Who we are, and why trust us with your software
CarryCodes is a small engineering team, not a corporation with ten thousand employees. That is the point: the people who scope your project are the people who build it.
Our story
CarryCodes started as backend engineers who kept getting asked to rescue projects other vendors had built: systems that fell over at the first real traffic, integrations that silently lost data, codebases nobody could safely change.
We built a company around the opposite premise — software that is architected before it is written, tested before it is shipped and monitored after it launches. Today we build SaaS platforms, e-commerce systems and operations software for clients we work with remotely across EMEA.
We deliberately stay small. Every project gets senior engineers and direct access to technical leadership, not account managers relaying messages.
How we work
- Direct access to the engineers building your product
- Weekly written progress, not status-meeting theatre
- Staging environment you can click through from week two
- You own the repository, the infrastructure and the documentation
Location & reach
London, UK — working with clients remotely across EMEA. We work async-first with scheduled overlap hours, so time zones are a process question, not a blocker.
What we refuse to skip
Git workflow
Trunk-based with short-lived branches; main is always deployable.
Code review
Every change reviewed by another engineer before merge — no exceptions for urgency.
CI/CD
Lint, type-check, tests and image build on every push; deploys are automated and repeatable.
Staging environments
A production-shaped environment for every project, with realistic data volumes.
Automated testing
Unit tests on business logic, integration tests on API contracts, smoke tests after deploy.
Manual QA
Critical flows exercised by a human before release, against a written checklist.
Monitoring
Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards and alerts on error rate, latency and queue depth.
Backups
Automated database backups with periodic restore rehearsals — an untested backup is not a backup.
Security
Least-privilege access, secret management, dependency scanning and no credentials in code.
Documentation
Architecture notes, runbooks and onboarding docs live in the repository, updated with the code.
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One business day for a reply from an engineer, not a sales pipeline. Tell us the problem and we'll tell you honestly if we're a fit.