Frontend & Backend Development for HR Solutions Company

The Project

Expedo is a complex human capital management ecosystem that allows to streamline and manage a complete workforce lifecycle within any company. Starting from the Australian region they are eager to scale on the international market. Its global goal is to incorporate a set of digital solutions for recruitment, onboarding, HR, payroll, learning, collaboration, and offboarding employees into one system and fine-tune the synergy in between.

The Calling

The whole hiring process starts with sourcing and recruiting top talents. It is quite complicated and requires dealing with lots of pitfalls like:

• Manually screening large volumes of job applications;
• Silence treatment towards candidates that affect employer branding;
• Disconnected sources for background checks and pre-employment tests;
• Difficulty to evaluate the applicant's ability to fit the team culture;
• Focus on permanent contacts ignoring the need for a contingent workforce.

To resolve these and many other challenges in the HR area, the client decided to create a whole digital ecosystem with a number of interconnected products.

Basically, we’ve started our cooperation with a recruitment tool development and continued working on internal solutions delivery and further systems tuning.

The Challenge

One of the primary solutions was to allow leading the job applicant all the way to employment in the most logical and convenient way. This is how the idea for developing a recruitment tool was created.

While the backend part was developed by another development team, the client has reached out to us for frontend development and IT infrastructure implementation. The solution should not only provide an intuitive user experience, smooth interactions, and optimized performance but integrate flawlessly with both internal system solutions and external job listing platforms.

Among many tasks, the major one was to create recruitment pipelines that aimed to streamline the hiring process for the platform's end users. Besides primary ones, it was necessary to develop custom pipelines that end-users will create for intermediate results of candidate selection.

The complexity lay in the fact that it is impossible to predict how many primary or custom pipelines the end user will create.

The Challenge

The first stage of our cooperation with the HR solutions company has led to continued collaboration on internal project development like PDF converter.

Its primary goal was to make a unified solution using .NET technology that can be used throughout the whole line of Expedo products and withstand heavy loads.

To implement fault tolerance we were required to decide on the best possible solution architecture that allows the product to be highly performant, secure, and easily deployed.

The client represents an enterprise, therefore, it has influenced the choice of tech stack. Strongly typed languages like C# guarantee high performance and a minimum number of errors thanks to code compilation.

Continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) can increase code quality and speed up development and deployment processes. We’ve decided to use Azure DevOps tools for CI/CD implementation. To preserve Azure resources' integrity and increase maintainability we needed to use Bicep IaC language.

Our development team has developed the “brain” of the PDF converter using backend development services.