Custom software development in Brisbane
A Brisbane mining contractor can have hundreds of people on rosters across several sites, each needing current tickets, inductions and medicals before they are allowed on site. Much of it is tracked in spreadsheets and emailed PDFs, and a lapsed ticket is found at the gate, at the start of a swing, with a flight already paid for.
Custom software earns its place when the process is genuinely yours. We build tools that hold every worker's competencies and expiry dates, check them against the roster before anyone travels, and warn supervisors weeks ahead instead of on the day. We integrate with your payroll and rostering systems through supported interfaces rather than replacing them. If an off-the-shelf product covers most of the need, we will say so before we write any code.
The state is one of Brisbane's largest software buyers. The Queensland Government, its departments and its hospital and health services run a large share of the city's technology work, directly and through the consultancies and suppliers around them. They need public services that work for someone on fibre in the inner city and someone on a weak mobile signal in a remote community, and internal systems that let a small team look after a very big state.
Mining services are the second pillar. Queensland's mining equipment, technology and services firms sell into the Bowen Basin and to mines around the world, and many run their engineering and head offices from Brisbane. Their software problems come from distance: equipment reporting over intermittent links, maintenance data from sites hours from the nearest city, and field crews working on rosters. Health adds a third: a large public health system spread across the state, where a clinician in a regional town and a specialist in Brisbane need the same record. Looking further out, the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games are already driving infrastructure work across the south-east, and the tourism, events and food businesses around them are planning for demand their systems have never seen.
Hiring costs less than in Sydney or Melbourne. Indeed puts the average base salary for a software engineer in Brisbane at A$101,980, from 87 reported salaries. Specialist skills are the harder part: an engineer who has built for remote sites, offline field work or a booking spike is a rare hire in any city. That is where we fit: senior engineers on a defined piece of work within days, with the code in your repositories from the first commit.
Our four hours of daily overlap land in your afternoon, moved to suit your team. Neither Queensland nor India changes its clocks, so the window sits at the same point in your day all year round. Your morning belongs to your own team; the afternoon is for stand-ups, reviews and decisions with the engineer who writes your code, and runbooks and architecture notes are written as we go.
We are the right fit when a system your team has no time to build has a clear shape, when you need senior engineers on it within days, or when a hire is still months from starting. Begin with a fixed-price two-week piece and judge us on what ships. Agencies and consultancies can put the work under their own name.
Four ways this arrives.
Approvals, schedules or stock, tracked in a shared file with colour codes only one person understands. We turn it into an application with proper records, permissions and history, so you can see who changed what and when, and nobody works from an old copy.
Staff copy data from one system into another by hand, and the two slowly drift apart. We connect them through their APIs, clean up the data where it crosses over, and alert someone when a sync fails instead of letting it fail quietly.
The numbers exist, spread across exports and inboxes, and someone assembles a report by hand every Monday. We pull them into one place, build the dashboard the people making decisions will actually open, and check it is current rather than trusting the job that feeds it.
A legacy application still runs the business and every change to it is a risk. We map what it really does, move it piece by piece onto something maintainable, and keep both running until the last piece has landed. No weekend cut-over.
A facilities operations platform for a healthcare estate, built so supervisors can see what is overdue and what keeps coming back without exporting spreadsheets by hand.
Read the write-up →Asked by Brisbane teams.
How do you work with teams in Brisbane?+
We are in Bengaluru, and four hours of every working day overlap with your afternoon, moved to suit your team. Neither Queensland nor India changes its clocks, so the window stays put all year. Stand-ups, code reviews and design calls happen live in it. We work in your tools, whether that is Slack, GitHub or Linear, and the person on every call is the engineer who writes the code.
Do you build for mining and METS companies?+
Yes. Brisbane's mining equipment, technology and services firms need software around their equipment, and that is what we build: backends that accept late and out-of-order data from remote sites, models that predict failures from vibration and temperature readings, offline apps for field crews, and roster and competency tools for contractors. We work inside your codebase and your cloud, starting with the problem that costs you most on site.
How does your rate compare to hiring in Brisbane?+
Indeed puts the average base salary for a software engineer in Brisbane at around A$102,000. Our published rate is $35/hour with a $5,000 minimum, or $5,400 a month for one embedded engineer. There is no recruiting time and no employment overhead, and work can start within days of the call. The first piece is a fixed-price two-week engagement at $2,800, so you can judge us on what ships.
Can you add capacity while we wait for a hire?+
Yes. If a Brisbane role is open and the roadmap is still moving, we can take a defined piece of it now. Start with a fixed-price two-week piece, or embed one engineer at $5,400 a month. Runbooks and architecture notes are written as we go and the code sits in your repositories from the first commit, so when your hire starts, they inherit work they can read and extend.
Why not buy an off-the-shelf tool?+
Often you should, and we will tell you when. If a product already does most of what you need, configuring it is cheaper than building. Custom software earns its cost when the process is how you compete, when you pay for several tools to do one job badly, or when the workarounds cost more staff time than the software would.
Can you work with the systems we already have?+
That is usually the job. Most internal tools are valuable because of what they connect to: an ERP, a work-order system, a CRM, a finance package. If it has an API, we integrate with it. If all it offers is a nightly export, we can work with that too, and we will tell you how fresh the data can honestly be.
How do you find out what we actually need?+
By talking to the people who do the work, not only the people who asked for the tool. We watch the spreadsheet being used, collect the edge cases everyone handles from memory, and write the process down before we build anything. The first release covers the core of it; the exceptions follow once people are using it.
What happens to our old data?+
It comes with you. We migrate it, check the counts and totals against the source, and keep the old system or spreadsheet readable until your team is confident nothing was lost. Where the old data is inconsistent, we show you the records that do not fit rather than quietly guessing what they meant.
Who looks after it once it is live?+
You choose. We can stay on at our hourly rate for changes and fixes, or hand it to your own team with runbooks, architecture notes and a recorded walkthrough. Internal tools change as the business changes, so we build them to be changed by someone other than us.