Engineering Staff Augmentation — SME Lending Platform, Bangalore, India
The Situation
A Bangalore-based fintech building a real-time payments platform for SME lending had been hit by something the founding team had not planned for. Three senior engineers, two backend and one security specialist, had left within 6 weeks of each other. All three went to larger competitors offering compensation the startup could not match at its current stage.
The platform was 3 months from an RBI compliance audit that could not be rescheduled. The audit covered the payments infrastructure directly. Without the security engineer and one of the backend leads, the team could not finish the compliance instrumentation in time.
Local hiring was not an option at the speed required. The founding CTO had posted the roles. The pipeline was thin and the interviews were going slowly. At the rate things were moving, the first replacement hire would start 2 weeks after the audit date.
What Amorisoft Did
Amorisoft received the brief on a Wednesday evening. A longlist of 24 candidates was sent by Friday morning covering backend engineers with experience in payment systems, a security engineer with RBI compliance exposure, and 2 data pipeline specialists the CTO had flagged as additive rather than replacement roles.
The CTO ran technical interviews across the following week. Amorisoft handled all scheduling and ran parallel reference checks on the shortlisted candidates. 8 engineers were confirmed and onboarded by day 12 from brief.
The security engineer placed was specifically selected for prior experience with RBI's Payment Aggregator guidelines. That was a non-negotiable requirement and one Amorisoft had flagged in the initial brief response as the hardest position to fill quickly. They sourced 3 credible candidates for it. The CTO hired the first one interviewed.
All 8 engineers were given system access and full codebase orientation within 48 hours of confirmation. Amorisoft's delivery manager ran a structured onboarding session on day 1 covering the platform architecture, the compliance timeline, and the specific modules each engineer would own. The internal team did not run that session. Amorisoft did, so the CTO and remaining internal engineers could stay focused on the build.
The compliance instrumentation was completed 11 days before the audit date.
Results
The RBI compliance audit passed with zero flags. The platform launched 11 weeks after the augmented team was onboarded, recovering the 3-month delay that had accumulated before Amorisoft's involvement. At engagement close 6 of the 8 engineers were retained by the company as direct hires. Amorisoft facilitated all 6 transitions at no additional placement fee.