Fleet traceability system for refrigerated transport

The company, a scale-up in LogisticsTechheadquartered in Spain, needed to solve this challenge: “fleet traceabilitysystem for refrigerated transport”. The main obstacle was finding profiles withreal experience in the business domain, not just generic knowledge of thestack, and their own selection processes dragged on for weeks without results.The context was one of accelerated growth, with investment already committedand high expectations from leadership and, where applicable, investors.

Squad Challenge built 3 challenges, oneper position, based on the project's real business case, analyzing an averageof 5 candidates per position (15 in total) and delivering the final shortlistin 1 day.

Squad Hiring managed, within 24h, theAOR-based hiring of the candidates validated through Squad Challenge, handlingcontract generation adapted to each developer's country of origin, datavalidation, and the onboarding process.

Over 19 months, an Enabling Team withspecialists in DevOps joined temporarily, focused on speeding up delivery andtransferring best practices to the client's team. The methodology the EnablingTeam applied was, as always, an adaptation of Agile to the client's type oforganization, structured into two tracks —Discovery and Delivery— given thelevel of agile principles already established in the organization. Since theproject also required a maintenance and support team, a specific methodologywas also developed for that team, independent from the development squad's.

The squad brought on 3 profiles(DevOps/SRE, Tech Lead, QA engineer) working on a stack of Go, React,Cassandra, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GitHub, AWS. The company already had its owntechnical team, into which the professionals proposed by Squadmakers integrateddirectly —they become part of the client's team, not Squadmakers'—, respectingexisting processes and priorities. The engagement ran for 19 months in total.