Extending the team behind a digital banking platform
Infocorp builds digital banking technology used by more than 40 banks across Latin America and the Caribbean. Alabama adds embedded engineering capacity directly into the teams evolving its digital banking platform.
01 / The challenge
Keep a mature banking platform moving.
Infocorp's digital banking platform supports retail, business and corporate banking experiences across multiple countries and financial institutions.
Its technology is deployed across more than 40 banks, reaching millions of users and processing more than 120 million transactions every month.
At that scale, the challenge is not simply building new features. The platform needs to keep evolving while preserving the reliability, security and flexibility expected by banks already running on it.
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Scale
More than 40 banks, millions of users and over 120 million transactions every month.
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Reliability & Security
Standards already expected by the financial institutions running on the platform.
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Flexibility
One platform serving different banks, countries and banking segments.
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Competing Priorities
New capabilities, customer requirements and product improvements all compete for engineering capacity.
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No Extra Delivery Layer
Infocorp needed additional capacity without creating a separate delivery structure around its existing teams.
02 / The approach
Join the team, not work around it.
For this engagement, a separate project team would have created unnecessary distance.
Instead, Alabama engineers work directly inside Infocorp's engineering organization: same backlog, same tools, same engineering practices, same product priorities.
The model is deliberately simple: add experienced engineers where the product team needs additional capacity and let them operate as part of the existing organization.
That means understanding not only the codebase, but also the architecture, banking domain, product decisions and standards that have accumulated over years of platform development.
- EMBEDDED ENGINEERING
- SHARED BACKLOG
- LONG-TERM CONTEXT
- ONGOING DELIVERY
03 / The solution
Engineering capacity inside the product team.
Alabama engineers contribute to the ongoing development and evolution of Infocorp's digital banking platform.
Rather than owning a separate application, the team works across the same product and technology environment as Infocorp's internal engineers.
Product Evolution
Development of new capabilities and continuous improvements across an established digital banking product.
PRODUCT ENGINEERING · CONTINUOUS DELIVERYBanking Experience
Engineering within a platform designed to support different banking segments, channels and customer journeys.
DIGITAL BANKING · OMNICHANNELPlatform Development
Work within a mature technology platform with existing architecture, integrations and engineering standards.
PLATFORM ENGINEERING · INTEGRATIONSEmbedded Collaboration
Direct collaboration with Infocorp's product and engineering organization instead of operating through a separate outsourced project structure.
EMBEDDED TEAM · SHARED DELIVERY04 / The results
More capacity without creating another team to manage.
The engagement gives Infocorp additional engineering capacity inside an organization and platform that already have established ways of working.
Because the relationship is ongoing, context accumulates over time. Engineers become familiar with the platform, understand the product and learn the banking domain.
And they can contribute with progressively less onboarding and coordination overhead.
- ONGOING ENGAGEMENT
- long-term engineering capacity
- EMBEDDED DELIVERY
- working directly with Infocorp teams
- 40+ BANKS
- platform footprint across Latin America and the Caribbean
- 120M+ TRANSACTIONS / MONTH
- scale behind the platform being evolved
05 / The bigger story
Sometimes the problem is not a project that needs to be outsourced.
Sometimes a strong engineering organization simply has more roadmap than team. Infocorp is a good example of the second case.
Alabama adds experienced engineers directly into an established product organization, giving the team more capacity while preserving its architecture, processes and way of working.
No parallel delivery organization. Just more engineering capacity where it is needed.