Case study
Barça Mobile: A Seven-Person Engineering Team for New Era Visionary Group
Barça Mobile is a consumer super app for a global football audience, delivered by New Era Visionary Group. TalentSync assembled a dedicated seven-person engineering team for the integrator — backend, front end, Android and QA — supporting the development and delivery of the product. This page states which roles were filled, what the team worked on, and what TalentSync did not do.
The engagement at a glance
- Client
- New Era Visionary Group
- Sector
- Master Systems Integrator
- Role placed
- 7 × engineers: 2 Backend Java Developers, 2 Frontend Developers, 2 Android/Kotlin Multiplatform Specialists, 1 QA Engineer
- Stack
- Java, web front end, Android and Kotlin Multiplatform, test automation
- Time to signature
- Not recorded
- TalentSync’s role
- Team assembly, sourcing and technical vetting
Time to signature is measured from the agreed role brief to the signed offer, for this engagement. It is a record, not a service level.
“The engineers TalentSync sourced integrated straight into our team and delivered on time. A key partner during the Barça Mobile build.”
Who the client actually is
Two names appear around this engagement and they are not interchangeable. New Era Visionary Group is the master systems integrator delivering the programme and the party TalentSync contracted with. Barça Mobile is the product.
We are explicit about this because a recruitment company that lets a football club’s brand imply a client relationship is making a claim it cannot support. FC Barcelona is not a TalentSync client. The engineers we placed worked on a programme delivered for that brand, inside the delivery organisation’s own teams.
If you need the contracting chain confirmed before you rely on any of it, ask on a call and we will describe it exactly as it is.
The team we assembled
Seven engineers, sourced and technically vetted by TalentSync and selected by the client: two Backend Java Developers, two Frontend Developers, two Android/Kotlin Multiplatform Specialists and one QA Engineer. The client interviewed every candidate and made every hiring decision; we ran the search and the technical screen for each role.
The team joined the client’s programme as a dedicated unit rather than as seven separate hires. They used the client’s repositories, the client’s review process and the client’s definition of done, and they reported to the client’s technical leadership.
Assembling seven people who have to work together is a different job from filling seven seats: the levels have to be comparable, the start dates have to line up, and the mobile, backend and QA roles have to be screened against one product rather than three job descriptions.
What the team worked on
The development and delivery of Barça Mobile: backend services in Java, the web front end, the Android application built with Kotlin Multiplatform, and the test automation that gated releases. The architecture was the client’s, and so were the decisions.
That is the useful part of this entry for a hiring manager. It tells you the shape of team our engineers have worked in — a consumer product with a fixed external launch date, a mobile and backend split, and QA embedded in the delivery team — which is a better predictor of fit than a logo.
What we are not claiming
We did not own the programme and we did not launch the product. The team we assembled supported New Era Visionary Group’s delivery; the integrator owned the architecture, the roadmap and the release.
We have also removed the app-store download figure that used to sit on this engagement. It was a client product metric being presented as a TalentSync result, there is no public linkable source for it, and the fact that it is impressive is exactly why it should not be borrowed.
Everything left on this page is something the client would confirm.
If you are hiring for work like this
A dedicated team for a product with a launch date is the case our software development outsourcing model is built for: we assemble the team, take responsibility for delivery against an agreed plan, and you keep the outcome, the acceptance criteria and the priorities.
If you would rather hold the team yourself, the same seven roles can be filled one by one through direct B2B recruitment. Tell us at the brief which you want; it changes how we screen.
Ask us about the New Era Visionary Group engagement
We will walk you through what actually happened, including what did not go smoothly, and tell you honestly whether your role is one we can fill.