endorsedOngoing

Engineer Augmentation for Digital Home Lending Platform

Services Covered:

Custom Software Development

Industry

Financial Services

Duration

103 months

Budget

Confidential

Start Date

1 January 2018

Team Size

Confidential

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

75/100

Good

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Client

Roostify

San Francisco, United States of America

Project Summary

Talentica Software augmented Roostify's engineering organization to help deliver products and features for a digital home lending platform using Ruby on Rails and later Java. They provided offshore developers, QA and DevOps staff and a project manager to support multiple product verticals. Their Agile approach, accountability, and communication via Slack and JIRA helped deliver features and address defects in a timely, repeatable manner.

Key Challenges

Need to augment the engineering team to deliver on roadmap products and features
Coordination across time zones ("follow the sun") causing delays when clarifications are needed
Maintaining overall engagement health and status visibility for engineering leadership

Project Deliverables

Augmented engineering teams across product verticals
New product features and roadmap deliverables
Bug fixes and an efficient defect-resolution process
Offshore DevOps support for engineering teams

Project Solution

Talentica provided engineering augmentation by spinning up Ruby on Rails engineers quickly and later adding Java expertise. They staffed multiple offshore teams aligned to product verticals on the Roostify platform, supplying offshore developers, QA engineers, and DevOps engineers, with a project manager/lead overseeing the engagement and direct interfaces to two QA leads.

Project Outcome

Features, products, and bug fixes were delivered in a timely fashion
An efficient, repeatable process was established for addressing defects
Agile project management with Slack and JIRA ensured timely communication
Talentica demonstrated strong accountability and integrated closely with the client team

Platforms

Web
SaaS

Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails
Java

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

4.38

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“Talentica Software’s approach has been met with unanimously positive acclaim. They remain accountable for their work, addressing bugs during their process with a fairly efficient and repeatable process.”
Anonymous
Dir. of Production Operations
Date: 08/12/2022