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Backend

Hire Backend Engineers

APIs, data and the parts that must not fail.

The backend is where correctness is decided. An invoice that disagrees with a booking, a permission check that silently passes, a queue that marks a lost message as delivered — none of these announce themselves. They are discovered weeks later, in the accounts.

That shapes what we look for: people who model the domain before reaching for a framework, who treat money and permissions as things that must be provably right rather than probably right, and who have carried a system they wrote.

What to look for when hiring

A good question is what they would do about a duplicate webhook arriving four hundred milliseconds after the first. The answer tells you whether they have run something in production.

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