Frontend
TypeScript
Catches errors before they ship
React
Builds the interface with components
Next.js
Handles routing and rendering
CSS
Styles every page on the site
About Flint
Flint is a job search platform based in the Netherlands, built by five trainees and one project manager as our final project. As we're all navigating the job market in this shifting landscape, we wanted to create a platform that would help us.
The name Flint comes from the hard stone that was historically struck to create fires. In a similar vein, our platform creates a spark for your new role.
What Flint can do
Everything Flint can do, in one place. Search for roles, save the good ones, and jump straight to the employer when you're ready.
Save jobs for later
Life can get busy sometimes. Keep the jobs that catch your interest for when you have the time for them.
Build your profile
Coming soon: tell us your skills and where you'd like to work, and Flint will put the best matches first.
Accessible by design
Flint is for everyone. Labelled controls and keyboard navigation make it work just as well with a screen reader as with a mouse.
Fresh jobs every day
Our database is refreshed every day, so new postings show up as soon as they land.
More ways to search
Search by role, skill, company or location. Your next job is out there somewhere; let's find it.
Free and open-source
Flint is built for the open web, using open-source frameworks and libraries. Check us out on GitHub.
Meet the team
Five trainees across frontend, backend, and data, guided throughout by Jana, our volunteer project manager and the reason any of it shipped on time. We all come from different backgrounds and careers, and Flint is what happened when we put all our ideas together. Say hello on LinkedIn — we're all job hunting too.
Tech stack
Three tracks, one app: the site you're reading, the API behind it all, and the pipeline that keeps the jobs coming.
Backend
PostgreSQL
Stores the jobs, users, and saved lists
Java
The language the API is written in
Spring Boot
Runs and handles the API
Maven
Builds the project and its dependencies
Data
Python
Powers the data pipeline
Airflow
Schedules the pipeline runs
dbt
Transforms the raw data
Databricks
Where the transformations run
Thank you!
Flint was made in four weeks as our final project for the HackYourFuture programme. A big thank you to the HackYourFuture team for their support, the tech leads who helped shape this project, and every instructor and volunteer mentor who guided us along the way.
Shout out to the rest of Cohort 55!
Read the code