Stop renting risk.Start renting ateam.
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.
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.
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.
AWS infrastructure
Certified engineers. EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, IAM. Infrastructure as code, environments, secrets.
Serverless on Firebase & AWS
Built for one-to-million scale. Pay for usage, not capacity. Ideal for startups and unpredictable workloads.
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 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.
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.