Backend development services

Backend, the hidden server-side part of a software application. Managing data storage, processing requests, and handling application’s functionality. At Ralabs we develop those engines that power everything behind the scenes.

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OUR BACKEND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

Our backend developers provide invaluable support in your development project by leveraging their expertise to design and build robust, scalable, and efficient server-side infrastructure, ensuring seamless data management, integration with third-party services, and overall backend functionality.

Backend Refactoring

Refactoring offers a strategic approach to enhance software agility and manage risks. By understanding key requirements, Ralabs is able to develop a targeted strategy and roadmap, prioritizing critical areas. Utilizing methods like robotic process automation (RPA) or API integrations, we’re able to achieve efficient, minimal-disruption improvements. This approach spreads costs over the programme's lifetime, accelerating ROI, and allowing flexibility for emerging solutions. However, comprehensive refactoring is a gradual process.

Codebases expand regularly with new fixes or features, leading to complexity. To maintain order and efficiency, refactoring becomes essential. It’s a critical step in managing technical debt post-launch, optimizing performance and maintainability.

Despite hesitations around refactoring due to perceived risks and time investment, aligning all team members on its value is crucial. Recognizing the importance of refactoring and its role in reducing technical debt can lead to successful outcomes.

API development and 3rd party integrations

Leverage our REST API development services, enabling consistent communication and data exchange for your applications, enhancing functionality and user experience.

Database development

Enhancing your applications with our database development services. Ensuring robustness, scalability, and enhanced performance in alignment with industry standards.

Backend architecture development

Benefit from Ralabs custom business logic development to implement rules and processes that serve your exact business needs, ensuring your applications run smoothly and effectively. Monolith, microservice, serverless.

Complex workflows development

Optimization of your business processes with our services in developing complex workflows, facilitating enhanced automation, efficiency, and productivity in your operations.

Work with data

Empower your business decision-making by working with enriched, well-organized data. Our data engineering services ensure your data is accurately processed, analyzed, and made ready for insightful consumption. Link to Data Engineering

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3rd party Integrations

Enrich your system’s capabilities through our integration services. We specialize in integrating existing systems or transforming them into efficient third-party solutions, ensuring enhanced interoperability and functionality.

Technical backend audit

Comprehensive assessment by a skilled team, focusing on areas such as development practices, security, and team management, with the aim of improving software performance.

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WE BUILD USING:

Programming languages:

Frameworks:

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Libraries:

+15 more libraries

Databases:

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Others:

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3rd parties:

Payment Gateways
Authentication Services
Database Hosting
Cloud Storage
and meny more of 3rd parties

OUR APPROACH TO CUSTOM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Requirements gathering
Requirements validation
PoC creation / Technical validation
Roadmapping, Data Architecture & Design
Development
Compliance validation
QA
Performance and stress testing
Final delivery
Maintenance and Support

Requirements gathering

Our discussions prioritize key solutions to be developed and identify critical product issues for resolution. The outcomes include essential artifacts such as requirement documentation, work breakdown structures, UML diagrams detailing architecture, and infrastructure, along with lists of queries, assumptions, and additional costs.

Requirements validation

Your product's requirements are thoroughly validated internally with our extensive expertise, and externally with advisors, where needed. The finalized set of requirements is then collaboratively reviewed and presented to you.

PoC creation / Technical validation

Optimizing cost and time, we initiate projects with a proof of concept. This allows us to establish if the project idea is viable or not. Consider this the research phase

Roadmapping, Data Architecture & Design

Following confirmation and prototype validation, we progress to detailed solution design and data architecture, incorporating advanced flows and edge cases. Refining system design, data structures, and infrastructure. Led by certified professionals with proven cloud expertise, our teams specialize in building projects using platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure.

Development

During the development phase, we focus on speed, security, and quality, facilitated through transparent communication, rapid feedback loops, and adherence to internal programming conventions and engineering practices. We incorporate code reviews, automation, and AI performance amplifiers, ensuring effective project management, security, and compliance. Customer feedback is solicited early through demonstrative sessions. Our technological expertise encompasses Python, Node.js, Ruby, and a host of frameworks, modules, and open-source solutions, including serverless technologies like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, to optimize time and financial resources. Measuring quality through DQS audit regularly and sharing insights with clients.

Compliance validation

Following initial releases, we conduct reviews using our internal standard – Delivery Quality Service, ensuring that our solutions adhere to requisite standards. With a focus on healthcare and fintech, our approach is proficient in compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, OWASP, WCAG, PSD2, KYC, CIS, PCI DSS and more. Our certified team undergoes regular training to uphold and enforce regulatory compliance and best practices within our solutions.

Our QA team comprises T-shaped specialists, skilled in manual QA, business analysis, and automation, bringing hands-on experience in testing web services, mobile applications, and various APIs, including REST, SOAP, and GraphQL, along with synchronous and asynchronous flows and load testing. We employ leading automation frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, and Capybara to ensure meticulous quality assurance.

Security penetration testing / Performance and stress testing

Our clients may undergo annual audits by third-party partners, dependent on their industry and product or service, ensuring network security, system stability, persistent security, data encryption in transfer and at rest, data governance, and backups. We assist in addressing any identified issues. Our engineers, trained in OWASP protocols and versed in the OWASP Top 10, ensure the development and remediation of solutions with a focus on robust security measures.

Final delivery

Prior to final delivery, quality is assured through User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and various testing methodologies, tailored to project objectives, and preparation of infrastructure for release. Necessary preparations, such as backend and frontend applications setup, monitoring establishment, and mobile application builds for publishing in the Apple App Store and Google Play Market, are diligently executed. This also includes the readying of processes and teams for subsequent maintenance and the refinement of documentation.

Maintenance and Support

Following release, we dedicate efforts to address potential bugs and expand functionality based on customer requests. We manage data backups, maintain schedules, and continuously improve products and associated infrastructure. Our proactive approach involves sharing expertise to preempt live issues and security risks, ensuring the seamless execution of future releases.