Software development
Media & Entertainment
Empowering PlayOn! Sports IT Teams to Expand Streaming & Ticketing Services
About the company
PlayOn! Sports is a premier high school digital media company that connects fans nationwide to their favorite sporting events. Today, it offers live streams at thousands of high schools across the U.S., easily purchased through its digital ticketing platform. At the same time, it’s a leader in sports coverage, scores, statistics and more. Since 2013, PlayOn! has worked in partnership with the NFHS Network to manage the media rights of athletics associations and spotlight student-athletes, student broadcasters and more.
The challenge
As the nation’s leading high school media company, PlayOn! Sports was looking to extend its live streaming and digital ticketing capabilities.
Specifically, PlayOn! needed to bolster its technical teams to seamlessly handle its expansion plans. To that end, it required 24 additional senior professionals who were:
- Technically excellent in their fields
- Available in the local time zone
- Culturally aligned with PlayOn! teams
- English proficient for optimal collaboration
- Cost-effective for long-term growth
Ultimately, PlayOn! trusted Nearsure to increase its technical power and streamline its expansion efforts. As a result, the extended teams would help boost ticket sales from fans across the country.
Project owner
Our Solution
To meet its ambitious expansion plans, PlayOn! needed to fill 24 vacancies across eight specialized roles. What’s more, it was looking to scale up this extra manpower within just six months.
Our mission was to build a strong technical team for PlayOn! within this timeframe, so that it could successfully roll-out key streaming and ticketing services. The stakes were high to bring the right talent to the table and make its expansion strategy a home run.
Our process
We leveraged our talent network and deep market knowledge to pinpoint the best candidates in Latin America. Through our LATAM tailored hiring services, we prioritized recruitment efficiency and candidate fit. As a result, we quickly found the ideal technical experts to ramp up PlayOn!’s requirements.
Our team
24 positions, 8 roles:
- Sr. QA Engineer
- Sr. Fullstack Engineer
- Sr. Backend Golang Engineer
- Sr. Data Engineer
- Sr. Frontend Engineer
- Sr. Backend Engineer
- Semi Sr. Frontend Engineer
- Senior Product Manager
Our focus areas
- Software Development
- Data Engineering
- QA Testing
- Product Management
- Staff Augmentation
Tech stack
- Golang
Our winning results
As a result, we filled all required roles for PlayOn! with an average time-to-fill of 29 workdays and an average time-to-sit of 32 workdays. With our rapid and precise hiring services, the extended technical team was set up for success almost immediately.
Additionally, we hired professionals from across Latin America, enabling a range of perspectives and skills to enhance PlayOn!’s projects moving forward. Hiring locations included Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
Ultimately, with our rapid-fire hiring approach, we assembled a winning team of top-tier Latin American tech talent ready to collaborate and get results for PlayOn!.
Our key contributions
- Filled all 24 technical roles, including highly specialized and senior positions.
- Achieved an impressive average time-to-fill of 29 workdays and an average time-to-sit of 32 workdays.
- Hired from diverse LATAM locales, including Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
