Services
Cloud Solutions, Digital Transformation, Web Development
Industries
Financial Services
Product
Our client is a US-based fintech company specializing in solutions tailored for microloan providers. Their all-inclusive SaaS platform offers turnkey solutions that streamline every aspect of the loan-providing process. This covers everything from website interface and loan application workflows to credit management, legal compliance, and secure payment systems. Svitla Systems delivered a full spectrum of technical support to ensure the successful transformation and growth of our client’s business model.
Business needs
- Refactor the existing legacy SaaS platform to facilitate business process improvements across the entire organization, enhance users’ engagements, and attract new business partners.
- Upgrade the application by consolidating solutions from multiple providers into a unified codebase, while maintaining continuous product development and deployment.
- Improve Single Page Application (SPA) approach to enhance the system’s maintainability and provide greater flexibility for future development.
- Enable customers to update their personal information independently, thereby reducing the operational burden on support staff and simplifying the loan application process.
- Develop a robust customer account portal offering functionalities such as making payments, tracking loan statuses, redeeming gift cards, applying promo codes, and uploading necessary documents.
- Streamline the operational processes in the customer journey for securing additional loans by identifying and eliminating any barriers or friction points.
- Establish a framework that simplifies the launching of new financial products and makes it easier to onboard new vendors.
Suggested solutions from svitla
- Built a new client-side SPA application from scratch using the latest versions of Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Bulma, and SCSS.
- Implemented best practices in SPA design and utilized a BEM (Block Element Modifier) component-based approach.
- Updated the current backend PHP/Laravel and all libraries to the latest secure versions.
- Integrated tokens for secure communication with the backend.
- Implemented OWASP security best practices at every stage of development.
- Ensured that all new features were continuously delivered without interrupting ongoing product development, so customers didn’t have to wait for everything to be completed.
- Separated frontend and backend onto different servers for improved performance and scalability.
- Made necessary database improvements and normalized the database structure.
- Establish CI/CD automation for smoother development and deployment processes.
- Automated unit and feature testing.
- Set up integrations with third-party providers such as bank account and bank cards verification, call centers (600+ people), live chats, and gift card services.
- For new projects, designed applications from the ground up using technologies like React.js, Next.js, Bulma, SCSS, HTML, SSR, SPA, and BEM.
Technologies
Frontend: Vue.js, Nuxt.js, React.js, Next.js, Bulma, SCSS, HTML, SSR, SPA, BEM
Backend: Lavarel, PHP
Code style: Prettier, Stylelint
Tests: Jest, Lighthouse, Nightwatch
Cloud: AWS EC2, Cognito, AWS S3, AWS RDS, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
CI/CD: Jenkins, webpack, Docker
Database: MySQL, Redis
Value delivered
- The client received a new full-featured platform that automates and simplifies all interactions between microloan providers and their customers.
- More efficient application performance and simplified database management.
- Enhanced system security features mitigate risks, while infrastructure optimizations resulted in notable cost savings.
- The user experience was elevated through more intuitive interfaces, leading to better customer retention and accessibility.
- Implementation of CI/CD automation speeded up the development cycle and reduced the overhead associated with code support and feature deployment.
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