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Backend & API Engineering

APIs, databases, authentication, integrations and background processing. We design schemas that survive the features you have not thought of yet, and APIs your own developers can use without reading the source.

Schema decisions outlive everything else

Interfaces get redesigned. Frameworks get replaced. The database schema tends to outlast both, because changing it means migrating data that people depend on. We spend real time on it up front - modelling the domain as it actually behaves rather than as the first screen implied.

APIs designed for the people calling them

An API is a user interface whose users happen to be developers. Consistent naming, predictable errors, honest status codes, pagination that works the same way everywhere, and documentation generated from the code so it cannot drift out of date.

Operable from day one

  • Structured logs with request correlation, so an incident is traceable rather than guessable.
  • Health checks and readiness probes wired for whatever runs the container.
  • Migrations that are reviewed and reversible, never applied implicitly against live data.
  • Secrets in the environment, never in the repository.

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