Sports performance analytics platform

The company, a growth-stage startup inSportTech headquartered in Spain, needed to solve this challenge: “sportsperformance analytics platform”. The obstacle wasn't so much business domainknowledge —always valuable— as finding profiles with demonstrable experience inthe project's specific technology stack; in fact, they had already tried hiringfor it without success, with the added expense and lost opportunity thatentailed. The context was one of accelerated growth, with investment alreadycommitted and high expectations from leadership and, where applicable,investors.

Squad Challenge built 6 challenges, oneper position, based on the project's real business case, analyzing an averageof 5 candidates per position (30 in total) and delivering the final shortlistin 3 days.

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.

The squad brought on 6 profiles (SquadLead, backend developer, Tech Lead, DevOps/SRE, data engineer, ML engineer)working on a stack of Node.js (Fastify), React + Next.js, PostgreSQL,Cassandra, GitHub, GCP. The company had no consolidated in-house technicalteam, so the professionals proposed by Squadmakers, brought on under the AORmodel, operated as the product's engineering core from day one. The engagementran for 5 months in total.