Backend engineering

The technology core that scales with your business

From domain modelling to production: we deliver secure, observable backend stacks ready for multi-cloud environments.

99.95%

Average uptime on platforms we operate

30%

Time-to-market improvement vs. internal benchmarks

24/7

Shared monitoring and incident response

Live architecture map

Observe the flow of your critical services

A stylised view of domain-aligned microservices, observability streams and automated policy gates working together.

  • Streaming lanes visualise throughput, retries and queue depth per service in real time.
  • Zero-trust gateways and secret rotations glow when policy checks succeed across environments.
  • SLO burn rates surface early so intervention stays ahead of incident time.
Domain billing SLO 99.9%
Events / min +18%

Clarity, predictability, measurable delivery

Architectural blueprints, contract-first APIs and automated environments keep your integrations running without disrupting the business.

Independent domains

DDD, event storming and clear contracts with business stakeholders.

Security & compliance

Centralised IAM, audit trails and policy-as-code embedded in the release flow.

Live snippet

Microservice orchestration sample

A simplified snippet showing how we combine APIs and asynchronous queues with built-in security.

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What we bring to the table

Cross-functional squads with technical product owners, solution architects, SREs and senior engineers.

Architecture

Microservices & domain-driven design

We define clean boundaries, orchestrate service mesh and manage API gateways.

  • Event storming and domain modelling
  • GraphQL/REST contract-first APIs
  • Service mesh, circuit breaking, rate limiting
Integration

Asynchronous messaging & AMQP

Resilient pipelines with RabbitMQ, Kafka and streaming to orchestrate mission-critical flows.

  • Event sourcing and CQRS
  • Schema registry and versioning
  • End-to-end flow monitoring
Reliability

SRE & self-healing platforms

Negotiated SLOs, incident playbooks and automated capacity for hybrid environments.

  • Infrastructure as code and GitOps
  • Proactive alerting and shared runbooks
  • Continuous chaos engineering and load testing

End-to-end approach

An iterative framework delivering visibility on effort, risk and value metrics.

01

Assessment & blueprint

We analyse the domain, define the target architecture and plan delivery streams.

Output: technical roadmap, initial backlog, migration plan.

02

Incremental delivery

We build independent microservices with automated testing, observability and security by design.

Output: continuous releases in GitOps-managed environments.

03

Run & evolve

Shared SRE, cost optimisation and data-driven continuous improvement.

Output: monthly reports, updated SLOs, evolutionary backlog.

Stack & accelerators

We select enterprise and open-source technologies with clear governance.

Cloud native

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenShift

Messaging

RabbitMQ, Kafka, Azure Service Bus

DevOps

Terraform, Pulumi, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions

Observability

Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry

Working on a complex backend initiative?

Book a complimentary assessment with our lead engineers.

Frequently asked questions

Questions about enterprise backend

Microservices, integrations and SRE: how we operate mission-critical systems.

Which backend architectures do you use?
Domain-driven microservices, event-driven architectures with AMQP/Kafka, REST and GraphQL APIs, CQRS where useful. We design zero-trust with defence in depth for regulated and multi-tenant systems.
Do you integrate with ERPs, CRMs and payment gateways?
Yes: we integrate with SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Stripe, Adyen, Nexi, SEPA/PSD2 banking rails and telemetry systems. We pay particular attention to idempotency, retries and end-to-end observability.
How do you handle migrations from legacy monoliths?
We use the strangler pattern: extract bounded contexts into microservices progressively with anti-corruption layers, Change Data Capture and controlled dual-write. Migrations run without stopping the business.
Do you provide observability and SRE on backend?
Every service ships with metrics, structured logs, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), explicit SLOs and runbooks. We configure alerting on error budgets rather than static thresholds, preventing incident burnout.