B2B marketplace for industrial supplies

The company, an established company in E-commerce headquartered in Argentina, needed to solve this challenge: “B2B marketplace for industrial supplies”. More than business knowledge, what was missing was verifiable experience in the project's specific technical stack: a previous hiring attempt hadn't worked out, generating extra cost and delaying the market opportunity. The context was one of accelerated growth, with investment already committed and high expectations from leadership and, where applicable, investors.

Squad Challenge designed 3 challenges, one per position, to evaluate professionals already linked to the client, drawn from its own internal team and outsourcing firms it already worked with, analyzing an average of 5 candidates per position (15 evaluated in total) in 1 day.

An Enabling Team with specialists in architecture joined temporarily for 8 months to speed up delivery and transfer best practices. As in all Enabling Team projects, the working methodology was an adaptation of Agile to the client's type of organization, structured into two tracks —Discovery and Delivery— given the level of agile principles already established in the organization. Since the project also required a maintenance and support team, a specific methodology was also developed for that team, independent from the development squad's.

The squad was made up of 3 profiles (backend developer, Tech Lead, ML engineer) working on a stack of Python (Django), Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Bitbucket, GCP, sourced from the client and its outsourcing firms. This squad integrated with the company's existing in-house technical team, respecting established processes and priorities. Since some of these profiles came from outsourcing firms, their turnover was high (around 50%), which led to evaluating 2 additional replacements over the course of the project, reaching a total commitment of 8 months.