Stop renting risk. Start renting a team.
We take over backend development for companies running their own engineers. APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure, releases. Every developer on your account is backed by senior engineers and AWS-qualified DevOps, at a fraction of employment cost.
The lonely backend developer.
Most companies with five or six developers have the same quiet problem. The backend is held up by one or two people. They are capable, but they work without backup. Their code goes unreviewed. There is no senior engineer to escalate to when something fails outside hours. And when they take leave, delivery effectively pauses with them.
Employing more seniors does not fix it. Senior engineers carry senior salaries, senior on-costs and senior notice periods, and they still take holidays.
Structure. That is the product.
Your dedicated developers sit inside a team that includes mid-tier engineers, senior engineers and DevOps. A developer with a question gets an answer in minutes, from someone who has solved it before, rather than losing days to it alone. Code is reviewed. Releases follow a defined process. Everything is tracked in Jira, and you have full visibility.
This is a delivery practice built over nearly two decades, with a training pipeline behind it. Scaling from two developers to four typically takes one to two months, and the new engineers inherit your project knowledge from the team rather than starting cold, which is often how long a new internal hire needs simply to learn the codebase.
The bench runs deep by discipline: Python, certified AWS DevOps, ERP and CRM functional experts, and serverless specialists who have built applications on Firebase and AWS that scale from one user to a million with no downtime. For a startup that last point matters twice over, because serverless means you pay for usage, not a fixed monthly rental for capacity you are not using yet.
What the same money buys.
| Employ in-house | Koneqt backend team | |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | A salary plus on-costs, recruitment fees and months of ramp-up | Four specialists for the cost of two employees |
| Senior engineer | A second, heavier salary | Included. Seniors oversee every account |
| DevOps | Another hire, another salary | Included. AWS-qualified engineers in the team |
| Leave, sickness | 28+ days each, leaving gaps to absorb | Covered by contract; the role is always staffed |
| Effective capacity | Reduced by leave, recruitment and ramp-up | Consistent through the year, cover included |
In effect, to match what one Koneqt seat carries behind it, you would need to employ the developer plus a share of a senior engineer and a share of DevOps. That combined bench is rarely affordable at the five-to-six-developer scale. We already maintain it.
How taking over works.
Architecture, codebase, environments, deployment, security posture. Two to four weeks for most estates. High-traffic or regulated systems get a structured assessment, because at that scale the cost of a mistake is high and warrants the extra rigour.
We shadow, then carry, typically inside two to four weeks. Your current team or contractors wind down on your schedule, not ours.
Dedicated developers, senior review, DevOps on the pipeline, Jira in the open. Upgrades, new features, releases, scaling. You run the product. We run the engineering.
One-off onboarding cost in the first two to three months while we learn your system. After that it never repeats, whoever joins your account.
What we carry.
Tested, reviewed, reported.
Nothing reaches production on a single person’s approval. Every change goes through pull-request review and a dedicated QA team, with a QA lead, testers and automated testing, following a defined process with clear roles and permissions in Jira. You receive a written report every week, so you always know exactly where your engineering stands.
The questions you were going to ask.
Common questions / 07It is a senior-led delivery practice. What distinguishes it from conventional offshoring is the structure: named people on your account, senior engineers reviewing the work, DevOps within the team, documented process, and continuity that does not depend on any one individual. You can assess it exactly as you would employees, by the work in your Jira board each week.
Yes, and often that is the right shape. Keep your product-critical people, hand us the rest. The pitch to a six-developer company is simple: move four to us, pay roughly what two cost you, keep the two who matter most.
You do. Your repositories, your infrastructure, your accounts. We work inside them.
Then we start with a proper discovery, not a promise. We work on estates at that scale today, and the one thing they teach you is respect for what is already running.
Less than the team it replaces, and we do not publish rates, because the comparison only means something against your own all-in numbers. Bring your team size and stack to a call. Typically the answer lands at four specialists for the cost of two employees, with seniors and DevOps included rather than hired separately.
Give your backend a senior bench.
Thirty minutes. Bring your stack and your headcount, and we will show you what the same budget buys when the structure is included.
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