Business Challenge:

Stella & Dot is an online social selling company offering collections of fashion jewelry, costume jewelry and accessories. Stella & Dot, one of Inc 500s fastest growing companies (http://bit.ly/stelladot-inc500) and backed by Sequoia Capital and Radar Partners, is a billion-dollar global brand in the making. Customer needed ecommerce store in order to sell jewelry, cloths, bags etc. Different payment methods and integrations with third-party APIs should be implemented in the first version of the product.

How we helped:

• setup spree commerce gem(solidus) for the ecommerce store. this allowed to manage easily skus, products, category, taxes and all other ecom store related stuff
• setup CircleCI and heroku for easy deployments
• setup Amazon CloudFront CDN, S3, nginx
• setup elasticsearch for faster searching products, categories by many fields
• developed integrations with several payment systems such as paypal, applepay, braintree.
• third-party integrations with sendgrid, braintree, avatax
• developed frontend with use of stimulus and jQuery
• setup test infrastructure

Technology stack used:

• Ruby On Rails
• Sidekiq
• ElasticSearch
• CircleCI
• PostgreSQL
• jQuery
• Stimulus
• Heroku

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