6 – 20 weeks, From R92,000
Full-Stack Engineering
Front ends get the attention; back ends decide whether the product survives its second year. This is careful schema design, boring dependable APIs, and infrastructure you can reason about at two in the morning.
At a glance
- Timeline
- 6 – 20 weeks
- Investment
- From R92,000
- Engagement
- Phased delivery with milestone reviews
- Discipline
- Engineering
Exactly what lands in your hands.
Written into the contract, so there is never a debate at the end about what was in scope.
- 01Relational schema design with migrations under version control
- 02Typed REST or tRPC API with generated documentation
- 03Authentication, authorisation and role modelling
- 04Payments and third-party integrations
- 05Background jobs, queues and scheduled work
- 06Observability: structured logging, error tracking and alerts
Four phases, in this order, every time.
The sequence does not change. What changes is how long each phase runs and how much of it your team already has covered.
- 01
Model the domain
Entities, relationships and lifecycle states written down and agreed before the first migration runs.
- 02
Build the contract
A typed API surface shared between client and server, so a breaking change is a compile error rather than a production incident.
- 03
Prove it under load
Load and failure testing against realistic traffic shapes, including the spike you are worried about.
- 04
Instrument and hand over
Dashboards, alerting thresholds and a runbook, so your team knows what normal looks like.
- Marketplaces and platforms with real money moving through them
- Teams whose prototype is now carrying production traffic
- Products facing a predictable, punishing traffic spike
Not sure this is the one you need? Describe the problem instead of the solution and I will point you at the right shape, even when that is a different service.
About full-stack engineering.
Up to a point. I set up and document deployment, environments, backups and monitoring. For complex multi-region estates I work alongside your platform team rather than replacing them.
Yes, a two-week audit covering data model, API design, security posture, performance and cost, delivered as a prioritised written report.
Where this service produced something real.
ProductSino Tutor
A tutoring marketplace that matches learners with vetted tutors, handles scheduling, and settles payouts automatically.
CommerceMeridian Commerce
A headless storefront and operations console for a homeware brand shipping to eleven countries.
DashboardAtlas Fleet
A live operations console for a 240-vehicle fleet: routing, utilisation, maintenance and driver safety in one view.
Ready to talk about full-stack engineering?
6 – 20 weeks typically, from r92,000. Send me the details and you will have a scoped proposal (phases, hours and assumptions shown) within a few days.
- info@angelmaile.com
- Phone
- +27 (0) 71 000 0000
- Studio
- Studio 04, Bree Street, Cape Town
- Hours
- Mon – Fri, 08:30 – 17:30 · SAST (UTC+2)
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