Northwind Software designs and builds web applications, integrations and platform upgrades for funded startups and mid-market teams who need senior engineers on the call — not a rotating bench of juniors.
Fixed-price discovery sprints available. Remote-first across US time zones.
Sprint board · this week
Northwind delivery workspace
- banner.audience: internal + banner.audience: beta
12 weeks · Node · Postgres
SaaS
3 weeks · prototype in Figma + Node
SaaS
8 services · SDK published
Integrations
| Service | Owner | Tier | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| payments-api | AK @payments | 1 | 92 |
| search-index | LM @search | 2 | 78 |
| identity-bridge | JR @id | 1 | 88 |
| billing-worker | ST @rev | 2 | 85 |
| notify-svc | EV @comms | 3 | 71 |
| checkout-api | MW @cart | 1 | 90 |
Workshops, clickable prototypes and research summaries that give executives a shared picture before code starts.
Northwind squads ship React and Node services with automated tests, CI pipelines and observability baked in.
Developers opt in to email or RSS when endpoints they use change, not every commit.
Tag a release and ForgeKit rebuilds docs, posts to Slack and opens a draft blog post.
npx synapse create service --template http-go --tier 1
Strangler migrations with feature flags, dual writes and rollback plans written before cutover weekend.
Northwind leads pair with your product owner daily and leave playbooks when the engagement ends.
On-call rotation, performance reviews and roadmap advisory hours for teams without a full platform group.
Frameworks Northwind ships most often — sortable example rows for a typical engagement.
| Web UI | React + TypeScript | Vue, Svelte | 2 | 6 wk | 48 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| API | Node + Postgres | Go, .NET | 2 | 8 wk | 52 |
| Mobile | React Native | Flutter | 2 | 10 wk | 36 |
| Data | dbt + BigQuery | Snowflake | 1 | 4 wk | 28 |
| Infra | Terraform + AWS | Azure, GCP | 1 | 3 wk | 40 |
| Observability | OpenTelemetry | Datadog agents | 1 | 2 wk | 22 |
How Northwind runs a typical product build from kickoff to launch.
Interviews, architecture sketch and a fixed-price milestone for the first releasable slice.
Clickable flows tested with stakeholders; success metrics agreed before backend work deepens.
Weekly demos, automated tests and performance budgets enforced in CI.
Runbooks, on-call rotations and optional retainer for enhancements.
Northwind quotes name deliverables, squad size and support windows up front.
Three-week sprint with prototype and written scope for MVP.
$18,000/ month
Cross-functional squad shipping weekly demos toward launch.
$42,000/ month
Two senior engineers embedded with your product team.
$28,000/ month
“Northwind replatformed our billing API without a single weekend outage — the rollback plan never left the wiki.”
“Their discovery sprint gave our board a prototype they could click instead of another slide deck.”
“We kept the same Northwind lead for two years; continuity mattered more than the hourly rate.”
Selected customer feedback.
Northwind staff every role with employees and long-term contractors who join client calls.
Healthcare, logistics, fintech and B2B SaaS are common; we decline projects outside our compliance comfort zone.
You own the code and designs; Northwind retains no license after final payment.
Yes. Fixed-price audits include a prioritized remediation list and optional embed to fix findings.
Share your timeline, stack and team shape. Northwind responds with a squad proposal and sample statement of work.
Book a discovery call and receive a draft scope within five business days.