Checkout platform for a multichannel retailer

The company, a growth-stagestartup in E-commerce headquartered in United States, needed to solve thischallenge: “checkout platform for a multichannel retailer”. The client hadalready selected the professionals it wanted to bring on, but had no legal orpayroll structure in their home countries to hire them directly while complyingwith local labor law. The team also lived with methodological problems: noclear agile cadence, unreliable estimates, and difficulty consistentlyprioritizing the backlog. The competitive window was short: a competitor with asimilar product was already gaining market share.

The client came in with profiles it hadalready chosen on its own —outside the Squadmakers community—; our role was toevaluate them, without proposing them or deciding on the client's behalf, andto manage, within 24h, their AOR-based hiring: contracts adapted to eachcountry of origin, data validation, onboarding, and any benefits the companywanted to offer them.

The squad brought on 2 profiles (backend developer,full-stack developer) working on a stack of Node.js (Express.js), React +Next.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Bitbucket, Azure. The company had no consolidatedin-house technical team, so the professionals it selected and decided to hireitself operated as the product's engineering core from day one. The engagementran for 12 months in total.