Identity management platform for businesses

The company, a growth-stage startup inCybersecurity headquartered in Colombia, needed to solve this challenge:“identity management platform for businesses”. The main obstacle was findingprofiles with real experience in the business domain, not just genericknowledge of the stack, and their own selection processes dragged on for weekswithout results. The competitive window was short: a competitor with a similarproduct was already gaining market share.

Squad Challenge designed 5 challenges,one per position, to evaluate professionals already linked to the client, drawnfrom its own internal team and outsourcing firms it already worked with,analyzing an average of 5 candidates per position (25 evaluated in total) in 5days.

In total, the squad brought together 5profiles (full-stack developer, frontend developer, Tech Lead, DevOps/SRE,Squad Lead), sourced from the client and its outsourcing firms, working on astack of Go, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Bitbucket, GCP. The company had noconsolidated in-house technical team, so this squad, already linked to itthrough outsourcing, operated as the product's engineering core from day one.Since some of these profiles came from outsourcing firms, their turnover washigh (around 50%), which led to evaluating 2 additional replacements over thecourse of the project, reaching a total commitment of 20 months.