Backend Development Company

Backend development projects of any complexity for your company

Scalable, fault-tolerant, high-load solutions for e-commerce, retail, foodtech, fintech, healthtech, video streaming services, and other industries.

Why choose Surf for backend development

Since 2011 our company has built frontend and backend systems for web and mobile products for global enterprises and high-growth startups and have earned recognition from the global community.

6th

Top Web developers in USA by Clutch

15th

Top USA Developers 2023 by Business of Apps

4th

Top USA Web Developers for Financial Services by Clutch

When you need the Surf backend team

As a back end development company we collaborate mostly with the clients with businesses built around IT products. They look for a dedicated team that will not only deliver a quality website or app but transfer the project competencies and knowledge to their in-house teams.

Your company plans to develop a product from scratch & on a turnkey basis but lacks resources/expertise.

You need to set up your backend production processes in line with the best industry practices.

You need to scale the product due to business growth, ensuring stability for increased customers or a larger SKU count.

Find out what tasks we can solve

We believe that great results are possible only with strongly structured processes. Therefore, when solving the tasks of your business, we start with planning: setting crucial goals and achieving them step-by-step. As a result, you will get the product you expected — and a bit more.

Architecture

– drivers and goals of the system: ArchiMate Motivation View/Goals View

– standard notations: UML, BPMN, ArchiMate, C4 Model

– top-down design

– complex scenarios

– adapting sections to client’s requirements
Product development

– full development cycle from pre-development to support

– solutions of any complexity, from high-load services to ERP systems

– comprehensive documentation

– seamless transfer to in-house team
DevOps

– setting up CI/CD pipeline

– setting up observability and incident management

– automating deploy to speed up Time To Market

– increasing stability to 99,99%

Our case studies

The average duration of the Surf-Client collaboration is 3 years and our team is a good fit if you look for a partner to develop a complex back end system, from designing your digital product architecture to its implementation, testing, and launching.

Need a reliable team to build a complex high-load solution?

Technology stack we use

We are not limited to specific technologies — and focus on the needs of the clients and saving their resources.
For example, for a video streaming service we chose Kotlin, Spring Boot and Kubernetes — as a modern tech stack that fits the project goals. Our company has universal expertise and strong Middle and Senior developers ready to join your projects.

Programming languages

Python

Java

Kotlin

Frameworks and libraries

Spring boot

Hibernate

Flyway

Gin

Databases & DevOps

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Clickhouse

Elasticsearch

Redis

MemcacheDB

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

GitLab/Jenkins

Ansible

Terraform

Helm

Zabbix

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK/EFK

API and integration tools

RESTful API

GraphQL

gRPC

Swagger

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Our backend team workflow

Our company strives to be transparent for our clients. Our PM holds regular online meetings to keep the client informed about the project progress and eventual risks
We follow the roadmap agreed upon — and promptly respond to any changes in business requirements.

Preparation
- preparing project roadmap, defining goals and objectives
- building architecture, analyzing necessary integrations
- going through business risks and user scenarios
Development
- coding with Kotlin, Java, Python, and Go
- setting up data processing with most appropriate database technologies (choosing from SQL or NoSQL, in-memory or disk storage, etc.)
- visualizing services health & status with Prometheus and Grafana
External systems integrations
- analysis: defining list of integrations to be made, their capabilities, and trade off solutions
- development: integration protocol study and implementing integrations
Testing
- setting up test environment and perform backend stress testing
- writing automated tests
- performing manual tests for the most critical cases
Launch and support
- assisting with the workflow setup for further product evolvement
- transferring project and documents to the in-house team
- supporting the product under SLA

Our clients’ reviews

Testimonials

We have experience in backend development for large-scale projects for market leaders

“Surf has developed a great mobile app for us. It has significantly improved the quality of service for our premium customers. Customers can now manage deliveries and resolve support issues right in the mobile app. Thanks to this, the average bill and LTV increased and new customers came.”

Nikita Petrov

Product Manager

“Surf has provided us with a video streaming service, giving our users access to more than 40 shows. We have implemented many additional features for users. The mobile app is developed with the Flutter framework. This helped us shorten the time to market and launch the product as quickly as possible. With its help, it was possible to reduce the development time by 30%. Surf has developed a platform with all the infrastructure: backend, CDN, and admin web interface to help manage content and monitor statistics.”

Roman Kolesnikov

Producer

“What I liked most about Surf was that it was not too lazy to make a demo from layouts and offered us a reasonable price. We did a really great job as a single product team.”

Andrew Davydow

Head of Mobile

Check for more insights

Having implemented many different-purposes solutions – to digitize processes with easy-to-use dashboards and automatically generated schedules or to create new channels for businesses to communicate with their customers – we are glad to share the acquired experience and insights on our blog.