Software Development

Backends and APIs your products can rely on

Well-structured services, integrations, and data models that are secure, documented, and straightforward to extend.

A good fit if

  • Your web and mobile apps need a shared, reliable API
  • Third-party integrations keep breaking
  • Your database has grown messy or slow
  • You want to open your platform to partners

Business problems

Problems we solve

  • Unclear, inconsistent APIs

    We design consistent, versioned APIs with documentation your front-end team and partners can rely on.

  • Brittle integrations

    Retries, idempotency, and monitoring help keep third-party outages from corrupting your data.

  • Data models that fight you

    We restructure schemas and queries for clarity and performance, with safe, reversible migrations.

  • Security gaps

    Authentication, authorisation, input validation, and secrets management are handled deliberately.

Scope & deliverables

What we can deliver

The parts of your product users never see, but always depend on. Typical backend deliverables include:

  • API design (REST or GraphQL)
  • Database schema design and migrations
  • Authentication and authorisation
  • Third-party and payment integrations
  • Background jobs and queues
  • API documentation
  • Automated tests and CI pipelines
  • Logging, metrics, and alerting

Our approach

How we design and build backends

  1. 01

    Understand the domain

    We model your data and business rules before designing endpoints.

  2. 02

    Design the contract

    We agree on API shapes and documentation early so front-end work can start in parallel.

  3. 03

    Build & test

    We implement with automated tests, code review, and a staging environment.

  4. 04

    Operate & observe

    Logging, monitoring, and alerting make issues visible quickly.

Technology

Tools and capabilities

We choose tools to suit your project, team, and existing systems. These are typical options, not a fixed stack.

Languages & frameworks

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • Python
  • Django
  • Laravel
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Phoenix (Elixir)

APIs

  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • Webhooks
  • OpenAPI

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Firebase
  • Message queues

Infrastructure

  • Docker
  • AWS
  • CI/CD pipelines

Start a project

Need a backend you can build on?

Tell us about your product, data, and integrations. We'll talk through architecture options and trade-offs.