Software and mobile development
SDEN designs and ships production web platforms, SaaS applications, and native and cross-platform mobile apps, from a blank page to App Store, Play Store, and live production.
What this domain covers
Software and mobile is the largest discipline at SDEN. The work spans the full surface: web platforms (B2B SaaS, internal tooling, consumer products), native iOS and Android apps, cross-platform mobile (Flutter, React Native), and the back-end services that hold them up. We take projects from a blank page through architecture, prototype, staged release, and post-launch operation. We also take over codebases that have stalled and need to be rebuilt without losing the business logic already encoded.
Our architecture defaults are deliberately boring. Next.js with TypeScript and React for the web tier; PostgreSQL with Prisma or Drizzle for the data tier; Node.js for the API surface unless a domain (real-time, ML inference, embedded) demands something else. Mobile defaults to Flutter or React Native unless the product needs deep platform integration, in which case we ship native Swift or Kotlin. The shared principle: pick the tool the team can still maintain three years from now, not the framework that trended last quarter.
Software and mobile development: the SDEN defaults
Defaults we ship
- TypeScript end-to-end (no untyped boundaries between server and client)
- Component-driven UI with a shared design system
- Server-rendered by default; client-rendered only where interactivity demands it
- App Store and Play Store releases automated through CI
Deliverables
- Architecture decision record (ADR) for every non-trivial choice
- End-to-end typed API contract between front-end and back-end
- CI/CD pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys on every commit
- Documentation written for the next engineer, not the project manager
What we refuse to ship
We will not hand off a stack the client cannot maintain after we leave. If the team that inherits the code is two senior generalists, we ship boring infrastructure, not a polyglot microservices mesh.
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