We Select

We Select

Industry: Recruitment Technology / Talent Acquisition
Region: Sweden
Website: weselect.com

Overview

We Select is a Stockholm-based recruitment technology platform specializing in talent acquisition and employer branding across Europe. Since 2011, it has connected high-quality candidates with top organizations through an automated hiring ecosystem. However, rising localized development costs began limiting growth and scalability.

Build NYC Tech partnered with We Select to provide a cost-efficient, high-performance engineering team. Taking full ownership of a broad technical scope—including web crawlers, data pipelines, backend systems, and platform architecture—the team quickly mastered the candidate pipeline lifecycle, refactored legacy features, and built a highly scalable Applicant Tracking System (ATS). They also optimized the multi-channel advertising engine across platforms like LinkedIn, Snapchat, and Indeed, while integrating major Swedish job boards such as AMS.

The result was a more robust and scalable platform featuring advanced recruitment analytics, seamless interview and background check integrations, and significantly faster feature delivery through an optimized resource model.

Challenges

  • Rapid domain onboarding: The distributed team needed to quickly master complex recruitment workflows, intricate candidate pipelines, and multi-stage screening processes.
  • Complex logic mapping: Understanding deep engineering dependencies across screening stages and successfully adapting the platform to specific Swedish market nuances required meticulous system analysis.
  • Architecture migration: Transitioning core code ownership and architectural custody from previous European developers to a unified, remote team without disrupting live operations was highly complex.
  • Legacy system integration: New features had to be introduced and integrated directly into a heavy, pre-existing system while maintaining absolute stability for live global operations.

Solutions

  • Accelerated onboarding frameworks: Build NYC Tech deployed a structured technical onboarding approach to rapidly absorb recruitment workflows, candidate lifecycles, and system-wide dependencies.
  • Unified engineering model: Implemented a comprehensive, all-in-one execution strategy covering web crawlers, data engineering, backend development, and frontend delivery under a single coordinated team.
  • Infrastructure consolidation: Centralized the management of crawling engines, data pipelines, and core application layers into a unified stack for cleaner control and operational efficiency.
  • Refactoring and optimization: Systematically audited and overhauled existing platform features to improve modularity, lower technical debt, and ensure long-term maintainability.
  • Scalable core architecture: Redesigned core system components to seamlessly support rapid, parallel feature development and fuel the platform’s long-term business growth.
  • Cost-efficient scaling: Enabled We Select to scale and deploy multiple developers within their historical single-resource budget—drastically increasing engineering throughput, daily code output, and overall innovation capacity.