Service guide
Backend Engineering
Focused backend capabilities that fit your existing product.
A new integration or API should not force your team to put the product roadmap on hold. We scope a discrete capability, work within your existing architecture, and hand over tested code and operating instructions.
What a project can look like
Practical work, defined together.
Illustrative engagement examples. Each project is scoped to your systems and requirements.
An API your product needs
Implement an agreed set of endpoints, validation, error handling, and automated tests.
A third-party integration
Connect an external service with explicit handling for authentication, failures, retries, and provider limits.
Background processing
Move suitable work out of the request path, with a defined approach to job status, retries, and failure recovery.
What you take away
Built for your team to own.
We define interfaces, expected behavior, external dependencies, test coverage, and deployment responsibilities together. Performance work starts with a measurable problem and an agreed workload.
- Implemented API or integration
- Automated tests
- Deployment instructions
- Technical documentation
A little less jargon
Backend Engineering glossary
Useful terms you may encounter when discussing a project.
- API
- An application programming interface: an agreed way for software components to request data or actions from one another.
- Endpoint
- A specific address and operation exposed by an API, such as a request to retrieve an order.
- Webhook
- An HTTP request sent by one system to notify another that an event happened. Receivers should verify authenticity and handle repeated delivery.
- Background job
- Work performed outside an immediate user request, such as generating a report or processing an uploaded file.
- Idempotency
- Designing an operation so repeating the same request does not create additional unintended effects, such as duplicate orders.
- Rate limit
- A restriction on how many operations a caller can perform during a given period, often used to protect capacity or enforce provider quotas.