Twitter job search for developers: X listings vs post search
The built-in job search covers roles companies list. Post search covers the ones founders only tweet about.
By ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom, Editorial team
2 min read
Twitter job search comes in two forms: X's built-in job listings, where companies post structured roles, and ordinary post search, where you hunt for "we're hiring" posts from founders and engineers. Developers get the most out of using both, with a feed shaped by the right people; the free TechTwitter IO who-to-follow page is the simplest way to set that feed up.
Option one: X's built-in job search
X launched a hiring feature in 2023 for verified organizations. According to HR Dive's November 2023 report, X then opened job search to all users. As described there, you can search by keyword or location, filter for remote-only roles, and see a pay range when the employer provides one.
What it is good at: listings that look like a job board's, with a title, a location and a link out. What it misses: any role a company never added there, such as one a founder only mentioned in a post. The feature may have changed since that report, so check what your own app shows today.
Option two: searching posts
A lot of startup hiring on X happens in normal posts. A CTO posts that the team needs a second infra engineer, people reply, and the role is filled before it reaches a board. Post search is how you find those.
A developer-friendly starting query:
("we're hiring" OR "hiring a") (engineer OR developer) since:2026-10-01 -filter:replies
Sort by Latest, swap in your language or framework, and add filter:links when you only want posts with an application link. The form at x.com/search-advanced builds the same queries if you prefer fields to syntax.
Side by side
| Built-in job search | Post search | |
|---|---|---|
| What you find | Roles companies chose to list on X | Any public post that mentions hiring |
| Format | Structured listing with a link out | Free text, often with replies |
| Best for | Companies that run hiring through X | Startups, open source teams, early roles |
| Noise | Low | High until you tune the query |
| Contact | Through the employer's link | You can reply to the person who posted |
What makes post search work: your feed
Search finds posts, but your feed brings you the ones you would never think to search for. TechTwitter IO groups real accounts by what they do. For developers, the Engineers group is the obvious start: Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, Kent C. Dodds, who teaches testing and full-stack web development, and Gergely Orosz, who writes The Pragmatic Engineer.
The page's tips are short and practical. Reply more than you post at first. Post what you are building, with screenshots. Mute words and unfollow freely, since nobody is notified.
Which one to use
Use both, in that order of effort: a quick check of the built-in search each week, then most of your time on post search and on a feed that brings roles to you. If your target is a large company, its careers page and a regular job board will beat either.
While you wait for replies
TechTwitter IO also prints a free satirical daily paper about tech Twitter, with puzzles like Connections and Who Tweeted It. It is parody, so read the real news elsewhere, but it is a decent tab to keep open between applications.