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Lever to Postgres Heroku integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Lever and Postgres Heroku in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Lever and Postgres Heroku

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: Postgres Heroku and Lever share the same people, positions, and org structure in real time.

Lever is the system of record for the people side of the business — employees, candidates, roles, and the org structure around them. Postgres Heroku is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Requisitions, Offers, Users, Stages in Lever need to exist as queryable Materialized Views, Schemas, Primary and Unique Keys, JSONB Columns in Postgres Heroku before an app can act on them. When that bridge is a nightly export or a hand-run CSV, every downstream system spends the day working from a roster that has already moved on.

Stacksync syncs Materialized Views, Schemas, Primary and Unique Keys, JSONB Columns in Postgres Heroku with Requisitions, Offers, Users, Stages in Lever field by field, in real time. You decide which system owns which fields — Lever typically owns identity and org attributes, while operational or computed values can flow back the other way — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, matching records on a stable key and resolving conflicts by rules you set.

The result is one live picture of the workforce on both sides: HR keeps its source of truth, and the database keeps a current mirror that internal apps, reports, and access controls can trust without a batch window in between.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync Heroku Postgres into a warehouse for reporting without running ETL dynos
  • 02 Keep several Heroku app databases aligned with one system of record
  • 03 When an Opportunity is marked hired, write the candidate and its Offer into an HRIS or onboarding system to start employee provisioning.
  • 04 Consolidate Feedback, Interviews, and Notes into a warehouse for interviewer scorecard and time-to-fill reporting.

Common sync patterns

Org and structure stay aligned

Groups, departments, managers, and reporting lines from Lever stay consistent in Postgres Heroku, so hierarchy-driven logic and permissions don't drift.

Computed and operational fields flow back

Values assembled or corrected in Postgres Heroku write onto the matching record in Lever where those fields are writable, keeping the people system enriched.

Mirror people records into the database

Records maintained in Lever land as queryable Materialized Views, Schemas, Primary and Unique Keys, JSONB Columns in Postgres Heroku, so internal apps and dashboards read live data instead of a periodic export.

What you can sync between Lever and Postgres Heroku

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Lever objects Postgres Heroku objects How this pairing syncs
Stages Pipeline stage definitions that Opportunities move through; read to model funnel state and stage transitions in a database. Schemas Namespaces that scope which tables a sync reads and writes. Stages is specific to Lever and Schemas to Postgres Heroku — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Feedback Interview feedback and scorecard forms attached to Opportunities; created via POST /opportunities/:id/feedback and consolidated into a warehouse for interviewer analytics. Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts from connected systems. Feedback is specific to Lever and Primary and Unique Keys to Postgres Heroku — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Interviews Scheduled interview panel events with times and interviewers; read for scheduling reporting and time-to-hire metrics, and creatable via the panels endpoint. JSONB Columns Semi-structured payloads for nested SaaS objects and metadata. Interviews is specific to Lever and JSONB Columns to Postgres Heroku — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Notes and Contacts Free-text Notes on Opportunities plus the underlying Contact (person) that dedupes multiple Opportunities; notes are posted via POST /opportunities/:id/notes and contact-level tags, sources, and links can be added back for attribution. Sequences Generate surrogate keys for rows created by inbound syncs. Notes and Contacts is specific to Lever and Sequences to Postgres Heroku — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Opportunities The core pipeline record for a candidate applying to a role; replaced the deprecated Candidates endpoint. Created via POST /opportunities and updated (stage, archive, links, tags, sources, files) through the API, and synced two-way with a database or HRIS. Follower Databases Heroku-managed read replicas usable as low-impact sync sources. Opportunities is specific to Lever and Follower Databases to Postgres Heroku — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Postings Job posting records with categories, apply URLs, workplace type, and requisition codes. Can be created via POST /postings and read into a warehouse for open-role reporting. Tables Standard Postgres tables; the primary two-way sync target for app data. Postings is specific to Lever and Tables to Postgres Heroku — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Lever and Postgres Heroku

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Lever Postgres Heroku Sub-second propagation

DetectionLever notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks for candidate and application lifecycle events (applicationCreated, candidateStageChange, candidateArchiveStateChange, candidateHired,.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Postgres Heroku as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Postgres Heroku Lever Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Postgres Heroku for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Trigger-based capture or polling in most configurations.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Lever through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Lever: 10 requests/second per API key with a token-bucket burst to ~20/s; POSTs that create candidates/applications are throttled to roughly 2/second. Sustained overage returns 429 with Retry-After. List endpoints are cursor-paginated at up to 100 records per page.
  • Postgres Heroku: No API rate limits; connection counts and performance are bounded by the Heroku Postgres plan.
What ships with Lever ⇄ Postgres Heroku

Connect Lever and Postgres Heroku for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Lever–Postgres Heroku connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Lever or Postgres Heroku instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Lever or Postgres Heroku data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Lever or Postgres Heroku record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Lever ⇄ Postgres Heroku sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

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EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Lever and Postgres Heroku.

How the Lever and Postgres Heroku connectors work

Lever

Integration surface
REST Data API (api.lever.co/v1)
Authentication
API key over HTTP Basic auth (key as username, blank password) for internal integrations, or OAuth 2.0 with 1-hour access tokens for partner integrations (auth.lever.co)
Change detection
Webhooks for candidate and application lifecycle events (applicationCreated, candidateStageChange, candidateArchiveStateChange, candidateHired, interview created/updated/deleted), plus incremental polling via created_at and updated_at range filters on Opportunities
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
10 requests/second per API key with a token-bucket burst to ~20/s; POSTs that create candidates/applications are throttled to roughly 2/second. Sustained overage returns 429 with Retry-After. List endpoints are cursor-paginated at up to 100 records per page.
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Postgres Heroku

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (standard PostgreSQL)
Authentication
Database credentials from the Heroku DATABASE_URL config var; SSL required
Change detection
Trigger-based capture or polling in most configurations; log-based logical replication availability depends on plan and Heroku's managed server settings
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No API rate limits; connection counts and performance are bounded by the Heroku Postgres plan
How it works

How to connect Lever to Postgres Heroku — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Lever and Postgres Heroku with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Lever connected
    Postgres Heroku connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Lever and Postgres Heroku objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Lever ⇄ Postgres Heroku
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Lever Postgres Heroku
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

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