What SmartBenefits needed
SmartBenefits helps small and medium-sized companies offer employee benefits, with insurance, outpatient cover, provident funds and HR tools on one platform.
Heading towards launch, its leadership needed engineers who could handle infrastructure and also think about the product, without the delay of a traditional hiring round.
Who joined
SmartBenefits interviewed, selected and onboarded 3 engineers from epicX in 9 days. They worked as part of the SmartBenefits team, with its CTO setting direction.
“We were at a stage where we needed top-tier engineers who could handle infrastructure, DevOps, and product-level thinking, without slowing us down. epicX delivered quickly and efficiently, helping us shape the product from scratch while staying lean.”
What the engineers did
- Led decisions on the platform’s architecture and data model.
- Built frontend logic across the core product.
- Designed the AWS setup and migrated the platform to it.
The result
The engineers’ work got the core modules of the platform ready to launch. In the words of the CTO, they helped shape what SmartBenefits launched.
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