Streaming platform for amateur sports events

The company, a growth-stagestartup in SportTech headquartered in Spain, needed to solve this challenge:“streaming platform for amateur sports events”. The obstacle wasn't so muchbusiness domain knowledge —always valuable— as finding profiles with demonstrableexperience in the project's specific technology stack; in fact, they hadalready tried hiring for it without success, with the added expense and lostopportunity that entailed. The budget was tight, leaving no room to absorbadditional overruns or delays.

Squad Challenge built 2 challenges, oneper position, based on the project's real business case, analyzing an averageof 5 candidates per position (10 in total) and delivering the final shortlistin 5 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.

An Enabling Team with specialists inDevOps joined temporarily for 16 months to speed up delivery and transfer bestpractices. As in all Enabling Team projects, the working methodology was anadaptation of Agile to the client's type of organization.

The squad brought on 2 profiles (Tech Lead, dataengineer) working on a stack of Node.js (NestJS), React + Next.js, MongoDB,PostgreSQL, Bitbucket, Azure. The company had no consolidated in-housetechnical team, so the professionals proposed by Squadmakers, brought on underthe AOR model, operated as the product's engineering core from day one. Theengagement ran for 16 months in total.