Building The First All-Digital Bank in The Middle East

The project is supported by one of the region’s leading government innovation programs as part of a long-term strategy to place the country on the map of tech giants in the Middle East and beyond. After an extensive selection process and detailed vetting procedures, the company partnered with Scalefocus and tasked us with building their new cutting-edge banking solution. Our FinTech and delivery expertise coupled with a highly agile development approach singled us out as the most qualified technology partner that would rise to the challenge.

The core leadership managing the project consisted of senior-level experts who applied their know-how in the context of the ongoing shift to digitalization in the Middle East. To ensure maximum collaboration, transparency across a very large and scaling team, we adopted the Spotify agile model. We operated with squads - cross-functional, autonomous teams that focus on certain product and business goals, and chapters where specialists align on best practices, engineering standards and solution design companywide.

This created a strong solidarity within the teams, high sense of ownership and responsibility and reduced the typical blocking interdependencies in a large-scale organization. Project management was agile, strictly following the Scrum framework, which helped us solve challenges quickly and effectively while working with rigorous standards and quality control.

• In-depth analysis of business objectives, KPI's and creation of an action plan

• MVP closed testing version released within just 3 months

• Leveraging our expertise in Mobile, Backend, Automation, DevSecOps, Big Data

• Tech stack with cutting-edge technologies aimed at increasing security and performance (Spring, Golang, React, Swift, Kotlin, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Oracle, Docker, K8s, Hashi)