Summary: A Series-B FinTech company building a next-generation digital payments platform needed to triple its engineering team ahead of a critical product launch. Internal recruitment was taking 45+ days per hire, and existing team members were stretched thin across multiple sprints, risking both deadlines and code quality.
Expedite Software Services partnered with the client to deliver an agile staff augmentation strategy that rapidly sourced, vetted, and deployed senior-level engineers — enabling the client to meet their launch window without compromising engineering standards.
Fill expertise gaps in Java, React, Node.js, Python, and cloud-native development across multiple product squads.
Scale engineering capacity without long-term headcount increases or permanent hiring commitments.
Cut onboarding time from 45+ days to under 2 weeks while maintaining talent quality and technical standards.
Adjust team size based on sprint demands and project phases with flexible month-to-month contracts.
Uphold PCI-DSS compliance standards and engineering best practices without compromising delivery velocity.
Relieve existing 20-person team working 60+ hour weeks by distributing workload across augmented engineers.
Java (Spring Boot), Python (Django/FastAPI), Node.js
React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, Redux
AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS), Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
Apache Kafka, Spark, PostgreSQL, Redis
Selenium, Cypress, JMeter, Postman
GitHub Actions, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory
Internal recruitment averaged 45 days per engineer — far too slow for a 30-day launch window requiring 45 hires.
High attrition risk within the existing 20-person team working 60+ hour weeks with increasing burnout.
Critical gaps in cloud-native architecture and Kafka event streaming that no internal candidates could fill.
Pressure to ship fast was increasing production incidents — 3x more hotfixes in the quarter before engagement.
Sourced from Expedite’s bench of 5,000+ engineers with live coding assessments and system design interviews.
Custom onboarding playbooks with codebase walkthroughs and pair programming sessions with client tech leads.
Cross-functional pods (backend + frontend + QA) aligned to product squads for accountability and velocity.
Mandatory code reviews, 80%+ automated test coverage, and weekly quality dashboards.
Weekly velocity reports, individual contribution metrics, and quarterly talent reviews.
Month-to-month contracts with 2-week ramp-down notice, scaling from 45 to 25 engineers post-launch.
Deployed across 6 product squads within 30 days — all sprint-ready by end of Week 1.
Average time-to-fill reduced from 45 days to 18 days with pre-vetted talent pipeline.
Annual recruitment and onboarding costs reduced compared to traditional hiring channels.
Zero critical defects at launch, processing 50K+ transactions on Day 1.
Code-review pass rate maintained, with production incidents reduced by 40% quarter-over-quarter.
92% of augmented engineers continuing past the initial engagement as embedded team members.