AI-Staff Augmentation: Recruitment Software
See how InApps's PHP/Laravel/React team modernized Perform Zone's decade-old recruitment platform over a 16-month IT staff augmentation engagement.
All-in-One Recruitment & Applicant Tracking Software
Perform Zone runs an all-in-one recruitment and applicant tracking platform used by recruitment agencies and employers across Australia to post jobs, manage candidates, and track placements. After more than 10 years in production, the platform needed a technology refresh and a steady stream of new features, without risking the live workflows agencies and employers depended on daily.
InApps supplied an IT staff augmentation team of PHP, Laravel, and React developers who worked directly inside Perform Zone's roadmap, migrating legacy components to modern technology and building new functionality on an ongoing basis.
Project goals
- Migrate a 10+ year old recruitment platform to modern PHP, Laravel and React technology
- Build new features based on direct client requirements
- Maintain platform stability for live recruitment agencies and employers
- Support multi-job-board posting and candidate management workflows
- Sustain continuous feature delivery across a 16-month engagement
Client requirements
Across each key area, these requirements shaped every architectural and product decision we made.
Legacy System Modernization
Perform Zone needed a staff augmentation team that could work inside an aging PHP codebase without breaking features agencies and employers relied on every day.
- PHP Laravel migration
- React frontend modernization
- AWS infrastructure support
- Zero-downtime deployment practices
Long-Term Development Capacity
Rather than a single project handoff, Perform Zone needed embedded developers who could sustain feature delivery over many months.
- Continuous feature delivery
- 16-month engagement length
- Direct collaboration with in-house product team
- Flexible scope as priorities shifted
Recruitment Workflow Functionality
As an all-in-one recruitment tool, the platform needed to keep supporting core workflows recruitment agencies and employers depend on for hiring at scale.
- Job posting and candidate search
- Candidate management and tracking
- Multi-job-board distribution
- Employer and recruiter account management
Platform Foundation for Training Delivery
Beyond core recruitment functionality, Perform Zone needed the platform to support online and face-to-face training programs for its client base.
- Scalable foundation for online training
- Support for face-to-face training programs
- Content delivery infrastructure
- Integration with existing recruitment workflows
Business challenges
The core obstacles that shaped every decision we made in rebuilding this platform.
Modernizing Live Software Without Downtime
Perform Zone's platform has been serving paying recruitment agencies and employers for more than 10 years. Migrating to new technology meant upgrading core systems without disrupting daily hiring workflows already in production.
Sustaining Long-Term Development Velocity
A single project sprint would not solve Perform Zone's needs. The client required a development team that could maintain consistent feature delivery across a 16-month engagement, not a short-term fix.
Balancing New Features With Platform Stability
Every new feature request needed to be built on top of a decade-old codebase without introducing instability into a platform actively used by recruitment agencies and employers.
Expanding Scope Into Training Delivery
Perform Zone needed its platform to grow beyond recruitment software alone, adding a scalable foundation for both online and face-to-face training programs.
Our solutions
Each solution addresses a specific pain point while contributing to a unified, future-proof platform, from infrastructure to mobile to AI, every layer rebuilt with scale, security, and speed in mind.
Dedicated PHP Laravel and React Development Team
InApps IT staff augmentation engineers worked directly inside Perform Zone's existing codebase, modernizing legacy PHP components and rebuilding key interfaces in React.
Embedded, Long-Term Engineering Support
Rather than a fixed-scope project, InApps provided ongoing developer capacity that adapted to Perform Zone's priorities across the full 16-month engagement.
Incremental, Low-Risk Feature Delivery
New functionality was shipped incrementally on AWS infrastructure, reducing the risk of disrupting live recruitment workflows already in use by agencies and employers.
Scalable Foundation for Training Programs
The team helped extend the platform to support online and face-to-face training delivery, broadening Perform Zone's product beyond recruitment software alone.
Technology stack
Leveraging high-expertise engineering and battle-tested technologies, the InApps team delivered a scalable, production-ready solution built for long-term growth.
React
Laravel, PHP
AWS ECS
The experts behind it
Every successful delivery starts with the right people. InApps assembled a dedicated, cross-functional team structured for speed, accountability, and long-term partnership.
Project Manager
Owns delivery timeline, stakeholder communication, and migration milestones.
Solution Architect
Leads the technology migration strategy for the legacy platform.
Backend Engineers
Migrate and extend the core recruitment platform logic.
Frontend Engineers
Rebuild the client-facing experience on the new stack.
DevOps Engineer
Manages infrastructure migration with zero downtime.
QA Engineer
Validates platform stability throughout the decade-old system's modernization.
What we delivered
Key outcomes
- Improved recruitment efficiency with a more intuitive, automated hiring workflow
- Enhanced platform performance, helping employers manage candidates faster
- Delivered a scalable foundation for both online and face-to-face training programs
- Strengthened long-term collaboration through continuous feature delivery over 16 months
- Modernized a recruitment platform that had been in production for more than a decade, without disrupting live operations
A 22-member team, 18 months of continuous releases, and zero loss of platform stability across web, iOS, and Android, that's what "scaled right" looks like.
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