API Development & Backend Services by Alpha Expansion
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API Development & Backend Services

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We design and build REST and GraphQL APIs for web apps, mobile apps and partner integrations, with a documented contract, versioning and authentication your consumers can rely on from the first request.

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01REST and GraphQL
02OpenAPI documentation
01Our Approach

We write the contract before the code, so every endpoint is defined, documented and testable long before a consumer depends on it.

02Overview

APIs designed as products with real consumers

  • 01REST and GraphQL
  • 02OpenAPI documentation
  • 03Webhooks and SDKs

This service covers the interface your product exposes to the world, meaning REST and GraphQL endpoints, webhooks, real-time channels and the authentication, rate limiting and documentation around them. It is the right choice when several consumers depend on one backend, such as a web app, a mobile app and partner systems, and each needs a stable, predictable contract.

We start from the consumers rather than the database. Resources, error formats, pagination and versioning rules are defined in an OpenAPI or GraphQL schema first, then implemented against it with contract tests that fail the build when behavior drifts. The result is an API that other teams can integrate with from the documentation alone, without reading your source code.

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03What We Do

Capabilities, End to End

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REST API design

Resource modeling, consistent naming, pagination, filtering and error formats defined in an OpenAPI specification, so every endpoint behaves the way the one before it did.

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GraphQL schemas

Typed schemas, resolvers and query cost limits for products whose screens need different shapes of the same data, with batching to avoid repeated database calls.

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Authentication and access

OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT sessions and scoped API keys, with permissions checked on the server for every request rather than trusted from the caller.

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Webhooks and events

Signed webhooks with retries, idempotency keys and delivery logs, plus WebSocket or Server-Sent Events channels where consumers need updates as they happen.

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Third-party integrations

Connections to payment providers, CRMs, identity services and internal systems, wrapped in adapters with timeouts and retries so an outside failure does not become yours.

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Versioning and deprecation

A versioning policy, changelog and deprecation headers that let you change the API without breaking apps already in the field or partners mid-integration.

04In Production

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05What You Receive

Handed Over, Ready to Run

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Production API source code
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OpenAPI or GraphQL schema files
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Hosted reference documentation
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Postman collection with example requests
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Automated contract and integration tests
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Versioning and deprecation policy
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Monitoring dashboards and alert rules
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Access to all repositories and environments
06How It Runs

From Kickoff to Launch

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Map the consumers
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Design the contract
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Build and test
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Release and observe
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Map the consumers

We list every app, partner and internal system that will call the API, the data each one needs and the limits it works under, then set scope and priorities from that list.

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Design the contract

Endpoints, schemas, error codes and authentication flows are written as a specification and reviewed with your team. Front-end and mobile developers can build against a mock server while implementation begins.

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Build and test

We implement in small, reviewed increments. Contract tests, integration tests and load tests run in the pipeline, and each endpoint ships with its documentation and example requests already written.

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Release and observe

The API goes live behind a gateway with rate limits, structured logs, tracing and alerts. We watch real traffic with you, tune slow queries and hand over runbooks for common incidents.

07Technology

The Stack We Use

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08Who It Is For

Built for Teams Like Yours

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Several apps and partners depend on one API

Your web app, your mobile apps and outside partners all need the same data, and today each one is served by endpoints added in a hurry. You need a single, documented interface with clear rules for access, change and failure before the next integration begins.

Backends for mobile apps
Public developer APIs
Partner and marketplace integrations
Replacing an undocumented legacy API
Payment and CRM connections
Splitting a monolith by domain
09Questions

What buyers ask before they start

If yours is not here, ask us directly. The first conversation is free and useful whether or not we work together.

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It depends on who consumes it. REST suits public and partner APIs, because it is simple to cache, document and secure, and almost every tool speaks it. GraphQL suits products where many screens need different combinations of the same data and the front-end team wants to move without waiting for new endpoints. We often recommend REST for external consumers and GraphQL for your own apps.

API development focuses on the interface, meaning the contract, documentation, authentication and developer experience for whoever calls your system. Backend systems engineering focuses on what sits behind it, such as data models, queues, background processing and scaling under load. Many projects need both. If your main problem is that integrations are slow or fragile, start here. If it is throughput or data consistency, start with backend systems.

Yes. We begin with an audit of the existing endpoints, their consumers and the traffic each one receives. From there we either add to the current API following its conventions, or introduce a new version alongside it and migrate consumers one at a time. Old endpoints stay in place until nothing calls them, so apps already installed on phones keep working throughout.

Every request is authenticated and then authorized against the specific resource it asks for, which closes the most common class of API flaw. Input is validated against the schema, rate limits apply per key, and secrets live in a managed vault rather than in code. We add audit logging for sensitive actions and run automated security scans in the pipeline before each release.

Everything. You receive the complete source code, the OpenAPI or GraphQL schema, the test suite, infrastructure configuration and written documentation, along with access to all repositories and environments. The code lives in your accounts from the start, so there is no transfer step at the end. We also hand over runbooks so your own engineers can deploy, monitor and extend the API without us.

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