Scaling the Payment Infrastructure of the Gig Economy
Gigpay is a global payment platform designed to meet the financial needs of freelancers, creators, and gig workers around the world.
After a series of unsuccessful engagements with other technology providers, the company partnered with Luby to ensure product stability, accelerate development, and enable global scalability.
The collaboration evolved from crisis recovery to strategic co-creation — rebuilding Gigpay's foundation to support international expansion and a more resilient payments ecosystem.
The Challenge
Gigpay had experienced several challenges in previous development attempts that resulted in instability, missed deadlines, and performance issues. The product — essential to facilitating payouts for freelancers and gig economy professionals — needed to be completely restructured to support a global audience.
The company sought a partner capable of:
- Stabilizing the existing platform
- Delivering high-quality code rapidly
- Building new integrations for international payments
- Implementing a scalable backend for future growth
Luby was brought in as a trusted engineering partner, with the flexibility and expertise to rebuild the project while keeping operations running.
Our Approach
Luby's engagement was structured in three strategic phases — ensuring both short-term recovery and long-term scalability.
Transition & Stabilization
Upon joining the project, Luby conducted a comprehensive audit of Gigpay's architecture and codebase. We identified and corrected performance bottlenecks, database issues, and deployment failures that were hindering stability.
Outcome:
A fully functional environment, operational stability, and a reliable delivery pipeline.
Engineering Firepower & Backend Strengthening
After stabilizing the system, Luby deployed dedicated senior engineers specialized in fintech, APIs, and payments infrastructure. These professionals reinforced the backend and introduced a modular architecture with clear documentation and optimized testing pipelines.
This structure allowed Gigpay to handle higher transaction volumes and integrate new financial partners without downtime.
Global Expansion & Offramps
With a solid platform, Gigpay was ready to scale internationally. Luby supported the implementation of offramps — enabling payments in key global markets.
Regions covered:
Each offramp integration was developed to comply with local regulations and banking systems, ensuring secure, compliant global operations.
Infrastructure & Integrations
Luby's team also restructured Gigpay's deployment architecture to improve performance, monitoring, and reliability.
Microservices Architecture
For modular scalability
CI/CD Pipelines
For faster releases
Cloud Infrastructure
With secure APIs and observability
These changes gave Gigpay the agility to launch new features and regional integrations with confidence and speed.
Results
Key Outcomes of This Strategic Partnership:
Platform Recovery & Stabilization
Recovered and stabilized Gigpay's core platform after previous failed development cycles
Strengthened Backend Architecture
Built for global scale and high transaction volumes
Global Offramps Implemented
Mexico, South Korea, and India integrations completed
Improved System Resilience
Reduced downtime and operational risk significantly
Enabled Global Market Entry
Gigpay's entry into new markets with a scalable and secure payment infrastructure is now fully operational.
Partnering with Luby changed the game for us. Their senior engineers not only stabilized our platform but helped us rebuild it into something truly global. We finally had a partner who could move fast, think strategically, and deliver quality code we could trust.
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