Financial services marketing + careers/CMS platform
Payday Express
PaydayExpress.ca—Next.js marketing site and Express/Mongo API for careers, ATS interview pipeline, and CMS (not a payroll engine).
The challenge
A Canadian financial-services brand needed trustworthy marketing pages plus staff tooling for hiring and content—without conflating the brand name “Payday” with payroll processing or claiming loan underwriting backends that do not exist.
The solution
Payday Express: PaydayExpress.ca—Next.js marketing site and Express/Mongo API for careers, ATS interview pipeline, and CMS (not a payroll engine). Credible public brand + hiring/content operations on one delivery. Tekvers delivered a maintainable financial services marketing + careers/cms platform system for Payday Express using Next.js 14, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose, with phased rollout, operator workflows, and documentation suited to long-term ownership.
Approach
Marketing vs operational split
Loan product pages and calculators are marketing UI; careers list/detail and CMS public pages consume APIs; staff dashboard is role-gated (e.g. manager on career-applications).
ATS depth where it matters
Interview candidates: stage, schedule, feedback, skills ratings, decisions, offers, communications—keyed by unique email across applications.
Serverless-aware API packaging
Swagger `/api-docs`, DB readiness middleware, CORS allowlists including Vercel previews; website proxies career applications through Next BFF.
Deliverables
- ▸Next.js 14 marketing site (loan product pages, about, partners, privacy, blog/news/team/testimonials)
- ▸Staff dashboard: applications, jobs, candidates/interviews, admin users, CMS modules
- ▸Express API: auth, applications (+ resume upload), jobs, interview candidates, admin users
- ▸CMS: testimonials moderation, feedback, team, blog/news publish flows, email subscriptions
- ▸JWT role model admin/manager/user; Swagger documentation
- ▸Explicit non-features: payroll, loan underwriting/disbursement ledger, contact-form SMTP from Next route
Outcomes
- ▸Credible public brand + hiring/content operations on one delivery
- ▸Role-gated careers and CMS without pretending to underwrite loans in-app
- ▸Architecture ready for Vercel-style hosting with documented cold-start/CORS concerns
Impact
Payday Express runs a trustworthy marketing presence and an operational ATS/CMS—while Tekvers keeps the case study clear of payroll and lending-engine claims the codebase does not support.
Tech stack
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