Business Overview

• Client is a start-up aiming to change the way people find work & manage their careers, and how companies engage with and manage their talent
• Build platform which allow external developers, company to share the API and build their own app on top of the platform

Challenges

• Cloud-based application accessible via desktop, tablet & mobile
• Large scale products, xx of concurrent users
• High availability: 99.99% uptime. New features should be deployed without affect to the whole system
• Multi-tenants, white labeling and multi-lingual support
• Complex commission model for reseller, service providers, suppliers and client

3 Scrum teams (24 people) – PO in the UK 12 sprints to MVP GO-LIVE

Technical stacks

• Microservices architecture with API Gateway and Service Discovery to help scale independently and more flexible to adapt changes of business requirements
• ReactJS for responsive web app development. Amazon CloudFront is employed to maximize the availability and responsibility of the system across regions
• High Availability NodeJS/Express for backend development
• Documentation using apiary.io to expose platform to external developers
• Primary data is stored using MongoDB and transaction data is in MySQL
• Redis is used for API request data to enable connection throttling
• Python, NLTK, Elasticsearch and Google TensorFlow to develop profile matching service which is continuous improvement with support from ML
• Seamless development and deployment with Jenkins, Amazon ECS, S3
• Source management using Bitbucket
• Log management and system monitoring with Datadog andLogstash/Kibana