How Trade Technologies has staffed .NET, QA and support in Mexico for more than four years
A six-role team across .NET full-stack engineering, quality assurance and technical support, staffed from Mexico and still running four years on.
Trade Finance · .NET · Staff Augmentation
IN A NUTSHELL
Trade Technologies needed sustained capacity across a .NET stack, quality assurance and technical support. That is the least glamorous shape of engineering demand and one of the hardest to staff well: too continuous for project contractors, too specialized to hire casually.
CodersLink filled six roles across three disciplines and the same scope has run continuously since 2022. The company’s CTO puts the cost position at around 30% below what other developers would have cost them.
Overview
About the client
Trade Technologies provides web-based software and outsourced services that help exporters, trade banks and freight forwarders prepare and manage international trade documentation. Its TradeSharp platform digitizes the document sets required for letters of credit and export shipments, with versions tailored for banks and for the EMEA, Asia and Americas regions. The company has been operating since 1999.
Trade Technologies engaged CodersLink for Staff Augmentation: senior Mexican engineers, vetted to the Top 1% Standard, embedded into the existing team on a per-engineer contract.
Sourcing ran from CodersLink’s warm community pipeline rather than a cold search, so roles were filled from a community that had already been engaged and assessed. Every profile went through five-layer vetting against a 75-point gate: communication, soft skills, a live technical screen, background verification and references. Trade Technologies ran its own interviews and made its own hiring decisions on every role.
Key decision: scope the engagement as three named disciplines rather than a block of capacity. It is slower to fill and far more durable, which is the trade that mattered for a system measured in years rather than sprints.
Impact
The Results
Outcome: a six-role team across .NET full-stack engineering, QA and technical support, staffed continuously since 2022 and active today.
Six roles filled across three disciplines over the life of the engagement.
Around 30% lower cost than the alternative, in the CTO’s own assessment. Client-reported; not a figure CodersLink measured.
More than four years of continuity, so the engineers who learned the codebase are the ones still maintaining it.
7–8 hours of daily overlap with US business hours.
Their developers are strong contributors to TradeTech product, helping us make money and save money on what other developers could have cost us. CodersLink’s developers costs us around 30% less.
NEXT STEP
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