Backend and API development in Delhi NCR
Gurugram's delivery, logistics and home-services companies tend to run the same kind of backend underneath: a state machine for an order, a shipment or a job, fed by events from riders' phones, courier partners and payment gateways. Those events arrive late, twice and out of order. A delivered update lands before the picked-up one, a courier's webhook retries for an hour, and the customer is refunded for an order that arrived.
We build and repair these backends in Node and Python so that the order of arrival stops mattering. Every transition is validated against the current state, duplicates are recognised and ignored, partner integrations run through queues with retries you can see, and there is a reconciliation job for the cases that still slip through. We work inside the system you already run, starting with the failures that cost you money or customer trust.
Delhi NCR is not one market but three, joined by expressways and a metro. Gurugram is where much of India's consumer internet grew up: food and grocery delivery, travel, logistics, home services and fintech, alongside the Indian offices of many multinationals. Noida has a different mix, with large IT services firms, edtech, media and healthcare technology companies selling to hospitals in the US. Delhi itself holds the government, and with it every company whose customer is a ministry, a state department or a public sector undertaking.
The consumer companies share an operational problem. Their software coordinates people in the physical world, riders, couriers, technicians and sellers, on cheap phones and busy roads, and the backend has to cope with status updates that arrive late, twice or out of order. Many of them are now past the stage of growth at any cost and into the stage of unit economics, which turns engineering questions into money questions: what does each order cost to serve, and which part of the cloud bill is paying for nothing.
Companies that sell to government need software shaped like the organisation it serves. Access follows the organisation chart: a district sees its own records, a state sees its districts, a ministry sees all of them, and every approval has a proposer and an approver. Noida's healthcare technology companies need something similar for hospital customers abroad, with each customer's data kept firmly apart. Across all three cities the hiring market is crowded. The consumer companies, the multinationals and the IT services firms compete for the same senior engineers, so a defined piece of work often waits months for someone to own it.
We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so the working day is the same on both sides, and a problem raised in the morning gets a response that morning. You talk directly to the engineer who writes the code. Most of the work happens in your repository and a shared chat channel, and the decisions, runbooks and architecture notes are written down as we go for everyone who was not on the call.
We are the right fit when an NCR team needs senior capacity quickly: a defined build, a backend that has to stop losing orders, or the months while your permanent hire works out their notice. Start with a fixed-price two-week piece and judge us on what ships. Agencies and IT services firms can bring us in white-label under their name.
Four ways this arrives.
We read the code, write down what it does versus what everyone believes it does, and give you the list of the five things most likely to page someone at night. Then we fix those first.
Usually queries, not architecture. We profile under real traffic, fix the plans and the indexes, and only then discuss whether anything needs splitting apart.
A mobile client, a partner integration, a public API. We design the contract first, version it properly, and write the docs your consumers will read.
Jobs that silently vanish, retries that duplicate charges, a queue nobody monitors. We make it idempotent, observable, and boring.
A moderated messaging backend where sends acknowledge in-band and the review runs behind them.
Read the write-up →Asked by Delhi NCR teams.
How do you work with teams in Delhi NCR?+
We are in Bengaluru and share your time zone, so calls, reviews and releases happen inside your normal working day, whether you are in Gurugram, Noida or Delhi. We work in your tools, Slack, GitHub and Linear or whatever your team already uses. You talk directly to the engineer writing the code, from the first 30-minute call onwards, and the decisions, runbooks and architecture notes are written down in your repository as we go.
Do you build for delivery and logistics companies?+
Yes. We build the systems that coordinate riders, couriers and technicians: order and shipment state that stays correct when events arrive late, twice or out of order, partner apps that keep working offline and upload proof of delivery when the network returns, and reconciliation that catches what still slips through. We also build the data pipelines that finally give everyone one answer to what an order costs to serve.
How does your rate compare to hiring in Delhi NCR?+
PayScale puts a mid-career software engineer in Gurugram at about ₹16 lakh a year. Our published rate is $35 an hour, with a $5,000 minimum. That buys a senior engineer who writes the code, works in your Slack, GitHub and Linear, and starts within days, with no recruiting round, notice period or employment overhead. Begin with a fixed-price two-week piece at $2,800 and judge us on what ships.
Can you take over a platform another team built?+
Yes, and it is a common way in. We start by reading the code and writing down what it actually does: the services, the background jobs, the parts only one person understood. The fixed-price two-week piece is usually the failure that costs you most, fixed and documented. At the end you have working code, a map of the system and a written plan for what comes next, all in your repository.
Can you work in our existing codebase?+
Yes, and it is most of what we do. We do not require a rewrite as a condition of working with you. If we think a rewrite is genuinely the right call we will say so, with the reasoning and the cost, and you can decide.
What if the backend is in a language you do not list?+
Then we will tell you. We are useful in Node, Python and TypeScript. We can read Go and PHP well enough to migrate off them. We would not take a Rust or Elixir project and learn it on your budget.
Do you write tests?+
For anything with money, permissions or data loss in it, yes. We do not chase a coverage number. We will tell you which parts are covered and which are not in the handover notes.
Who owns the code?+
You do, from the first commit. Repositories live in your organisation. If we set them up, we transfer them before the first invoice.
What happens when the engagement ends?+
You get runbooks, architecture notes and a recorded walkthrough. We stay available for questions for a month at no cost, because a handover that needs us on retainer is not a handover.