A backend that holds up as your product grows
The backend is the quiet half of your product: the APIs, data models and infrastructure sitting under everything your users touch. We build it to stay fast and steady as you grow, so the half people notice keeps working.
What backend development covers
We build the backend of your product with care: API design, data modeling, third party integrations and the architecture underneath, built to stay fast and steady as your product, and the load on it, get bigger.
API development
The interfaces your front end, mobile apps and partners build against.
Data modeling
Structuring the data your product depends on so it stays accurate, fast to query and easy to change.
Third party integrations
The payments, messaging, identity and other services your product leans on.
Architecture
Systems designed to hold up under real usage and grow with the product.
Performance and scale
Keeping the backend fast as traffic, data and complexity climb.
Observability
Knowing what's happening in production before your users have to tell you.
Web Development and Mobile Development build what consumes these APIs. DevOps & Cloud runs them.
What we work with
Languages and runtimes
Frameworks
APIs
Data
Cloud and serverless
Messaging and async
Auth and identity
How we work it
Contract first
The API contract agreed up front, so your front end, mobile and partner teams build in parallel instead of waiting on each other.
Build with tests
Automated tests on every endpoint from the first one, because a backend you're afraid to change is one that's already holding you back.
Load and observe
Realistic load and full instrumentation before launch, so you see how it behaves under pressure before your users do.
Who does this work
Backend Engineers
Senior and mid level, building the services, APIs and data layer inside your repositories and standards.
Tech Lead
The architecture decisions and the technical direction.
Where this capability fits
Success cases
Wrist Goal is a smartwatch app delivering live football scores and match events to Huawei wearables, built by Somnio and launched natively on HarmonyOS NEXT with a template-based architecture ready to scale to future tournaments.
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We partnered with the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) to elevate member services through technology, delivering a seamless experience across Ontario.
What our clients say
“Their approach started with a Product Discovery phase, including user research, UI/UX design improvements, and technical assessments to ensure scalability. Their proactive work made a real difference in the project's success”
“Somnio Software has delivered an MVP that meets the changing needs of AI users. They've communicated effectively, have been highly responsive, and their project management is excellent. Their developers have become thought partners.”
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FAQs
Still have some doubts?
No worries, here are some frequently asked questions that may help you.
Backend development is the engineering behind what users see: the servers, databases, APIs and logic that power the interface. It's where your data is stored, requests are handled and the rules of the product actually live.
It depends on how your data is shaped and how your clients will use it. REST fits most products. GraphQL earns its place when clients need to pull varied, nested data in one request. We'll talk it through with you and recommend one, with the reasoning behind it.
For most products, a monolith is the right place to start, and microservices solve problems of scale and team size you may not have yet. We'll help you match the architecture to where your product actually is today, not where a diagram says it should be.
Yes, and often that's exactly where we come in. We start with a review of the data model, the API surface and the parts that hurt under load, then take it from there with you.
We design for the load you have plus the load you can already see coming, instrument early, and change the architecture when the numbers say to, not before. No rebuilding for traffic that may never arrive.