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Staff AugmentationBackend

Backend engineers.
Part of your team.

Extend your team with backend engineers who work within your architecture, standards and delivery process. Your team keeps product direction and priorities.

Discuss your backend needs

AI-assisted where appropriate. Engineer-reviewed.

YOUR PRODUCT / BACKEND WORKSPACE

API CONTRACTS · SERVICES · INTEGRATIONS

Build on what works.

API contracts

Clear inputs. Defined responses.

Request { body }
Response 200 OK

Services & integrations

Business logic. Connected systems.

Service
Your app
External system

FROM CONTEXT TO REVIEW

  1. Understand the system.
  2. Implement the agreed change.
  3. Review and test against your standards.

When this role fits

Where backend support
makes a difference.

01

Your roadmap needs more capacity.

Your team has the direction, but needs backend support to move agreed work forward.

02

Your services need to work together.

APIs, business rules and integrations need support as your product and its dependencies evolve.

03

Your codebase needs room to evolve.

New product work has to coexist with refactoring, existing behaviour and release constraints.

Backend capabilities

Work in the codebase
you already have.

Define the capability your team needs, then agree the role and scope. A framework name alone is not a role specification.

APIs and business logic

Implement agreed behaviour, validation and service interfaces within your existing architecture.

Services and integrations

Connect internal and external services, including error handling, retries and agreed interface contracts.

Data access and workflows

Work with data models, queries and background jobs while respecting existing data boundaries.

Quality in existing systems

Add tests, investigate performance and improve observability against the criteria agreed with your team.

TECHNOLOGIES WE WORK WITHPythonJava.NETGoKotlinPHPRuby

We match the engineer profile to your existing stack, the work ahead and the agreed scope. These technologies reflect capabilities across our team — not a checklist every engineer is expected to cover.

How we work with your team

Your roadmap.
Clear responsibilities.

Your team leads

  • Product direction, priorities and acceptance.
  • Technical standards and release decisions.
  • Day-to-day work in your existing process.

The Codest supports

  • Engineer selection against the agreed role.
  • Onboarding support and collaboration quality.
  • Feedback, continuity and agreed changes.

We agree the boundaries together. Adding an engineer does not transfer ownership of the whole product.

01 Define the roleShare the codebase, work ahead, skills and constraints.
02 Agree the fitReview the profile, working expectations and onboarding.
03 Join and reviewWork within your team and review the collaboration together.

AI in everyday engineering

AI-assisted.
Engineer-reviewed.

Example:CodexClaude Code

AI coding tools can support implementation, tests and refactoring where your policies allow. Engineers remain responsible for understanding the changes and checking them against your standards.

Client-approved tools

Agree which tools are permitted for the work. AI use is not a condition of cooperation.

Clear access boundaries

Agree what code and data may be used, and in which environment.

Review and testing

Check proposed changes before they enter the delivery process.

Context & constraintsAI-assisted workEngineer review & tests

Our clients & partners about us

All

E-commerce 2

Healthtech 1

IOT 1

Fintech & Banking 4

Other 8

E-commerce

I must admit that The Codest has been providing us with a qualified backend engineers team who did their job without any complaints. They have worked on launching a new platform on top of an existing e-commerce platform.

Giedrius Rimkus

Engineering Manager at Kesko Senukai Digital

Healthtech

They are honest, straightforward, and solution-oriented. The collaboration was fruitful as The Codest Ruby development team was able to produce a more optimized platform that increased sales and retention rates.

Peter Muntenau

CEO at Yogobe

IOT

The Codest produced high-quality deliverables and their React and Vue developers implemented an excellent work ethic. They’re effective communicators and transparent in their estimations. Professionalism and company culture are hallmarks of their work.

Jakub Krzych

CEO, Estimote Inc.

Inne

The Codest software development team has provided web development and migration services for an online forum and community. The work they’ve done has been great. I’ve worked with other companies from around the world and what makes The Codest stick out is that they’re professional and make themselves available all the time.

Julie Lacoppidan

Partner & Director, Min-Mave

Inne

The Codest’s developers made qualitative improvements to our software development process, showing great development skills. They were professional and proactive without being overly intrusive. They were also organized, available, and talented, providing the client with a positive experience.

Marco Iotti

CTO, CSO & Co-Founder, Mixfit Inc.

Fintech & Banking

The Codest software development team helped us on multiple projects. On the one side, they helped shape up and build a whole new service that makes our product process verifications faster. Additionally, they helped us with staffing our internal API team to maintain and support our clients.

Mathias Klenk

CTO at Passbase, Germany based startup

Fintech & Banking

We hired The Codest engineers to fill our need for web developers for our apps. Their developers communicated well and provided us with quality code.

Romain M.

Lead Developer, Fintech Company

Inne

The Codest is playing a vital role in our digital transformation projects. Their flexibility and adaptability in meeting our unique needs were not just impressive, but also genuinely beneficial, helping us navigate through numerous challenges and changes with ease and efficiency in our Adtech solution.

Marcin Siemko

IT Director, AMS – OOH advertising market leader in Poland

Inne

The Codest has been instrumental in our digital transformation at Pixie. Their flexible approach and commitment to our unique needs are second to none. Amidst a variety of digital hurdles, they’ve offered unparalleled support, their staff augmentation services being particularly notable, enriching our teams with specialised skills. Truly, The Codest has proven to be a fantastic partner in this endeavour.

Celso P.

Founder & CEO at Pixie

Inne

We discovered that we could cooperate with The Codest in a very good way – both when it comes to development and strategic business issues as our platfom was at its initial stage. So this is what happened and we have brought in goods ever since.

Thomas S.

Head of Platforms (acquired by Bonnier News)

E-commerce

The company described working with The Codest team as easy, as they were solid with their work and succeeded in accomplishing the expectations they set for the project. The company was most impressed with the team’s willingness to connect with them.

Edgaras Galkus

Head of Portfolio, NFQ

Inne

I’ve been impressed that The Codest can deliver high-quality developers within a reasonable amount of time. The Codest communicates well. However, once the developers are integrated into our team, I don’t have to talk to them as much. Our development teams follow sprint methodologies and we have weekly check-ins to discuss progress.

Jordi Piqueras Brunet

CTO, Helpling

Inne

The Codest’s network of developers has completed tasks with great execution and minimal bugs, leaving the client satisfied with the engagement. The team is easy to work with and handles work with utmost professionalism. They are intelligent, timely, and swift in providing the required staff.

Alexander Lazoff

CEO, Booster SEO

Inne

The Codest isn’t just another outsourcing firm – they bring real expertise and a deep understanding of both tech and business. Their senior experience and hands-on CTO support were key in building our scalable product.

Gustaf Strauss

Co-Founder, Bright

Fintech & Banking

We’d lost months waiting for resource allocation from a large vendor. The Codest assembled a team in weeks and took ownership of our backend refactor immediately. Their engineers were proactive, aligned with our compliance needs, and reduced release time by over 37%. We finally felt like a priority, not a ticket number.

CTO

UK-based FinTech Platform

Fintech & Banking

The company is most impressed with THE CODEST team’s motivation throughout the project which the company’s internal staff don’t see often with vendors. The team took it upon themselves to self-educate in their specific areas and the company is happy to work with them.

CTO of Finance Supply Chain Company

SupplierPlus

Before we start

Questions about
the working model.

Start with your team and the work. The right scope follows from that context.

Explore Staff Augmentation
Can engineers work with our existing stack?

The role is defined around your application, framework, standards and the work ahead. The engineer profile and scope are agreed before the engagement starts.

Can we work without AI coding tools?

Yes. AI use depends on your policy, security requirements and the agreed way of working.

What if we need a team to own a product area?

That may fit Product Development better than Staff Augmentation. We can discuss the responsibility model first.

Let’s define the role

Let’s discuss the
backend role you need.

Tell us about your application, your team and the capability you need. We’ll discuss the role, responsibilities and a practical next step.

Discuss your backend needs
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