Hire a Backend Developer
Node.js APIs, background job queues and the infrastructure underneath them — built for the failure case, not just the happy path.
The problem
Your frontend team can ship UI fast, but the API underneath it is starting to show cracks — slow endpoints blocking the request thread, no retry story when a webhook fails, one server holding state that should be shared.
Backend work that looks done in a demo often isn't done for production — what happens on timeout, on duplicate delivery, on a spike in traffic. That's the part I actually enjoy building, and the part three years on encrypted storage, wallets and payments infrastructure has been mostly about.
My approach
Anything that can fail slowly — email, webhooks, heavy work — belongs in a queue with retries, not the request thread.
What happens on retry, on timeout, on partial failure gets decided before the happy path does.
Docker, CI/CD and the reverse proxy are part of the backend, not someone else's problem to solve later.
Relevant tech
Not a wishlist — everything below is running somewhere real right now.
The drive service backend for an end-to-end encrypted storage product at CWC Technologies — file and folder APIs, encrypted object storage, and a metadata model for data the server can't read.
A reusable Next.js checkout iframe and auth/checkout APIs embedded across 5+ WordPress storefronts from a single codebase, with Redis/BullMQ email queues and zero-downtime deploys.
Case study: Pharos, a SaaS billing, inventory and accounting product for Indian SMEs — founded and built solo by Mohammad Anas. Keyboard-first billing, batch and expiry inventory, GST and e-invoicing, role-based dashboards.
How we'd work together
Depending on what you need, this usually looks like one of three arrangements.
A defined API, service or migration, scoped and delivered on a timeline you approve upfront.
Ongoing backend work and on-call-style maintenance, billed monthly, scaled up or down as needed.
Join your existing team's sprint process as an embedded backend contractor.
Contact
Tell me what's breaking, or what you're about to build. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit.