Insurance quoting platform for SMEs

The company, a growth-stage startup inInsurTech headquartered in Colombia, needed to solve this challenge: “insurancequoting platform for SMEs”. The client had already selected the professionalsit wanted to bring on, but had no legal or payroll structure in their homecountries to hire them directly while complying with local labor law. They alsocarried methodological management problems: immature agile rituals, difficultyplanning sprints realistically, and little discipline in tracking work. All ofthis was happening under time pressure, with a market deadline that left noroom for error.

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