Mango

Overview

MANGO is a clothing design and manufacturing spanish company founded in 1984 in Barcelona. MANGO is one of the leading fashion groups in the world, the company has an extensive store network of 2,200 stores in 109 countries.

Making the app a better one (improving usability and creating a more secure payment process, as example) and opening new markets are key on MANGO’s roadmap.

MANGO is also seeking to improve the franchisees cooperation and ease the process of adding a new franchisee with a new API and a new data model.

Situation

MANGO is growing a lot and needs senior profiles to complete their teams and improve the quality of their software, bringing it to the next level. Some sections/divisions where Apiumhub is helping MANGO to exceed are:

Mobile application development
- Implementation and coordination of AB tests.
- Implementation of features to increase purchases through the app.
- Implementation of features to increase user’s satisfaction using the app.
- Implementation of tools to improve internal resource management.
- Refactorization of legacy code to be prepared for future challenges.
Payments
- Integration with new credit card payment provider services.
- Integration with new alternative post-payment providers.
- Functional code evangelization.
- Introduction of new real-time alert systems in accordance with business decision processes.
- XP programming maturation
Backend Apps
- Implementation of a CMS to automate the upload of images to the App by business personnel

Goals

Deliver high quality software reducing time to market.
Exceed on performance and quality of MANGO products.
Refactor many parts of the existing backend and applications.

technologies used

Java, Kotlin, Docker, BDD, K8s, AWS, Swift.

Results

Mango team is satisfied with the results and works hand in hand with Apiumhub team to launch new features and keep implementing best practices

Challenges

A big part of Mango’s platform is legacy.
Mango’s system has a high complexity, mixing different technologies and multiple teams.
Remove objective C and java code from the applications, updating them to state-of-the-art technologies, while delivering new features.
Bring best practices to the team.
Move from a webApp version of the app to a native app implementation.