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Staff Augmentation & Microservices Development for FinTech

Services Covered:

Staff AugmentationSoftware Product Development
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Industry
Industry

Financial Services

Duration
Duration

37 months

Budget
Budget

Confidential

Start Date
Start Date

1 January 2020

Team Size
Team Size

1-5

Engagement Model
Engagement Model

Nearshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

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76/100
Good

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Client

Upvest

mapBerlin, Germany

Project Summary

Vention (formerly iTechArt Group) provided staff augmentation to a fintech client (Upvest), embedding engineers into product engineering to develop user onboarding, account management, tenant configuration, fee collection, and authentication/authorization features. The vendor helped build and support 19 microservices and enabled onboarding of more than 500,000 users in the client's test environment. The client praises the vendor for full integration into teams, challenging ideas, and showing a product mindset while focusing on dependability and performance.

Key Challenges

  • Rapidly ramp up engineering capacity while integrating external engineers into internal teams
  • Deliver dependable, high-performance APIs and platform components
  • Ensure external engineers contribute across the full product lifecycle (design, development, release, maintenance)

Project Deliverables

  • User onboarding process
  • User account creation
  • Tenant configuration management
  • Fee collection
  • Authentication and Authorisation
  • Performance optimizations and observability/traceability for API flows
  • Platform components and microservices

Project Solution

The vendor embedded engineers into the client's product engineering teams and contributed across the product lifecycle, including product design, development, release, and maintenance. They implemented user onboarding, account creation, tenant configuration, fee collection, authentication and authorization, and contributed platform components. The work included performance optimizations and the implementation of observability and traceability for API flows, using technologies such as Go, Datadog, Kubernetes (LinkerD, Terraform), Kafka, and PostgreSQL.

Project Outcome

  • Built and are supporting 19 microservices
  • Onboarded more than 500,000 users in the test environment
  • Vendor engineers fully integrated into teams and demonstrated a product mindset, improving product decisions and execution

Platforms

  • WebWeb
  • CloudCloud

Tech Stack

  • GoGo
  • Apache KafkaApache Kafka
  • PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
  • DatadogDatadog

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

4.63star5 out of 5 stars

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

Vention (formerly iTechArt Group) has helped the client build and support 19 microservices. They've also enabled the client to onboard more than 500,000 users in their test environment. Moreover, the client praises how the vendor fully integrates themselves into the team, challenges ideas, and shows a product mindset.

Geoffrey Teale

Head of Developer Experience

Note: This endorsement is based on publicly available client feedback from external review sources.

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