Automated claims management system

The company, a growth-stage startup in InsurTech headquartered in Finland, needed to solve this challenge: “automated claims management system”. The market for senior talent with demonstrable experience in that technology stack is scarce, and they had already tried to fill the position without success, with the resulting added expense and lost opportunity. The competitive window was short: a competitor with a similar product was already gaining market share.

Squad Challenge designed 5 challenges, one per position, based on the business case itself, with an average of 5 candidates analyzed per position (25 evaluated in total), delivering the final shortlist in 7 days.

Building on that foundation already validated by Squad Challenge, Squad Hiring formalized the AOR-based hiring within 24h: contracts adapted to each developer's country of origin, data validation, and onboarding.

In total, the squad was made up of 5 profiles (full-stack developer, Tech Lead, backend developer, Squad Lead, frontend developer), working on a stack of Node.js (NestJS), React + Next.js, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, GitLab, OVH. The company had no consolidated in-house technical team, so the professionals proposed by Squadmakers, brought on under the AOR model, operated as the product's engineering core from day one. The engagement ran for 14 months in total.