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Not Magic, Just Strategy: How We Hire Top Talent Without Sacrificing Quality, A Case Study With Stamped
Two hires. One month. 70% savings. Who needs fairy dust? This is remote hiring done right with Walter.
When fast-growing eCommerce SaaS brand Stamped needed to scale its Shopify development team, they had two big goals: hire fast and hire right.
With thousands of storefronts relying on their apps, they couldn’t gamble on untested talent or slow recruiting cycles. So Walter made it happen — delivering two Shopify app developers in just four weeks, saving Stamped 70% in hiring costs without sacrificing quality.
This is how a smart hiring strategy helped Stamped scale, strengthen their dev team, and keep their product moving forward at full speed.
🚀 Meet Stamped: Shopify’s Go-To for Reviews & Loyalty
Stamped isn’t your average SaaS. They’re the engine behind customer reviews and loyalty solutions for thousands of Shopify merchants — helping brands turn casual shoppers into repeat buyers.
With demand surging and the release pipeline in constant motion, Stamped’s engineering team needed reinforcements. But basic devs wouldn’t cut it. They were on the hunt for developers who were:
- Deeply familiar with the Shopify ecosystem and had direct experience building Shopify apps.
- Highly capable of working on core app features, improving performance, and scaling across thousands of storefronts.
- Fluent in English and comfortable in remote-first setups.
- Ready to collaborate across time zones.
Stamped’s mission was clear: find a Senior/Lead and an Intermediate Developer who could ship features fast, keep performance tight, and do it all without blowing the budget.
🚧 When Hiring Headaches Turn Into Business Risks
For Stamped’s talent acquisition team, the problem wasn’t figuring out what roles to fill — it was that every path to hiring came with costly trade-offs:
💪 High competition for niche expertise. Shopify developers are in short supply and high demand, which means the best ones get snapped up fast.
Posting a job online would attract plenty of generalists, but far fewer specialists — forcing Stamped to spend hours wading through resumes that were never going to make it to the offer stage.
💸 Premium salaries. The average US Shopify dev pulls in about $110,000 a year.[*] Hiring the traditional way would steal a massive chunk of budget, leaving less to fuel other growth priorities.
🙅♀️ Culture fit risks. Solid resumes don’t always guarantee that someone will thrive on your team. The wrong hire can cost up to 30% of that employee’s salary — and that’s before you factor in the lost time and momentum from starting the search all over again.[*]
⏰ Time-to-hire pressure. An understaffed or overextended team means releases get pushed back, bugs pile up, and your crew burns out from the extra work.
Without a network of pre-vetted talent, the search was slow, risky, and expensive. Stamped could have kept grinding through it on their own — but they knew there had to be a better way to scale.
✅ The Walter Way: How We Hire Top Remote Talent without Sacrificing Quality
Walter is a premier remote staffing agency that connects businesses with elite talent from Latin America and the Philippines. Our proven remote hiring strategies guarantee speed, precision, and cost savings without cutting corners.
🔍 Specialists on tap. We skip the generalist guessing game and go straight to expertise. Our talent pool is stacked with pre-vetted remote professionals ready to make an impact from day one.
🏋️ We do the heavy lifting. Resume reviews, skills assessments, initial interviews — Walter handles all that to curate a shortlist of the best candidates and filter out the maybes.
🤝 Culture fit locked in. Our human-led vetting process screens for communication style, remote readiness, and cross-cultural collaboration skills — so the first hire is the right hire.
With Walter, the risk, guesswork, and hiring drag disappear. So, how does this case study on scaling remote teams in LATAM and the Philippines end?
🏆 The Results: From Goals to Reality
Stamped didn’t just save money — they went from pain points to triumph. And we’ve got receipts:
🧑💻 Elevated technical leadership. The two Shopify developers hired via Walter provide architectural guidance and leadership that boost scalability and keep quality high.
🎯 Matched for culture + speed. Both hires are fluent in English, experienced in remote collaboration, and perfectly aligned with Stamped’s culture and pace.
📅 Onboarded in record time. From kickoff to signed contracts in one month!
💰 Saved 70% on payroll. Hiring top-tier remote talent at a fraction of traditional hiring costs frees the budget for innovation, not overhead.
😁 Kept promises, exceeded expectations. Stamped got exactly what they needed, with zero compromises or hiring headaches.
👉 Think you know the 5 Value-Driven Benefits of Hiring Remote Talent from These Regions?
🎉 5 Walter Benefits for Remote Team Growth & Expansion
Specialized talent + faster time-to-hire = quality without compromise. Walter benefits companies with:
😌 Hands-Off, Hassle-Free Recruitment. We handle sourcing, vetting, and shortlisting so you can scale faster and keep your focus where it belongs — on growing your business.
🤑 Cost-Effective Talent. Remote hiring in LATAM and the Philippines can save your business up to 80%. With Walter, there are no bloated agency retainers — you pay one transparent fee with zero surprise costs later.
⚡ Weeks, Not Months. With free background checks and assessments, we slash your hiring timeline to just 4 weeks from kickoff to onboarding.
🤝 Ongoing Support. We don’t ghost after the offer letter. Walter checks in monthly for the first six months to make sure your hire and your team are thriving together.
🙌 Risk-Free, 12-Month Guarantee. Our matches are more than “good on paper.” They integrate, contribute, and stick around, saving you from endless turnover cycles.
And if they’re not the right fit? We’ll replace them at no extra charge. Consider your bases covered.
🏊 Love a good deep dive? Read how Walter benefits companies here.
🙋 Want Your Own Remote Hiring Case Study?
We turned Stamped’s hiring struggles into a successful remote team expansion example any business can learn from. Now let’s make your hiring wins the story to copy.
Whether you’re looking for one standout hire or a fully-loaded offshore squad, Walter flips hiring from a bottleneck to a growth lever. You get pro-level recruiting, a faster path to scale, and a serious edge on the competition.
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