DevOps and Backend Development Services for Swedish E-Commerce SaaS
Leeroy Group is a software development company based in Stockholm, Sweden that provides solutions like online food ordering , mobile apps, business analytics, restaurant management systems, integrations with external vendors (like Uber Eats) and custom devices for collecting orders in restaurants (Points of Sale). Clients of Leeroy Group are mainly large restaurant chains based in the Nordics.
Leeroy provided an all in-one software and hardware solutions for restaurant chains to become fully digitalized and process food online and offline. They had an established customer base and more than 5 years of experience on the market, with approximately 50 employees based in Sweden.
At the end of 2021 Leeroy got in touch with Relout and requested a typical team-extension service, to backfilling stepping down DevOps engineers and to increase competence level in an already established platform team. We started with providing 2 talented Senior DevOps engineers who’s primary role was to support and accelerate an ongoing Kubernetes migration and reduce AWS billing and costs. Over time the scope of assignment has changed significantly due to adapting to business realities (increasing inflation levels due to War in Ukraine and its effects on restaurants) but also thanks to a very promising and fruitful cooperation between Leeroy and Relout. Over time the staff from Relout has been increased to 4 DevOps/SRE Engineers including promotion of one of members to team leader and a total of 4 Backend (Java) Engineers including team leaders and managers that were primarily focused on redesigning the monolithical core of the app and developing new microservices for the global platform (called Leeroy Cloud).
During H2 of 2022 Relout was supporting Leeroy in 2 big rounds of hiring and outstaffing for Backend Engineers roles which resulted in recruiting and verifying nearly 90 candidates out of which 20 were presented and 11 were approved by the Client
Over time Relout has been adjusting to the requirements and requests from Leeroy to backfill their staff and increase competence levels of the teams while ensuring flexibility and performance levels of entire cooperation. At the end of 2022 Relout became a strategic technology partner for Leeroy not only due to number of staff and also a wide range of services provided (like organizing meetups in Poland) and general trust and solid partnership between Relout and Leeroy’s executives.
From beginning we ensured that all the work we’re providing as Relout is properly tracked and documented, which, apparently, was not the common standard at Leeroy back in 2021. Our teams also delivered and implemented good practices including
After 12 months of cooperation and becoming a strategic technology partner for Leeroy we significantly modernized the platform, limited amount of legacy code and technical depts, cut the AWS and tooling costs by 45% and increased the level of competences of Leeroy engineers significantly by applying DevOps Mindset and SRE principles. Many business challenges were still to be faced and new technologies to be implemented. In 2023 the platform and core development was officially moved to new owner of Leeroy – Caspeco who aquired the Leeroy Group AB company in february 2023 and officially took over the product and platform development.
3 FTE Engineers that joined and transitioned between existing teams responsible for maintaining and developing core product functionality
2 dedicated teams - Evolution and Platform with 6 DevOps/SRE and Backend FTE Engineers involved
We ensured process and procedure improvements are made, applied Infrastructure Audit & Reviews, provided recruitment and HR support and organized off-site company meetup