.NET and Azure Softwarу Development Team Augmentation for a USA Fortune 1000 Company (New York, Telecom, SaaS)

Today this multi-service communications and fintech app is one of two key apps driving our client's growth strategy. However, this was not always the case.

Need to Scale Fast

When the client first came to us several years ago, it was just a new product launch with a potential growing user base and a forming market, but everything had to be built from scratch, most importantly quickly, before competitors could react.

Limited In-House Resources

Our client successfully launched their MVP. The telecommunications sector is highly competitive, and competitors often try to copy the product to take over the market following a successful MVP launch. Therefore, the major challenge for our client was to be the first to deliver a complete product, a fully functioning SaaS platform, to the market and secure their position.

Launching first is only the beginning. To keep users and build a strong reputation, the product needs to work perfectly, so the client needed professionals with experience in telecommunication software development.

However, because of their sudden success, the company faced a shortage of developers. Their in-house team wasn't large enough to build a full-scale product quickly.

Moreover, it is difficult to hire, on short notice, a high-quality, product-ready team if you rely only on internal HR resources.

Software Development Team Augmentation

To avoid a slow internal hiring process and product delivery delays, they chose to hire a top IT staff augmentation company to get senior .NET, Azure and Angular skills without interviewing a large number of applicants.

Hiring a Dedicated Team to Deliver a Highly-Quality Product to the Market First

Why a Dedicated Team Model?

The company management was searching for an effective and visible model of work – a dedicated team. The main reasons for that were:

• To keep developers only on their project so that developers could work more efficiently when understanding the business and domain specifics
• To benefit from the best pricing for the long-term project
• To get quick team growth depending on the current project scope

Why Belitsoft?

The enterprise had already had a positive experience with Belitsoft and our dedicated software development teams. We had previously developed custom .NET-based financial software (internal ERP/CRM for managing sales and financial activity with its dealers and resellers). So the business stakeholders knew Belitsoft as a trustworthy partner with technologically capable developers who could build a complex custom product from scratch, meeting tight deadlines and keeping high quality.

The Client wanted to outsource some Angular and NET developers, which will work in overlapping NY hours to provide the best possible results.

To fulfill the tough deadlines, our proposal was to use our reliable employees, who can be initial/core leaders for growing teams. So we first created a team core that comprised 7 .NET developers and UX/UI designers.

This approach was successful for both parties. The team-building process was quick, as all the required specialists were in Belitsoft’s resource pool. As a result, the team of highly skilled, senior-level specialists started performing right away, demonstrating exceptional and quick outcomes.

As a result, in 3-4 months, the Client received world-class software that could perform steadily and support millions of users.

Selecting Angular as a Matching Front-End for .NET

The following factors influenced the choice of Angular:

• The project required rapid development to capture market share and maintain leadership. Angular is well-known for its ability to facilitate quick development, especially for single-page applications (SPAs), and its component-based architecture allows for scalability.
• The SaaS application had a range of features, from administration panels for B2B clients to tariff plan management and marketing tools. Angular's modular structure and rich ecosystem can handle such complexities efficiently.
• With the number of users rapidly exceeding 7 million, performance and responsiveness were crucial. Angular is optimized for high performance and can handle large user bases when properly configured.
• The project's backend was developed using .NET technologies. Angular can seamlessly integrate with the .NET backend, making it a suitable choice for the front end.

Evolving and Upgrading the Software Fast by Scaling a Dedicated Team

Having received a well-performing product that was constantly attracting thousands of new users as well as evaluating the high skills level of our developers, the Client gave the go-ahead to scale up the dedicated team.

That’s when we scaled up the development team according to the current project needs. For that, we had to recruit new specialists, and at this stage, the Client can fully enjoy another enormous benefit of outsourcing software development to a dedicated team. Our team took on finding and sifting hundreds of candidates for the Client’s project.

The core developers selected the appropriate specialists according to their requirements (proven working experience, excellent communication skills, fluent level of English, etc).

Then, the shortlisted candidates were approved by the Client’s decision-makers. Then, our senior-level specialists onboarded the new team members and lead them to deliver great results.

In 6 months, the team grew up to almost 20 specialists that include .NET developers, Angular developers, QA specialists, UX/UI designers, and a solution architect.

In the next 5 years, a steady development team of 25 specialists was involved in the project on a full-time basis.