How Bilt's Marketing Engineering Team Delivers at Scale with Railway

Bilt, a nationwide loyalty program for renters, overcame challenges in balancing speed and infrastructure complexity by adopting Railway's developer-first platform, which allowed their marketing engineering team to efficiently handle rapid deployments and high-traffic events. Unlike traditional setups that often require complex infrastructure management and lengthy onboarding, Railway provided an environment where Bilt could deploy backend systems swiftly, significantly reducing deployment times from days to mere hours. This efficiency enabled the team to allocate 95% of their engineering time to feature development with zero-config deployments, resulting in seamless scaling to handle over 1,500 requests per second during peak times. The platform's pay-per-use model contributed to a 50% cost reduction compared to traditional cloud services, and Bilt's partnership with Railway was further strengthened by responsive support that fostered trust. The adoption not only streamlined operations but also offered a competitive edge by allowing engineers to focus on customer impact rather than infrastructure, demonstrating Railway's potential to enhance developer velocity across other teams at Bilt.