New eCommerce Solution
Backend Development
Data Migration

Elvie

Elvie introduced a new BigCommerce website migrating from a legacy stack, integrating BigCommerce APIs with Launch Lab assisting with backend and content migrations

Time frame to build team:

2 weeks

Involvement timeframe:

7 months

Max team size:

3

Challenge

Elvie had made a decision to migrate to a new eCommerce framework and made a decision to bring in additional skills in order to upgrade its backend services to ensure successful integration with BigCommerce APIs.

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Elvie engaged Launch Lab to augment their team with additional PHP w Laravel capabilities and to support the migration of their content to the new framework

Launch Lab's solution

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Skills requirements reviewed

Launch Lab’s expert team analysed Elvie’s project requirements and crafted bespoke assessment criteria.

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Assessments of talent network

Launch Lab’s VP of Engineering ran the assessments against Launch Lab’s global network to find talent with relevant experience.

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Candidates presented

Conducted technical screenings and assessed more than 120 candidates and presented three candidates to Elvie.

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Fast onboarding

All candidates were onboarded within two weeks of the brief.

Positions hired

2 Backend Engineers
1 Content Manager

Technologies used

PHP/Laravel
MySQL
VueJS
API Development

Solution

Project summary

2 top 2% of candidates presented to client
126 hours of talent assessment completed
24 % saving on UK median freelancer equivalent
3 hours required by Elvie to scale their migration team

Client feedback

"Launch Lab was able to source really great talent, quickly. They are easy to engage with and were able to understand our requirements, which was key to providing the resources we needed to deliver our projects. It's been a great partnership so far."

Kieran Rieley

Head of Delivery