Amela
NurseLink Inc. — Platform Build Story
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Nurses' job search, built entirely in-house.

NurseLink is a mobile app that lets nurses search jobs by many filters like area, salary, and work style. Everything — from comparing salary and shift details to saving jobs of interest — is completed within the app.

Searchability, information comparison, retention, and operational efficiency ─ the launch story of a new platform: an app that satisfies all four axes a nurse's job search needs at once, built natively in-house for iOS / Android in six months from scratch.

Coverage area
47Prefecture
Search by area
Filtered search
Seconds
Multi-axis filtering
Native
iOS / Android
Complete on your phone
Bookmark
Save instantly
Return visits via viewing history
NurseLink
Search nursing jobs
🔍Tokyo · Ward · Day shift only
Annual income ¥4M+ Day shift only 120 days off/year
Chuo General Hospital — Ward
Shinjuku, Tokyo · Day shift only
Monthly salary ¥320k+
Midori Clinic — Outpatient
Yokohama City, Kanagawa
Annual income ¥4.2M+
Filter by criteria
01
CLIENT
About the client

NurseLink, one of Japan's leading names driving healthcare staffing.

NurseLink runs a job-matching business connecting nurses and medical institutions in a nursing field facing chronic labor shortages. With an app experience built from the job seeker's perspective, it supports career moves and hiring with fewer mismatches.

To renew the traditional paper- and PC-centered job search into a native app experience completed on a smartphone, we launched the job-search platform from scratch.

Listed jobs
10,000+
Partner facilities
3,200+
Total applications
6,200+
BUSINESS FLOW — From search to application management
STEP 1 · Nurse
Enter desired criteria
Specify area, salary, and work style
STEP 2 · Search
Search and compare jobs
Check salary and shift details
STEP 3 · Apply
Save and apply
Apply from bookmarks
STEP 4 · Operations
Receive and manage applications
Hospitals and operators respond via the console
02
CHALLENGE
The design challenge to solve

The four structural requirements demanded of the job app.

None of these are matters of technology choice — they are business requirements tied directly to job-seeker satisfaction, application rates, and hiring efficiency. Building anew from scratch required a design that makes them all hold true at once.

Enable filtering by many criteria
Get search wrong, and users can't reach the right jobs, and they drop off.
Make salary and shifts comparable
Get information design wrong, and condition comparison fails, stalling decisions.
Build a mechanism that encourages continued use
Without saves or history, return visits don't happen and application chances are lost.
Enable operators to grasp responses
Get the design wrong, and application and view activity stays invisible, so hiring improvements stall.
03
ARCHITECTURE
The architecture we built together

Turning a nurse's job search into a "no-hassle experience" across four domains.

We built all four domains — searchability, information comparison, retention, and operational efficiency — in-house from scratch with a Rails API and native apps. It is the launch of a new nursing-job platform centered on the job seeker's experience.

Amela
EXECUTION
6 months
Duration
30 person-months
Total effort
Domain ①
Searchability
Challenge
Need to find jobs matching desired criteria
Solution
Filter across multiple axes like area, salary, and work style
Instant filtering with condition chips
Domain ②
Information comparison
Challenge
Need to compare salary and shift details
Solution
Structured display of salary breakdown, hours, and days off
Compare at a glance in job details
Domain ③
Retention
Challenge
Need to revisit jobs of interest later
Solution
Bookmarks plus viewing history encourage return visits
From saved straight to details
Domain ④
Operational efficiency
Challenge
Operators need to grasp job responses
Solution
An operations console that visualizes application and view counts
Manage posting status
Mobile
Kotlin (Android)Swift (iOS)
Backend
Ruby on RailsMySQL🔐devise auth
Method
Clean Architecture / MVVMCoroutines / Koin
04
IMPACT
The value the platform creates

NurseLink's "frictionless job experience" is accelerating.

This platform continuously delivers business outcomes — job-seeker satisfaction, application rates, and hiring efficiency — not just technical metrics.

An experience of encountering the right job
Multi-axis search lets nurses find jobs without mismatches.
A design that lets you compare and choose by criteria
Structuring salary and shifts so candidates can apply with confidence.
A retention foundation that encourages return visits
Saves and history let candidates return to jobs under consideration.
Operations that let teams focus on hiring improvements
Visualizing responses so operators can focus on their next moves.
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STAKEHOLDER
Nurse
Hard to find jobs matching your criteria on other services
At NurseLink
Search instantly by many criteria
📈
Fewer mismatches, higher satisfaction
🏥
STAKEHOLDER
Hospitals & facilities
Job responses are hard to see
At NurseLink
Grasp applications and views with data
📈
Improved hiring efficiency
🧑‍💼
STAKEHOLDER
Hiring managers
Managing job drafts tends to get complicated
At NurseLink
Unified management of posting, drafts, and closing
📈
Reduced operational workload
STAKEHOLDER
Operations
Grasping usage tends to lag behind
At NurseLink
Track job and application activity on a dashboard
📈
Data-driven improvement
05
DEMO
Three scenarios

Experience NurseLink through a live, working demo.