Fractional investment platform for retail investors

The company, a growth-stage startup in FinTech headquartered in Argentina, needed to solve this challenge: “fractional investment platform for retail investors”. 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. There was no systematic way to measure each squad developer's performance or the technical health of the project day to day, and risks were only detected once they had already impacted delivery. The context was one of accelerated growth, with investment already committed and high expectations from leadership and, where applicable, investors.

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Squad Challenge designed 2 challenges, one per position, based on the business case itself, with an average of 5 candidates analyzed per position (10 evaluated in total), and delivered the final shortlist in 10 days.Squad Hiring managed, within 24h, the AOR-based hiring of the candidates validated through Squad Challenge, handling contract generation adapted to each developer's country of origin, data validation, and the onboarding process.Squad Master AI was installed within 24h and, as a recurring monthly service, gave daily visibility into code quality, progress, and technical risks.

The squad brought on 2 profiles (Tech Lead, mobile developer) working on a stack of TypeScript, Express.js, Node.js, React, Kafka, and PostgreSQL. The company had no consolidated in-house technical team, so the squad operated as the product's engineering core from day one. The engagement ran for 15 months in total