About the Studio

Small team.
Serious mileage.

We're a UK product and engineering studio with a deliberately small senior team. Between us we've built regulated gaming platforms, high-traffic sports sites, e-commerce and delivery systems, enterprise integrations, and the cloud infrastructure holding them up — and we bring all of that to projects of any size.

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Our Story

Built by people who build.

Backstage Digital was built by people who got tired of the gap between what agencies promised and what they delivered. We'd seen it from both sides — as founders frustrated with development partners who talked a big game but couldn't ship, and as engineers frustrated with being handed impossible timelines and no real ownership.

So we started our own studio. Small, focused, and built around one principle: we only take on work we're confident we can ship.

The team's background is broader than the studio's age suggests. Between us we've worked on licensed gambling platforms where every transaction has to be auditable, sports sites that go from idle to national traffic in a heartbeat, e-commerce checkouts and multi-provider payment stacks, food delivery systems juggling customers, merchants and drivers at once, tariff and duty engines where the rules change under you, and enterprise estates built on Salesforce, Microsoft and single sign-on.

We've also built and launched our own products — including SoundScreen, live on the Apple App Store and Google Play. That means we've been through every step ourselves: the App Store rejections, the payment webhook debugging at midnight, the DNS records that refuse to propagate, the build that fails the night before launch.

That combination is the point. Enterprise-grade experience, delivered without the enterprise agency wrapped around it. We're not working from the manual — we're working from having done it.

We're a UK studio working with clients across the UK and internationally. We take on a small number of projects at any given time, which means you get direct access to senior engineers — not an account manager, not a junior team, not a project management layer between you and the people making decisions.

What We Stand For

The things we don't
compromise on.

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Shipping over talking

We measure success by what's live in the world, not what's in a document. Every project ends with working software.

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Honesty over comfort

We'll tell you if your idea has problems. We'd rather lose a project than take on work we know is going to fail.

Speed through experience

We move fast because we've done this before. Not because we're skipping steps — because we know which steps matter.

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Partnership, not service

We're invested in your product's success, not just delivery of a spec. The best outcomes come from genuine collaboration.

Capabilities

What we're expert in.

React Native
iOS + Android
Swift & Kotlin
Native mobile
Next.js & React
Web apps & SaaS
TypeScript
Full-stack
WordPress
Themes, plugins & headless
Node.js & PHP
Backend & APIs
AWS
Architecture & migration
Azure
Cloud & identity
Google Cloud
Serverless & data
Terraform
Infrastructure as code
Managed Hosting
Domains, DNS & TLS
Firebase
Realtime, Auth & Functions
Salesforce
Integration & extension
Microsoft 365
Graph API & automation
Entra ID
Enterprise identity
SSO
SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC
Stripe
Subscriptions & billing
Adyen
Cards & alternative payments
RevenueCat
In-app purchases
Tableau
Dashboards & BI
SQL & PostgreSQL
Data modelling
App Store & Play
Submission & ASO
Vercel
Edge deployment
Product Strategy
MVP, GTM, roadmap
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United Kingdom
Working with clients across the UK and internationally
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