Stop renting risk.Start renting ateam.
We take over backend engineering for companies that need a proper software organisation behind the work. APIs, data platforms, integrations, infrastructure, releases and DevOps. Nearly two decades of formal delivery, senior review on every change, and cover that does not vanish on leave.
Bring your stack and headcount.
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.
Keep who matters.
Hand us the rest.
Keep your product-critical people. Hand us the rest. You keep the people who know the product and the domain. We take on the engineering load that does not need to sit on your payroll.
You keep ownership of the product and the people who know the domain. We provide the engineering organisation behind it: architects and seniors, platform and DevOps, QA, documented process, and cover that does not vanish on leave. The same structure we use for institutional and multi-billion-dollar estates.
Structure. That is
the product.
Your dedicated developers are not freelancers on a ticket queue. They sit inside a full software delivery organisation: engineers across services, data and integrations; seniors who set standards; architecture when the estate needs it; DevOps and platform; and QA with a defined release process. A hard problem escalates in minutes to people who have carried similar systems before, rather than burning days alone. Code is reviewed. Releases are controlled. Everything is tracked in Jira, and you have full visibility of the work.
This is how we have shipped and maintained software for nearly two decades. There is a training pipeline behind the bench, so capacity is not a lucky hire. Scaling an account from two engineers to four typically takes one to two months, and the new people inherit project knowledge from the team rather than starting cold, often the same time a new internal hire needs simply to learn the codebase.
What we carry is backend engineering in the round: APIs and services, data platforms, third-party integrations, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, security and reliability, performance at scale, and the line-of-business and legacy systems that still run the company. Multi-cloud and modern serverless estates are day-to-day work for us, not a side specialty. The point is not a short list of technologies. It is a software company that can own your backend end to end, with the depth to grow with you.
Employment versus
a delivery team.
Building the same cover yourself means salaries, on-costs, recruitment, leave gaps and ramp-up for developers, seniors and platform. With us, that structure is already in place. The commercial outcome is straightforward: cheaper than employing the same organisation yourself, without a public rate card that pretends every estate is the same.
How taking over
works.
Discovery
2–4 weeksArchitecture, 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.
Parallel running
2–4 weeksWe shadow, then carry, typically inside two to four weeks. Your current team or contractors wind down on your schedule, not ours.
Steady state
OngoingDedicated 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.
APIs and integrations
Internal and third-party. Auth, rate limits, retries, idempotency. The unglamorous plumbing that everything depends on.
Databases and data models
Relational, document, time-series. Schema design, indexing, migrations, replication, backups that actually restore.
Cloud infrastructure
AWS and multi-cloud estates. Compute, containers, serverless, data stores, edge, IAM. Infrastructure as code, environments, secrets.
Platform & DevOps
Pipelines, observability, scaling patterns and runbooks for estates that must stay up. From first release to high-traffic production.
CI/CD pipelines
Bitbucket, GitHub, or custom scripts. Environments, versioning, secure branch management, pull-request review on every change.
Source control
Secure branch management with pull-request review on every change. Your repositories, your permissions, your audit trail.
Monitoring & alerts
Downtime alerts, performance metrics, log aggregation. We see problems before your users do.
CDN and Cloudflare
Edge caching, WAF, DDoS protection, image optimisation. Performance and security at the edge.
Performance & scaling
Profiling, query and index work, caching, load testing. Behaviour you have measured rather than hoped about.
Security hardening
Patch management, dependency scanning, secrets rotation, attack-surface reduction. Defence in depth.
Upgrades & migrations
Framework versions, language runtimes, database engines, cloud provider moves. Planned, tested, reversible.
ERP, CRM & legacy
Functional experts on ERP and CRM work. Legacy systems others are reluctant to touch. We document, then carry.
Tested, reviewed,
reported.
Nothing reaches production on a single person’s approval. Every change goes through pull-request review and a dedicated QA practice, with a QA lead, testers and automated testing, following a defined process with clear roles and permissions in Jira. That is how a software company ships when the work has to hold under real scrutiny. You receive a written report every week, so you always know exactly where your engineering stands.
The questions you
were going to ask.
Give your backend
a senior bench.
Thirty minutes. Bring your stack and your headcount, and we will show you what a proper delivery organisation looks like against employing the same cover yourself.