Insurance quoting platform for SMEs

The company, a growth-stage startup in InsurTech headquartered in Colombia, needed to solve this challenge: “insurance quoting platform for SMEs”. The client had already selected the professionals it wanted to bring on, but had no legal or payroll structure in their home countries to hire them directly while complying with local labor law. They also carried methodological management problems: immature agile rituals, difficulty planning sprints realistically, and little discipline in tracking work. All of this was happening under time pressure, with a market deadline that left no room for error.

The client came in with profiles it had already chosen on its own —outside the Squadmakers community—; our role was to evaluate them, without proposing them or deciding on the client's behalf, and to manage, within 24h, their AOR-based hiring: contracts adapted to each country of origin, data validation, onboarding, and any benefits the company wanted to offer them

.The squad brought on 5 profiles (full-stack developer, data engineer, QA engineer, Squad Lead, frontend developer) working on a stack of Java (Spring Boot), React + Next.js, Cassandra, MySQL, GitHub, Azure. The company had no consolidated in-house technical team, so the professionals it selected and decided to hire itself operated as the product's engineering core from day one. The engagement ran for 14 months in total.