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Case study · Singapore · HR tech

Scaled Qualee's team to 22 without slowing the roadmap.

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How did InApps help Qualee?

Qualee, an HR tech company in Singapore, runs an employee experience platform on web, iOS and Android. Its roadmap needed more engineers, fast, and a product that stayed stable while it grew. InApps, a software company in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, scaled a 22-member development team on a tight timeline, shipped continuous releases for 18 months, improved stability and performance on all three platforms, and handed the product over to Qualee's own team.

Qualee logoSingapore
  • 22membersDevelopment team
  • 18monthsOf continuous releases
Industry
HR Tech B2B SaaS
Services
Web & Mobile Development Maintenance & Support
Main technologies
Laravel Swift Java AWS

About Qualee

Qualee builds an employee experience platform: onboarding journeys, learning, surveys and eNPS, messaging and analytics, delivered as a client-branded mobile app with a web dashboard. In its own words, “our cloud-hosted, client-branded, mobile app solution delivers uniquely engaging experiences.”

The challenge

Qualee's roadmap was moving faster than its development capacity. It needed more engineers on a tight timeline, a product that stayed stable as usage grew, and new features landing on web, iOS and Android together, while a second technology partner worked on the same product.

Adding people fast usually slows a product down before it speeds it up.

The solution

We grew the team to 22 people on a tight timeline, adding roles as the roadmap needed them, so new engineers added speed instead of slowing the others down. A technical lead owned the interfaces with Qualee's second technology partner. We shipped web, iOS and Android on one continuous release rhythm for 18 months, and worked on stability and performance alongside new features. At the end we handed the product to Qualee's own team, with full documentation and training.

How we build offshore teams
22 people
  • Technical lead
  • Project manager
  • Backend engineers
  • iOS and Android engineers
  • QA engineers

The stack

Laravel PHP Swift Java Android Firebase AWS
Qualee's web dashboard comparing eNPS by office, beside two screens from the Qualee mobile app: an events calendar and an event invitation with RSVP buttons

The outcome

A bigger team, a steadier product, and a roadmap that kept moving.

  • A 22-member development team, built on a tight timeline.
  • Continuous releases for 18 months, at high velocity.
  • Better stability and performance on web, iOS and Android.
  • A clean handover: documentation and training for Qualee's own team.
Web dashboard iOS app Android app Visit qualee.com

Source: InApps project records; screens from qualee.com.

Questions about this project

What did InApps do for Qualee?
InApps scaled Qualee's development team to 22 members on a tight timeline and shipped continuous releases of its employee experience platform for 18 months, on web, iOS and Android. InApps, a software company in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, also improved the platform's stability and performance, and handed the product over to Qualee's internal team with documentation and training.
How did InApps grow the team without slowing delivery?
By adding roles as the roadmap needed them rather than all at once, and by keeping one release rhythm across web, iOS and Android. A technical lead owned the technical interfaces with Qualee's second technology partner, so decisions did not wait on a go-between.
Which technologies does the Qualee platform use?
A Laravel and PHP backend on AWS, a native iOS app in Swift and a native Android app in Java, with Firebase for push notifications and real-time data sync across web and mobile.
Can a Vietnam-based team work for a Singapore company?
Yes. Singapore is one hour ahead of Vietnam, so the two working days share almost all their hours. For Qualee, a Singapore HR tech company, InApps ran a 22-member team from Ho Chi Minh City for 18 months of continuous releases.
How does InApps scale a development team for a product company?
With a team that grows in step with the roadmap and stays to run what it built. For Qualee that was an offshore development center in Ho Chi Minh City. InApps also offers a dedicated development team, IT staff augmentation for single roles, and software maintenance and support once a product is live.

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An InApps engineer at work in the Ho Chi Minh City office