Treatment adherence tracking app

The company, a growth-stage startup in HealthTech headquartered in United States, needed to solve this challenge: “treatment adherence tracking app”. More than business knowledge, what was missing was verifiable experience in the project's specific technical stack: a previous hiring attempt hadn't worked out, generating extra cost and delaying the market opportunity. The team also lived with methodological problems: no clear agile cadence, unreliable estimates, and difficulty consistently prioritizing the backlog. The budget was tight, leaving no room to absorb additional overruns or delays.

Squad Challenge built 6 challenges, one per position, based on the project's real business case, analyzing an average of 5 candidates per position (30 in total) and delivering the final shortlist in 2 days.

Building on that foundation already validated by Squad Challenge, Squad Hiring formalized the AOR-based hiring within 24h: contracts adapted to each developer's country of origin, data validation, and onboarding.

In total, the squad was made up of 6 profiles (backend developer, DevOps/SRE, Squad Lead, frontend developer, full-stack developer, QA engineer), working on a stack of Python (FastAPI), React, PostgreSQL (HL7/FHIR), MongoDB, GitLab, GCP. The company had no consolidated in-house technical team, so the professionals proposed by Squadmakers, brought on under the AOR model, operated as the product's engineering core from day one. The engagement ran for 23 months in total.