Backend engineering
Distributed services, ledgers and transactional correctness, and extracting bounded contexts out of systems that cannot be switched off.
About — the team
One team across the stack, not six vendors in a trench coat.
The disciplines below sit in the same team, on the same roadmap, under the same engineering standard. Nobody hands your project across a contract boundary, because there isn't one.
Softrear staffs engagements as a single cross-disciplinary team covering backend, mobile, design, data and AI, site reliability and delivery, with every engineer named in the proposal and a stated senior-to-mid ratio held to for the life of the engagement.
Disciplines
Six disciplines. One roadmap.
Every engineer is named in your proposal before you sign.
Mobile engineering
Flutter and native iOS and Android, offline-first architectures, store release management, and performance on the hardware users actually carry.
Product design
Design systems that ship as code rather than as a file handover, and accessibility held to WCAG 2.2 AA in the component, not in the audit.
Data & AI
Pipelines, lineage and access control first; retrieval, extraction and evaluation harnesses second. The harness ships with the model.
Site reliability
Infrastructure as code, observability, on-call design and cloud cost — built so your team can hold the pager after we hand it over.
Delivery
Regulated delivery, audit evidence, and keeping one roadmap when four workstreams are running against it.
Before you sign anything
Ask us for a code sample or an architecture walkthrough.
From a comparable project, anonymised, no NDA required and no sales call attached. Almost nobody asks. It is the fastest way there is to find out whether a vendor is what they say they are — including us.
Ask for a walkthroughMinimum senior : mid ratio1 : 2
Named in the proposalEvery engineer
Your team in our repositoryFrom day one
Reviews on our pull requestsYours welcome
Tell us what’s stuck.
A senior engineer reads every one of these. If we’re not the right fit we’ll say so, and point you at someone who is.
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