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Engineers who design APIs and data models you will not have to throw away in two years.

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  • Pre-vetted senior engineers
  • Distributed-systems experience
  • Boring-tech-first attitude
  • Onboarding within 5 business days

About this role

Backend engineers we place.

Backend engineers earn their pay during the second year — when the product has scale, the schema has scars, and someone has to keep the lights on. We hire and place engineers who think about that day on day one.

Skills & expertise

What our backend engineers cover.

  • 01

    API design

    REST with OpenAPI, GraphQL, tRPC, gRPC. Versioning that does not break clients, idempotency keys that work, error formats that help.

  • 02

    Data modelling

    Schema design, normalisation versus denormalisation deliberately, indexing for the actual query patterns. Migrations that do not block writes.

  • 03

    Async & queues

    Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, SQS. Outbox pattern, dead-letter queues, idempotent consumers. Eventual consistency that works.

  • 04

    Performance & scale

    Caching strategies, query optimisation, connection pooling, read replicas, sharding when needed and not before.

  • 05

    Languages

    Node.js / TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust. We pick the language for the workload, not for the team CV.

  • 06

    Reliability

    Circuit breakers, retries with backoff, graceful degradation, blue-green deploys. SLOs that mean something.

Hiring models

Three ways to engage a backend engineer.

  • Most popular

    Dedicated developer

    A senior engineer working 40 hours a week as part of your team. Daily standups, your tools, your timezone overlap.

    • Full-time on your engagement
    • Direct Slack / standup integration
    • Monthly billing on time-and-materials
    • Replacement guarantee in first two weeks
    Hire dedicated

  • Part-time / hourly

    Specialist depth on demand for short-cycle work — audits, spikes, code review, migration plans. Minimum 20 hours per month.

    • 20–80 hours per month
    • Hourly logging with weekly summary
    • Same vetting as dedicated engineers
    • Stop or scale up at any month boundary
    Hire part-time

  • Fixed-scope project

    Bounded engagement with a defined deliverable, milestone billing, and a clear exit. Best when scope is stable and timeline matters.

    • Fixed-scope SOW with milestones
    • Milestone-based billing
    • Includes hypercare on launch
    • Ideal for MVPs and audits
    Scope a project

What sets us apart

Why hire from Diglogic.

  • Senior engineers, no exceptions

    Median 8 years. Distributed systems built and operated.

  • Boring tech where it matters

    PostgreSQL outlives most NoSQL fads. We choose tools that will still be here in five years.

  • Performance audited

    Load tests are part of the build, not a quarterly fire drill.

  • Same engineer end-to-end

    No agency swaps.

  • Time-zone fit

    4+ hours daily overlap.

  • Replacement guarantee

    Two-week trial.

Tech stack

Tools they reach for.

  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Go
  • Rust
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • gRPC
  • OpenAPI
  • OpenTelemetry

Hiring process

Brief to first commit.

  1. 01

    Tell us the role

    Share the spec — required experience, stack, time-zone overlap, deadline. Ten minutes on a call or a written brief.

  2. 02

    CVs in 48 hours

    We send 2–4 pre-vetted CVs from engineers who actually fit, not just match keywords.

  3. 03

    You interview

    You run your own technical interview with the candidate. We facilitate; we do not edit.

  4. 04

    Onboard within 5 days

    Once you pick, the engineer is in your tools in five business days. Two-week trial period included.

FAQ

What teams ask before they hire.

Will an engineer work in our existing language even if it is not their default?
Yes — for languages they have shipped before. We will not place a Go engineer on a Rails codebase.
Can your engineers run database migrations on production data without downtime?
Yes. Online schema changes, dual-write windows, backfills with throttling. We have done these on multi-billion-row tables.
Do you handle event-driven re-architecture?
Yes. We have moved monoliths to event-driven over 6–12 months without halting feature work.

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Hire a backend engineer.

Send the role brief. We come back within 48 hours with 2–4 senior CVs that actually fit.

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