TownSq - Specialized Hunting and Assertive Hiring of Professionals for the IT Field

Client
TownSq 

Area
Condominium management 

Summarized Problem
TownSq needed to expand its technical team to support the growth of its products, opening positions such as iOS Developer and Back-End Developer. The challenge was not only to fill the technology roles, but to find candidates who truly matched the required profile, both technically and behaviorally. The core issue was the search for professionals capable of working autonomously, acting as technical references, collaborating in small, agile teams, ensuring code quality, and proposing continuous improvements. In addition, the requirement for advanced conversational English increased the complexity, since the company also has operations and headquarters in the United States, which further restricted the number of suitable candidates. 

Summarized Solution
Visionnaire took over the Hunting process for TownSq, leading all specialized IT recruitment from a detailed understanding of the openings through to the final interviews with the company. The solution was based on Visionnaire’s expertise in Hunting and Human Resources, applying a rigorous selection process focused on finding highly technical professionals who were also aligned with TownSq’s organizational culture. The team carefully assessed the client’s cultural context and managed recruitment end to end, ensuring that only candidates in full harmony with the company’s values were presented, which increased the assertiveness of the hires and reduced business risks. 

Results
Visionnaire was essential in helping TownSq during a period of extremely high demand for specialized IT professionals, which began with the COVID-19 pandemic.

In total, Visionnaire helped TownSq complete five recruitment processes for the following positions: 

With Visionnaire’s expertise, TownSq was able to overcome a challenge common to many businesses of different sectors and sizes: hiring highly specialized professionals capable of performing essential functions for the technological development of companies. 

With agility, assertiveness, and quality in the recruitment and selection process for IT professionals, both the time and cost of hiring were reduced, while ensuring technical and cultural alignment between candidates and the organization. 

Therefore, Visionnaire provided TownSq with improved recruitment efficiency, the hiring of technically strong and culturally aligned talents, reduced hiring costs and risk, and the establishment of a strategic partnership. 

Technologies
For filling the mentioned positions, the required technologies varied in each case. 

For the iOS position: Swift (main requirement), iOS SDKs, Reactive Programming (RxSwift/Combine), and knowledge of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). 

For the other positions: Java, creation of RESTful APIs and solid experience with Microservices (a non-negotiable point), relational and non-relational databases, DevOps practices (CI/CD), knowledge of IaaS (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and functional programming (Kotlin, Scala, or Groovy). 

Visionnaire has extensive experience in Hunting, with deep knowledge and skill in this area. We specialize in several technologies and have experts in software, websites, agile methodologies, applications, Human Resources, Cloud Computing, DevOps, and other domains, aligning companies with ideal professionals according to the business needs of all sizes and segments. We emphasize that we search for and select the best professionals not only for their technical profile, but also for their compatibility with the company’s culture. 

With more than 29 years of experience in software development, Visionnaire interacts with countless IT specialists, having access to a network of talented candidates and its own database. We use Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), which make the selection process easier by enabling the analysis of résumés. 

Our highly qualified team and broad network of contacts make it possible to start projects, assess candidates, and form competent teams efficiently. Once the appropriate profile has been identified, both technically and culturally, and aligned with the role’s requirements, we proceed with the necessary negotiations for hiring between the professional and the client company. In each process, we approach hundreds of professionals for a single opening, ensuring that all client requirements are met. 

Our specialists use advanced tools to identify talent, manage people, and analyze profiles in an integrated way, delivering solutions that optimize time and investment, including state-of-the-art tools that use Artificial Intelligence. 

We act proactively and have agreements that facilitate job advertising and the use of slots in ATS systems, reducing costs for clients. We advertise on specialized platforms, conduct personalized interviews, and apply technical tests to IT candidates to ensure the selection of the best professionals. 

We use modern tools that, combined with our advanced technological process, allow us to deliver results with precision, quality, and speed. We manage the professionals hired on an outsourced basis through a dedicated member of our team, at no additional cost, ensuring quality oversight and bringing more security, predictability, and efficiency to companies. 

We strictly comply with labor laws and outsourcing regulations, respecting the reforms introduced in Brazil in 2017. Our goal is to provide specialized assistance and guide companies toward the best choices and convincing results.

Detailed Problem
TownSq is a company based in Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, that offers solutions such as apps, courses, and plans for condominiums and property management companies, with the purpose of connecting building managers, neighbors, and all condominium members through different tools and services. 

The company faced the need to expand its technical team and was seeking partnerships to support the recruitment of candidates for open technology positions (for example, iOS Developer and Back-End Developer). 

The core challenge, however, was not just to fill these positions, but to find professionals with specific profiles and technical maturity to work autonomously, since TownSq needed more seasoned professionals (Mid-Level or Senior). They had to be able to start with little support and act as technical references for the team. In addition, these professionals needed to collaborate with small teams in an agile environment, being responsible for code quality and identifying improvements. Advanced English for conversation was also a requirement, since the company had its headquarters in the United States. 

Detailed Solution
Visionnaire, through a specialized Hunting service (Recruitment and Selection of IT Professionals), became responsible for interacting to understand the job openings, conducting preliminary interviews, sending a form with an executive summary of each candidate, and scheduling final interviews with TownSq, with a guarantee of replacement at no additional cost if the professional did not adapt or if the company withdrew within a period of one month (30 days). 

Success in several processes is the result of our experience in Hunting. This work requires a rigorous selection process that considers not only the candidate’s technical skills, but also their alignment with the company’s culture and values. 

Given the complexity and challenge of filling certain IT positions, the Hunting service must be carried out by experienced professionals, such as the Visionnaire team, which identified and recruited the talents best suited to TownSq’s specific needs, using its expertise in Human Resources to manage the recruitment and selection process end to end. 

Although the technical aspect of the positions is fundamental, cultural alignment is also decisive, as each company has its own organizational identity. For this reason, Visionnaire carefully evaluates each client’s cultural context, ensuring that the candidates presented are in full harmony with the company’s values and corporate culture, fully meeting the organization’s expectations.

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