Case Study: Engine maintains engineering speed and quality with Swarmia

How Engine maintains software development speed and quality while scaling the business

Engine is a business travel management platform that rapidly grew into an 800+ employee company with a 250+ person engineering organization. As it expanded beyond hotels into flights and rental cars, it needed better visibility into productivity, delivery speed, and developer experience without forcing teams to change their existing GitHub and Jira processes. Swarmia was introduced to help leaders, directors, and engineering managers understand engineering health while supporting different team workflows.

Swarmia connected directly to Engine’s existing tools and gave the company flexible, process-agnostic insights into contributors, merged pull requests, work in progress, and review bottlenecks, along with developer experience surveys. This helped Engine maintain speed and accountability during rapid hiring, including tracking productivity across more than 90 new hires in under six months. The company also used its platform-first approach to ship flights from concept to production in three months, then deliver rental car booking in the same calendar time with about one quarter of the engineering hours.

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Egan Royal

Senior Vice President