DarrenCaddle is a recruitment-focused CRM

DarrenCaddle is a recruitment-focused CRM and lead management platform designed to help recruitment teams organize large volumes of leads, companies, candidates, job opportunities, and sales activities in one centralized system.

I worked on the backend development and business logic, building the systems required to manage recruitment data, lead workflows, company assignments, sales tasks, and administrative operations.

Key Features

Lead Management — Create, track, search, filter, and manage large volumes of recruitment leads.

Advanced Lead Filtering — Filter leads by source, team, assigned user, country, status, sales task, outreach activity, and other attributes.

Company Management — Maintain company records, domains, assignments, statuses, and associated recruitment activity.

Candidate & Person Management — Organize candidate/person information and connect it with companies, jobs, and leads.

Sales Workflow Management — Track sales tasks, responses, resume submissions, interest, contracts, and other recruitment stages.

Job Management — Associate leads and candidates with relevant job opportunities.

Lead Assignment — Assign companies and leads to specific team members and manage ownership across the recruitment workflow.

Search & Reporting — Provide administrative tools for quickly finding and managing large datasets.

Scalable Data Management — Built the backend around high-volume recruitment data, with the interface showing 250K+ leads and 200K+ company records.

Admin Operations — Developed interfaces and backend functionality for managing the recruitment operation from a centralized platform.

My Role

Backend Engineer / Django Developer

I was responsible for the backend development, including:

Designing and developing backend APIs and business logic

Building lead and company management workflows

Implementing search, filtering, assignment, and status-management functionality

Designing data relationships between leads, companies, people, jobs, and sales activities

Building administrative workflows for managing large datasets

Supporting recruitment and sales operations through custom backend functionality

Technology

Python · Django · Django REST Framework · PostgreSQL · REST APIs · Database Design · Backend Development