Switzerland's smartest property search
As Switzerland’s leading online real estate marketplace, Homegate.ch connects millions of users with properties each month, featuring over 90,000 listings and generating more than 200 million page views. With its extensive reach, Homegate is dedicated to enhancing its platform to deliver a seamless and reliable property search experience. It aims to meet the evolving needs of home seekers across Switzerland.
Jens Berndt
CTO
“InterVenture’s nearshoring model provided not only skilled engineers but also professionals who seamlessly integrated into our team, contributing as if they were right here with us. This reengineering journey allowed us to adopt cutting-edge technology and grow rapidly, ensuring our platform remains agile and responsive to user needs. The diversity in perspectives – from Switzerland to Serbia – has brought innovation and fresh approaches to solving challenges, enabling us to deliver a more robust and user-centered service to our customers. This collaboration has been essential to maintaining our market leadership and continuously enhancing the Homegate experience.”
The challenge.
Homegate’s traditional property search model required revisioning to align with evolving market demands despite its strong presence in the Swiss real estate landscape. With a focus on modernizing infrastructure and enhancing the user experience, Homegate sought a technology partner to drive a transformative shift towards an agile, resilient, and scalable platform. The main challenge was transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a microservices-based system fully hosted on AWS. This shift would boost scalability, shorten the time to market for new features, and enable Homegate to meet rising user expectations for personalization, efficient property searches, and data-driven recommendations. Additionally, it would create a robust foundation for future innovations, positioning Homegate at the forefront of digital real estate services in Switzerland.a
The solution.
Homegate selected InterVenture as a nearshoring partner to bring their ambitious reengineering vision to life. InterVenture assembled a dedicated team of engineers skilled in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS technologies such as Lambda and API Gateway. Together, they developed a microservices architecture allowing for independent deployment of each platform component, boosting both agility and resilience. To handle Homegate’s high traffic volume, a serverless AWS infrastructure was implemented, enabling rapid scaling without performance trade-offs. Additionally, the integration of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines, combined with a test-driven development (TDD) approach, ensured the team could update and refine the platform seamlessly.
Technologies in detail.
- JavaScript
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
The outcome.
The InterVenture Homegate Team:
- Delivered a microservices-based architecture with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js on AWS.
- Implemented serverless AWS infrastructure (including Lambda and API Gateway) to effectively manage high-volume traffic.
- Built CI/CD pipelines and adopted TDD practices, allowing for continuous, stable platform updates.
- Supported the transition to a scalable and agile platform, elevating the user experience across Switzerland.
- Created a flexible architecture for ongoing feature expansion and future innovations, reinforcing Homegate’s leadership in Switzerland’s digital real estate sector.
