Back-end development:
the engine room, built to last.

Backend web development is the part of your application users never see: the data model, the application APIs, authentication and the background jobs. We size it to your actual load and build security in from the first sprint. Connecting to other systems, such as CRMs, ERPs and payments, is covered on our API and integrations page.

Probably not, and no honest engineering partner opens with them. Microservices trade code complexity for operational complexity: more deployment surfaces, more failure modes, more infrastructure to staff. That trade pays off at organisational scales most businesses never reach. Our default recommendation is a well-structured monolith (one application, cleanly organised inside), which one team can operate and which can be split later along those boundaries if the evidence ever demands it. If we think you genuinely need services, we'll argue it in writing, from your numbers rather than from fashion.

The stacks most production systems actually run: Node.js and TypeScript, PHP with Laravel, and Python for data-shaped work, on PostgreSQL or MySQL, deployed to the major clouds. The choice is argued from your constraints: what your team can operate and hire for, what you already run. Our bias is deliberately boring: proven tools with deep talent pools beat fashionable ones your next hire has never seen. Where we lack genuine senior depth in a technology, we say so and point you elsewhere rather than learn on your budget.

As an engineering practice, applied continuously, not a certificate bought at the end. Concretely: authentication built on proven libraries, least-privilege access to data and infrastructure, secrets kept out of the codebase, dependencies scanned in CI, OWASP risks treated as explicit review criteria on every merge, and personal data handled to the standard of the regulations that apply to you, such as GDPR. What we won't do is promise 'unhackable' or wave a compliance badge at you. If you need a formal audit or penetration test, we build to make it pass, and work alongside the assessors.

Yes, rescue and takeover work is a steady share of back-end engagements. It starts with a plain audit, not a rewrite pitch: we map the data model, the deployment path and the genuinely risky corners. Then we stabilise before we extend: tests around the critical paths, secrets rotated, backups verified. Most inherited systems are better than the team that inherited them fears, and incremental improvement usually beats the big rewrite that stalls features for a year. When a rewrite genuinely is cheaper, we show the reasoning and let you make the call.

Your materials, data and accounts remain yours. Agreed ownership rights in bespoke deliverables transfer under the engagement terms and applicable payment; third-party software and assets keep their licences. We do not withhold customer-owned data or accounts over a payment dispute. Schema documentation, architecture notes and runbooks are maintained as we build, and credentials live in your vault, not ours. If you leave, you take a system your own team can run; open-source dependencies keep their standard licences, documented in handover.

Yes. Many partner agencies use us as their backend development agency, with the work shipped under their brand: your project tools, your client calls, our engineers behind the scenes. It's NDA-backed. We do not approach the clients you introduce to us for direct business. That protection runs through the work and for twelve months after the last assignment for that client ends, and it is written into the agreement.