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Hire Backbone.js developers who actually ship.

Legacy Backbone apps don't need a rewrite. They need an expert. We place senior engineers who've maintained, untangled, and modernized Backbone codebases since 2013 — the kind who read Underscore source for fun and know why your view keeps double-binding.

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Why Backbone, why now

Your codebase is an asset, not a liability.

Rewrites are rarely faster, cheaper, or safer than they look in the pitch deck. When you're staring at a Backbone 1.x app that runs your business, the right move is usually to have someone who actually understands it — not someone who'll spend three months learning on your dime.

01 — Continuity

Keep the lights on, without the panic.

Memory leaks, zombie views, event-binding chaos. We diagnose and fix the class of bugs Backbone apps develop in year seven, not just patch symptoms.

02 — Modernization

Incremental migration paths.

Strangler-fig patterns, micro-frontend wrappers, island-based React adoption. Move off Backbone at your pace — not with a doomed big-bang rewrite.

03 — Speed

No ramp-up tax.

Our engineers have shipped Backbone code this quarter, not this decade. PRs open in week one, not month two. You pay for work, not onboarding.

Core expertise

The deep stack we cover.

Backbone is a philosophy, not just a library.

It assumes you'll reach for Underscore, Marionette, RequireJS, jQuery — and it gets tangled fast when you don't. Our engineers work fluently across the whole ecosystem, plus the bridge tech needed to interop with modern stacks.

// Typical week, in anger:
const TaskView = Backbone.View.extend({
  events: {
    'click .done': 'toggle'
  },
  initialize() {
    this.listenTo(
      this.model, 'change', this.render
    );
  }
});
// → migrate, don't replace.
  1. 01 Views, Models & Collections Core
  2. 02 Marionette.js & Chaplin Framework
  3. 03 RequireJS / AMD migrations to ES modules Build
  4. 04 Underscore & Lodash, templating engines Core
  5. 05 jQuery interop, event delegation refactors Legacy
  6. 06 REST API design, sync / fetch patterns Backend
  7. 07 Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Vite toolchain upgrades Tooling
  8. 08 Incremental React / Vue / Svelte integration Modernize
  9. 09 Performance profiling & memory-leak hunting Ops
  10. 10 TypeScript retrofitting, test harness rescue Quality
How it works

From first call to first merged PR — in days.

No drawn-out sales cycle, no "talent matching platforms" hiding behind dashboards. You talk to engineers, not recruiters, and work starts when you're ready.

i.
Day 1 — 2

Discovery call

A short online conversation to understand your project, goals, and requirements. No lengthy forms — just a clear picture of what you need.

ii.
Day 3 — 5

Engineer match

We propose one or two senior engineers with direct experience on your problem class. You interview them. No proxies, no bait-and-switch.

iii.
Day 6 — 9

Paid trial sprint

Fixed-scope mini-engagement with a concrete deliverable. If the fit's wrong, you walk — no long-term commitment, no penalties.

iv.
Day 10 — 11

Ongoing work

Convert to a monthly retainer or project SOW. Weekly written updates, shared repo access, Slack co-presence, real engineering discipline.

Engagement models

Three ways to work with us.

Every codebase is different. Every team is different. Pick the shape that matches your actual situation — not what a pricing page tries to talk you into.

They inherited a Backbone app that had grown rings like a tree and instead of pitching us a rewrite, they gave us a four-week plan to pay it down.
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Lena Svensson
VP ENGINEERING · FINSTRAT
Common questions

Answers, without the fluff.

Missing something? Just ask — we reply within a business day, and the first reply is always from an engineer, not a bot.

Is it really worth maintaining a Backbone.js app nowadays?

For many apps, yes. Rewrites are expensive, risky, and often stall mid-project. If your Backbone app is earning revenue and the bug surface is manageable, targeted maintenance plus incremental modernization beats a rewrite almost every time. We'll tell you honestly if it doesn't.

How senior are your engineers, really?

Every engineer we place has at least 5 years of production JavaScript experience and at least 2 years of direct Backbone.js work. No juniors, no offshore agency shell games. You interview them before anything starts.

Can you migrate us off Backbone to React or Vue?

Yes, and we strongly prefer incremental migration. We wrap Backbone views inside React root components (or vice versa), strangler-fig the router, and move route-by-route. No two-year rewrite project. No frozen feature roadmap.

Do you work with our existing team?

Almost always. Our engineers embed directly — your standups, your PR review culture, your Slack. We explicitly pair with your in-house developers so knowledge stays with you after we leave.

What about NDAs, IP, and security?

Standard: mutual NDA before code access, all work-for-hire IP assignment, ISO 27001:2022 internal practices, SSO-managed tooling, background-checked staff. We regularly work inside financial, healthcare, and defense-adjacent codebases.

How quickly can we start?

For the right fit, within two weeks. The discovery-to-match window is typically 3–5 business days, followed by a paid trial sprint. If we don't have the right person we'll tell you upfront rather than stretching.

Let's get your Backbone app back on the rails.

Tell us what's breaking, what's slow, or what you're scared to touch. First conversation is 20 minutes, no pressure.

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