API development
REST and GraphQL APIs, plus connections to the third-party services you rely on.
What this service covers
We build APIs that other teams, partners and customers can rely on: versioned, documented with OpenAPI, and protected with proper authentication and rate limiting. That covers public APIs you sell access to as well as internal ones your own apps depend on.
A large part of the work is integration: payment providers, CRMs, ERPs, shipping carriers and identity providers. We handle retries, idempotency and webhooks so a flaky third party does not become your outage.
Every API ships with generated client SDKs and a sandbox, so the people consuming it can start without a call.
What you get out of it
The results clients typically see. We agree the measures that matter to you during discovery.
- 01
Partners integrate without a support call
Interactive docs, a sandbox environment and example requests for every endpoint.
- 02
No lost webhooks or double charges
Idempotency keys, retries with backoff and dead-letter queues on every integration.
- 03
Breaking changes that do not break anyone
Versioning and deprecation rules agreed up front and enforced in CI.
How the engagement runs
A typical API development engagement, start to finish. You see working results every week.
Stack we use most often
- OpenAPI
- GraphQL
- Node.js
- .NET
- Kong
- AWS API Gateway
- Postman
- Pact
We fit in with what your team already runs.
- 1
Contract first
1 weekDesign the API schema with the teams who will consume it.
- 2
Build and integrate
3–6 weeksEndpoints, auth and third-party connections, tested against the contract.
- 3
Docs and SDKs
1 weekDocumentation portal, SDK generation and sandbox.
Deliverables
What you receive, all in your own accounts.
- REST or GraphQL API with an OpenAPI or schema definition
- Interactive documentation portal
- OAuth 2.0 or API key authentication with rate limiting
- Generated TypeScript and Python client SDKs
- Webhook delivery with retries and signing
- Third-party integrations with contract tests
- Sandbox environment with seed data
FAQ
Common questions about API development
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