Buzzhire

Partnership with STX Next

ongoing since June 2021

Buzzhire takes a fresh approach to recruiting temporary staff in the hospitality and delivery sectors. Since 2015, their platform has been connecting employers with workers in a way that is fast, efficient, and effective. Clients looking for staff on a short-term basis are matched with suitable and available people in their area. The technology-driven solution offered by Buzzhire means that last-minute staff shortages can be filled in a very quick turnaround time.

INDUSTRY
Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism

COUNTRY
United Kingdom

Best Startup Award Winner

100,000+ registered BuzzWorkers

and 5,000+ clients in the UK

The Berry Recruitment Group

merged with Buzzhire in 2021

Project details

Buzzhire’s platform lets companies in the hospitality and delivery industries search for temporary staff who are immediately available. An extensive database of workers matches businesses with workers based on location, availability, and experience. Workers are notified of the vacancy and can register their interest in the position.

The app guides workers through the whole process of the shift. They are advised on the time they should leave their home, how to reach the job location, how to perform the shift, and when to log in and out. At the end of each shift, workers can rate the employer, and the employer can rate the worker. This rating system helps users make informed decisions in the future.

Buzzhire: UK Temporary Staff Recruitment Platform – Case Study

STX Next Delivered

End-to-End Solution

Product Design

DevOps

Backend DevOps

Automated + Manual QA

Deployment

Frontend Development

Backend Development

Mobile Development

Jakub Korociński

Product Owner, STX Next

The collaboration has been very close. The client is very involved in the product while still giving us space.

Challenge

The mobile app is key to the success of Buzzhire’s operation. Workers are notified of available shifts through the app with no need to see the webpage. Buzzhire wanted to raise the overall standard of their mobile app and add new functionalities to keep them ahead of the market.

At the beginning of the partnership, it was clear that changes would need to be made to the operational system to keep up with ongoing regulations. Technical debt had to be reduced and maintenance was essential to continue providing a well-performing application. One of the main goals in the roadmap was to expand a locally operating system to the whole UK.

Solution

A priority throughout this project was to reduce technological debt, replace the old mobile app, and introduce national coverage for the system. In order to achieve this, we updated the versions of Python, React, Node, and RDS PostgreSQL DB that were being used. To ensure high-quality code for the future, we introduced monitoring for which we used the applications Prometheus and Grafana.

Frontend improvements were made using TypeScript, ESlint, Prettier, Enzyme, and JEST. On the backend, by changing the existing uWSGi server to Gunicorn, we stopped memory leaking and the CPU utilization from being overwhelmed. Fabric3 mechanisms were also added to automate deployment on the development, staging, production environments.

As the collaboration continues, we’re starting to produce new features for commands.

Python

JavaScript

React Native

Amazon S3

Bitbucket

Django

Django REST Framework

Git

Google Firebase

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Sentry

PyTest

Jira

Rest API

Browse more projects

Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism

Tiqets

Tiqets is an innovative platform for booking tickets to museums and attractions around the world. Its stated mission is to make culture more accessible to everyone by offering instant, last-minute, paper-free mobile tickets to both top attractions and hidden gems.

See full case study

Fintech, Banking and Crypto

Blocktrade.com

Blocktrade is a state-of-the-art crypto trading platform that prioritizes speed, reliability and safety. In the next decade Crypto Assets will overtake the financial world and Blocktrade.com will be the Trading Facility where these assets will trade.

See full case study

Entertainment, Gaming and Sports

DIGIT Game Studios

DIGIT Game Studios is the largest game developer in Ireland, founded in 2012. With their vastly talented team of over 70 people, DIGIT makes free-to-play mobile strategy games. Released in 2014, the studio’s first game, Kings of the Realm, became a worldwide hit and the highest-grossing strategy game in over 50 countries. DIGIT followed up on their successful debut in 2018 with the release of Star Trek Fleet Command.

See full case study

Education and Culture

Zappi

Zappi is a new company on the UK supply teaching market. They come with 20 years of experience in recruitment and education and a strong focus on positive user experience and employee happiness. Their new app effortlessly connects teaching and support staff with local schools for supply work. The idea is to revolutionize this process, changing the way classrooms and supply staff connect, to make it easier, faster and far more transparent for schools and supply staff. Zappi teachers lead to happy kids!

See full case study

Fintech, Banking and Crypto

Volkswagen Bank
Leasing Poland

VB Leasing Poland SA is part of VB-Leasing International Holding GmbH. It is a member of the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken association of banks. Today it is one of the leading leasing companies in Central and Eastern Europe and the leading company on the Polish market.

See full case study

Buzzhire

ongoing since June 2021

100,000+ registered BuzzWorkers

The Berry Recruitment Group

Project details

STX Next Delivered

Jakub Korociński

Challenge

Solution

Browse more projects

Tiqets

Blocktrade.com

DIGIT Game Studios

Zappi

Volkswagen BankLeasing Poland

Volkswagen Bank
Leasing Poland