Back-end Development.
APIs, workers, and databases that hold up.
Backends that are boring to operate — the highest compliment a system can earn.
What it is
The best backend is the one your on-call rota forgets exists.
Back-end Development is the plumbing that makes everything else look easy — APIs, workers, databases, queues, cron, and the observability that keeps them honest at 3am.
We build for the long tail — the retries, the poison-message handling, the graceful degradation, the migration story, the audit trail. Nothing bleeding-edge; everything durable.
Handed over with performance budgets, alerting playbooks, and a runbook per component. Your team can be on-call for it on day one.
What you get
6 concrete things, on the SOW.
Every deliverable is written into the statement of work — priced, dated, and signed off by a named engineer at the relevant gate.
- 01Production APIs, workers, and jobs
- 02Database schema + migration tooling
- 03Queue & retry infrastructure
- 04Observability: logs, metrics, traces, alerts
- 05Load-tested with regression baselines
- 06Runbooks per service, on-call playbook
Where this shows up
Three shapes of engagement.
Different problems, same method. These are the concrete work shapes we typically deliver under Back-end Development.
Product backend
The APIs and workers behind a web or mobile product.
Data pipelines
Batch or streaming pipelines with SLAs and observability.
Integration hub
A service layer that consolidates access to 5+ third-party systems.
The stack
Capabilities, not vendors.
The requirement picks the tool, not the other way round. Naming vendors up front would set the wrong ceiling on what we take on.
- APIs (REST/GraphQL)
- Workers & queues
- Databases
- Observability
- Load testing
- On-call tooling
How it runs
Seven stages. One signature at a time.
Every Back-end Development engagement runs through the same seven-gate Aivora Delivery Engine — each stage run by specialised agents, each ending at a gate a senior engineer must sign.
Frequently asked
Questions people ask before booking.
What language / framework?
Whichever fits: Node/TypeScript, Python, Go, or JVM. We pick for team fit and problem shape, not fashion.
How do you handle scaling?
Horizontal-first for stateless services, careful for stateful. Scaling limits are load-tested and documented at the architecture gate.
Who's on-call after handover?
Your team, with our runbooks. Optional retainer or forward-deployed engineer covers the first 90 days if you want a buffer.
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Bring us the hard bit.
Ninety-minute kickoff. Five-day audit. Fixed quote for Back-end Development — in writing, before we build.