Hiring specialist engineers to advance FATMAP’s outdoor 3D mapping platform
“With Zebra People it feels as if you’d have an internal and technically competent recruitment team at your side. Given a proper briefing they present the role, your company and your culture brilliantly, and consistently deliver candidates who are genuinely fit. Zebra successfully placed two engineers within our Mobile team and another two into our 3D Engine team. We’ve had an uncomplicated, smooth and successful collaboration with them”
Erol Kutay, Senior Director - Software Engineering at Strava
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The challenge
Following its $16.5m Series A, FATMAP needed to rapidly expand its engineering capability to keep building one of the world’s most advanced outdoor 3D mapping platforms.
The challenge wasn’t simply finding software engineers. FATMAP needed specialists who could solve complex technical problems while thriving in the pace, ambiguity and culture of a fast-growing startup.
The brief covered Android, iOS and C++ engineering, all while the business migrated off React Native, built offline functionality and continued evolving its 3D engine.
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What we did
Working closely with FATMAP’s leadership team, we ran a highly targeted search across Mobile and C++ engineering talent.
Alongside assessing technical capability, we spent time understanding how candidates thought, solved problems and worked with others, looking for curiosity, adaptability and genuine enthusiasm for the product.
We presented candidates who matched both the technical challenge and the culture of the business.
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The outcome
Within six weeks, Zebra delivered two Mobile Engineers and two 3D Engine Engineers, expanding FATMAP’s engineering capability at a pivotal stage of growth and helping the business keep accelerating product development.
FATMAP went on to scale further and was ultimately acquired by Strava, bringing its market-leading 3D mapping technology to one of the world’s largest outdoor communities.
