Reasoning on paper
You get the options we weighed and why we chose one, so you can challenge any decision.
Backend engineering
Backend engineering that grows when your revenue does
We design, fix, and scale the server side of your product. Every decision comes with written reasoning, so you never pay for complexity your business doesn't need yet.
30 minutes with a senior engineer. You get a written summary of what we'd fix first, whether or not you work with us.
Sound familiar?
- 01
Every release feels risky, so you ship less often than you'd like.
- 02
The cloud bill grows faster than revenue, and nobody can explain which line item is to blame.
- 03
The database was fast a year ago. Now some pages take seconds to load.
- 04
Someone recommended microservices, and now four developers maintain twelve repositories.
- 05
Only one engineer understands the old system, and they're always busy.
- 06
Leadership wants AI features, but your backend can't give agents safe access to your data.
If two or more of these apply, the problems are probably connected. Backend issues rarely stay in one layer.
The cost of waiting
Waiting makes each of these more expensive
A slow query gets slower every month as data grows. An exposed secret stays exposed until someone finds it. A usage-based cloud bill rises with every new user, including the ones who never pay. The longer these problems sit, the more each fix costs.
Where to begin
Find your starting point
If this is your biggest pain
Start here
- Too much complexity, or one tangled codebaseCodebase & Architecture
- Slow queries, a growing database, risky schema changesDatabases
- Traffic spikes, high message volume, a cloud bill out of controlScaling & Infrastructure Cost
- Manual, risky, or slow releasesCI/CD
- Old code, no docs, hardcoded secretsLegacy Modernization
- You want AI agents working with your systemsAI-Ready Backend
- You want a codebase any developer can pick upEngineering Standards
Not sure? Book the free review and we'll tell you where to start.
Our approach
How we decide what you need
Most backend trouble we're called in to fix started as a reasonable decision made without enough context. A startup copies the architecture of a company a hundred times its size. A team picks a database because it's the one they know. A managed cloud service looks cheap until a campaign triples the traffic.
We start from your product: how much data you'll hold, how your traffic behaves, how big your team is, and what you can afford to maintain. The architecture follows from those answers.
Sometimes our advice is to build less than you planned. A well-structured monolith on a few self-hosted servers will carry many products a long way, and we'll tell you so even when a bigger project would pay us more.
Before and after
Before
After
- Before: Releases are manual and happen late at night
- After: Every merge is tested and deployed by a pipeline, with one-step rollback
- Before: Nobody knows why the system is built this way
- After: Every major decision is recorded with its reasoning
- Before: The cloud bill is a monthly surprise
- After: Costs are forecast, capped, and monitored
- Before: Knowledge lives in one engineer's head
- After: The codebase follows one documented structure that anyone can learn
- Before: AI features are a slide in a deck
- After: Agents connect to your systems through MCP, with permissions you control
Process
How an engagement works
- 1
Free review
A 30-minute call and a written summary of what we'd fix first.
- 2
Assessment
We go through your code, database, infrastructure, and release process, and you get a written report with options and costs.
- 3
Plan
Before anyone writes code, we agree on the architecture and the order of work.
- 4
Build with your team
Every change is reviewed against the architecture, and every shortcut is recorded as technical debt.
- 5
Handover
Documentation and runbooks your team, and your AI coding tools, can work from without us.
You can stop after step 2 and keep the report.
Why Edgerunners
What makes us different
Cost is a design input
Build cost, maintenance cost, and monthly infrastructure cost are part of every recommendation.
You keep ownership
We work next to your team, and your people understand the system when we leave.
Want proof before a call? Request a sample of our architecture documentation
FAQ
Questions teams ask before hiring us
01Do we have to replace our developers?
No. Most of our work happens alongside your team. We can advise, build with them, or take over specific parts.
02Will you push us toward microservices or AWS?
Only if your product needs it. We often recommend a simpler setup, and the written reasoning lets you check our logic.
03Our system is half-built by another vendor. Can you pick it up?
Yes. We start with an assessment of what exists and fix the riskiest parts first.
Next step
Find out what your backend needs before it costs you
Book a 30-minute review with a senior engineer. You'll leave with a written summary of what to fix first.