# Lever — ATS API: overview

> Canonical URL: https://developers.apideck.com/apis/ats/lever/overview

Lever is an applicant tracking + CRM that draws the entire team together to source, nurture, interview, and hire top talent.
- Status: live
- Authentication: oauth2

- **external guides:**   - **url:** https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation
  - **source:** Lever
  - **title:** Lever API Documentation
  - **title:** Lever OAuth Guide
  - **url:** https://hire.lever.co/developer/oauth
  - **source:** Lever
  - **source:** Lever
  - **title:** Lever Partner Integration Process
  - **url:** https://hire.lever.co/developer/partner
- **beta:** false
- **partnership note:** Only for your own OAuth app: joining gives you a client ID and secret plus an Integrator Sandbox, with production credentials after a Lever QA run-through.
- **difficulty reason:** Apideck OAuth App Available; No Partnership Required
- **difficulty:** straightforward
- **environment notes:**   - **environment:** Sandbox
  - **description:** Lever's sandbox API at https://api.sandbox.lever.co/v1, selected per connection.
  - **environment:** Production
  - **description:** Lever's production API at https://api.lever.co/v1, where live Lever organisations connect. Lever issues one OAuth app per environment, so sandbox credentials do not carry over to production.
- **authentication note:** Authorization Code flow; Lever issues no API keys to integrations.
- **partnership required:** false
- **apideck credentials available:** true
- **rate limits:** 10 requests per second steady state, with bursts up to 20 when possible.
- **sandbox note:** An Integrator Sandbox account, issued once Lever approves your partnership interest form. Email is switched off in it, so invited users get no invitation.
- **webhooks:** Virtual webhooks - applicant and job created and updated events, detected by polling.
- **important to know:** 
- **sandbox available:** true
- **consumer access level:** A Lever Super Admin, who authorises the connection for the whole organisation.
- **account type required:** Any Lever account.
- **supported resource categories:**   - **name:** Candidates
  - **resources:** applicants
  - **name:** Jobs
  - **resources:** jobs
- **apideck credentials note:** OAuth consent shows Apideck as the requesting application.
- **sandbox url:** https://www.lever.co/partnershipinterest
- **responsibility matrix:**   - **customer:** ✓ Via the Apideck Dashboard
  - **area:** Enable the Lever connector
  - **customer:** ✓ (optional, instead of Apideck credentials)
  - **area:** Register your own Lever OAuth app
  - **consumer:** ✓
  - **area:** Authorize the connection in Vault
  - **apideck:** ✓ Handles the OAuth flow
  - **area:** Store and refresh tokens
  - **apideck:** ✓
  - **area:** Deliver virtual webhook events
  - **apideck:** ✓ Polls Lever for changes
  - **apideck:** ✓ Validates and monitors connections
  - **customer:** ✓ Via the Apideck Dashboard
  - **consumer:** ✓ Can revoke access in Lever settings
  - **area:** Monitor connections
- **partnership url:** https://www.lever.co/partnershipinterest

## Supported resources

- **downstream id:** postings
- **id:** jobs
- **name:** Jobs
- **status:** live
- **downstream name:** Postings
- **custom field support:** false
- **downstream name:** Opportunities
- **name:** Applicants
- **id:** applicants
- **custom field support:** false
- **downstream id:** opportunities
- **status:** live

An omitted operation list does not establish operation support. Verify the selected operation in the coverage matrix.

[API reference](https://developers.apideck.com/apis/ats/reference.md) · [Coverage matrix](https://developers.apideck.com/apis/ats/coverage)