Custom software development
Bespoke applications modelled on your domain rather than a template: typed backends, considered data models, automated tests and a deployment path that exists from the first week.
Service index
Twelve ways we engineer with you
Each service below is delivered by engineers who take part in the design, the implementation and the operation of what they build. Scope, constraints and expected outcomes are agreed in writing before delivery starts.
Service catalogue
What each engagement covers
Web application development
Responsive, accessible web applications with server rendering where it helps, measured performance budgets and interfaces built on a documented design system.
Cloud solutions
Architecture and implementation on managed cloud services: environment design, networking, storage strategy, scaling behaviour and cost-aware resource sizing.
System architecture
Service boundaries, data ownership, integration patterns and failure modes, documented as decision records that your team can extend after we finish.
API and platform integrations
Versioned APIs and dependable connections between systems: contract-first design, idempotent processing, retries, backpressure and clear error semantics.
Data engineering
Batch and streaming pipelines, warehouse and analytical modelling, migrations, quality checks and lineage so reported numbers can be traced to their source.
DevOps and infrastructure
Infrastructure as code, reproducible environments, container orchestration, build and release automation, plus rollback paths rehearsed before they are needed.
Cybersecurity consulting
Threat modelling, access and secret management review, dependency and configuration assessment, and practical remediation ordered by risk rather than convenience.
Quality assurance
Test strategy and automation across unit, integration, contract and end-to-end levels, with load testing and regression coverage tied into the pipeline.
Technical consulting
Focused review of an architecture, a delivery process or a technology choice, concluding in written findings, options and trade-offs you can act on independently.
Legacy system modernization
Incremental modernisation of software already in production: mapping current behaviour, isolating risky areas and replacing them in steps that keep the system running.
Ongoing software support
Maintenance of live systems: monitoring and alerting, dependency and platform updates, incident response, performance tuning and continuing small improvements.
Delivery detail
What is included in every service
- Written scope
- An agreed description of the outcome, the boundaries and the assumptions behind them.
- Architecture notes
- Decisions recorded with their alternatives, so future changes start from context.
- Automated verification
- Tests and pipeline checks that run on every change, not on request.
- Observability
- Logs, metrics and alerts that make the running system explain itself.
- Documentation
- Setup, operation and troubleshooting notes written for the team who inherits the system.
- Handover
- Knowledge transfer sessions and code walk-throughs so ownership can move at any time.
Engagement shapes
Three ways services are arranged
Defined project
A scoped outcome delivered by a Horizon Bop team that owns design, build and release.
Embedded engineers
Our engineers work inside your team, following your standards, rituals and review process.
Review and advisory
A time-boxed assessment producing written findings, options and a prioritised plan.
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