Hire — Backend
APIs that hold up under real traffic.
Backend engineers who design and ship APIs and data models meant to survive production, not just pass a demo. Whether you need one senior engineer inside your team or a small batch to own a service end to end, they're introduced by name and by their work before anything is signed.
What a typical backend engagement looks like
- —A senior engineer (or two) joins your repo and your on-call rotation, working your stack
- —Or a scoped service — an API, a data pipeline, an integration — owned start to finish
- —Schema and API design reviewed for the traffic and query patterns you actually have, not generic best practice
- —Written notes on trade-offs made, not just merged code with no record of why
Stack considerations
- —Node and Python are our most common backend stacks — we can also work inside an existing Go, Ruby or Java service if that's what you run
- —Postgres as a default data store, with the schema decisions that matter more once you're past the prototype
- —Sync and conflict handling if any client is offline-first (mobile, edge devices)
- —Rate limiting, auth and the boring reliability work that doesn't show up in a feature demo but shows up in an incident
Questions people ask.
Node and Postgres most often — it's the combination our backend hires are evaluated against — but engineers join whatever stack your service already runs rather than pushing a rewrite. Tell us your stack on the call and we'll tell you honestly whether it's a fit.
Both, depending on the engagement. Contract seats work inside specs your team owns; Consult engagements start with us reviewing or designing the schema and API surface first, with trade-offs written down, not just decided in a meeting no one wrote up.
Yes — that's a common reason teams reach for a contract seat rather than a full hire. The two-week trial still applies; it's short enough not to slow down something urgent.