Client Case

Adding scale to Hostelworld's global growth

Discover how KWAN delivered rapid engineering expansion, building a multicultural team of developers to support Hostelworld’s international operations.

TRUSTED BY LEADING COMPANIES

CUF
Enhesa KWAN
FedEx
Glint
Millenium
Infinera

Rapid engineering expansion in a new country

Hostelworld, a leading global platform in the travel sector, faced a critical expansion phase: the need to significantly increase development capacity while establishing technical operations in a new country. To maintain growth and application quality, building a strong team aligned with global standards was essential.

This case explores how KWAN took on the challenge of providing a full team of specialists who integrated quickly into Hostelworld’s processes and culture. Learn how this partnership enabled a drastic increase in development staff through a highly skilled team that met both technical and cultural requirements.

Hostelworld
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specialized professionals hired

A complete engineering team of 26 positions was successfully filled during a strategic expansion phase,
significantly reducing the internal recruitment effort required.

What You'll Find Inside

How to manage international expansion with speed

How to set up engineering operations in a new country, overcoming challenges like cultural adaptation and alignment of technical practices without jeopardizing roadmap objectives.

Strategies for hiring across multiple technology stacks

Learn how KWAN sourced experienced developers in PHP, Java, .NET Core, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Vue.js, Android, and SQL/NoSQL to support a diverse ecosystem.

A proactive partnership in team augmentation

See how a proactive recruitment approach allowed for a drastic increase in staff, providing a solution that reduced the internal recruitment load and ensured team stability.

Trusted by Industry Leaders

Why Companies Choose KWAN

As a KWANer alumni, choosing KWAN - the best Portuguese company I ever worked for - as our outsourcing partner was an obvious choice: KWAN and Team Resilience’s values and culture are very much aligned.

Ricardo Antunes
Team Resilience

KWAN’s proactive initiative was a massive benefit. We needed to drastically increase our development staff and KWAN was able to provide the solution by creating a highly skilled team of developers, who fit the cultural and technical requirements.

Philip Bannon
ex-Hostelworld

In an industry such as the tech one, where computers play a major role, it’s refreshing to account on a partner that is human, open, sensitive, and understandable, such as KWAN.

Jérôme Camurani
ENHESA
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