specific use case.

Receive the "Shortlist candidates for a backend engineer job" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as rank, candidate, name, and more.

Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Shortlist candidates for a backend engineer job" task via API.

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