Most products live or die on the parts nobody sees: the data model, the API, the integrations, the tests. We design and build those, from backend architecture to deployment, so the thing you ship can be used, maintained, and extended without a rewrite.
Why we are different.
Most software help arrives as a deck or a junior team that disappears at handoff. One of our founders builds production systems for a living: layered TypeScript backends, type-safe data access, real integrations, and the test coverage that keeps them honest. So we scope small, ship working software early, and write code your own engineers can read and own. We would rather hand you one service that runs cleanly for years than a prototype that needs a rescue the week after launch.
What we build.
Backend architecture.
Most of the cost of software shows up later, in the part you cannot see on day one. We design backends in clear layers, routes, controllers, services, and data access, so logic lives where you can find it and changes stay contained. The goal is a system your team can reason about a year from now, not a clever knot only its author understands.
Data models and APIs.
The schema is the product’s spine, and getting it wrong is expensive to undo. We design Postgres data models and the APIs on top of them, REST, GraphQL, or oRPC, with type-safe access through Drizzle ORM and Zod so a bad shape fails at the boundary instead of in production. Clean contracts mean the frontend and any future integration can trust what they receive.
Integrations.
Real products rarely stand alone. They talk to payment systems, CMSs, auth providers, queues, and a stack of third-party APIs that each fail in their own way. We build the connective tissue, ingestion, normalization, retries, and reconciliation, so data moves correctly between systems and stays correct when one of them has a bad day.
Full-stack delivery.
When the work reaches the surface, we carry it there. React and Next.js interfaces, dashboards, admin tools, and authenticated flows, wired to the backend with TanStack Query and sensible state management. One team owning both ends means fewer seams, fewer handoff bugs, and an interface that actually matches what the API can do.
Testing and CI.
Software you intend to keep needs proof it still works. We write unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage with Vitest, Jest, and React Testing Library, then gate it behind CI so a regression is caught by a pipeline, not a customer. Tests are also documentation: they state what the system is supposed to do, in code that cannot drift out of date.
Deployment and reliability.
A build that only runs on your laptop is not finished. We containerize with Docker and deploy to Vercel, Railway, AWS, or GCP, with the observability, rate limits, and fallbacks that separate a demo from a dependable service. You should learn about a problem from a dashboard, not an angry email.
Popular software engineering requests we receive.
Project-based.
- Backend and API build
- Database schema design
- Third-party integration sprint
- Prototype to production buildout
- Test coverage and CI setup
Ongoing needs.
- Ongoing feature development
- Codebase modernization
- Reliability and observability work
- Advisory for in-house engineers
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