Software development · Portland, OR
Software development for Portland companies
Portland is athletic and outdoor apparel headquartered along the west side, semiconductor manufacturing in Hillsboro that gave the corridor its Silicon Forest name, and a consumer brand base that sells worldwide from one metro.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ people, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Lake Oswego
Commerce and product platforms for brands that ship worldwide, and the supply chain systems behind them, where a multi-step process across factories, carriers and warehouses must never half-complete.
AzureTechFabric is a Databricks partner with an award-winning Databricks engineering team, 80 of them Databricks-certified, and a Temporal partner. Where a system reaches past the workspace we build on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
What software development covers
Web applications
Applications built to be changed safely years after the original team has moved on. That means tests that mean something, seams where the business logic can move, and a deployment nobody is afraid of.
Mobile applications
iOS and Android, built as products rather than as ports. The maintenance story is decided at the start, while it is still cheap.
APIs and integration
The seams between systems, done once and properly. Most of the expensive failures we are called into are integration failures wearing another name.
Data platforms
The layer underneath the application, on Databricks, Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. If the reporting and the application disagree, the platform is the reason.
Modernisation of what exists
Often the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell a rewrite you may not need.
Durable, auditable workflows
Processes that take days, call several systems and must never half-complete. Getting that right is a different discipline from getting a request handler right, and it is where we spend most of our time.
App development in Portland
Consumer apps for brands with a global launch calendar, and the internal tools for design, planning and the factory floor behind them. We build the app and the backend to hold up on launch day, with staged rollout so a bad build reaches hundreds rather than millions.
Mobile app developmentClients we have done this for
Funko's commerce and warehouse systems are a consumer brand at global scale, from the storefront to the pick list. The same shape as the brands here.
Warehouse management
Funko
A warehouse management system built to cut operating expense, reduce reliance on manual work, and double throughput efficiency.
Consumer data carries the rules now
The Oregon Consumer Privacy Act took effect in 2024 and a brand selling nationally answers to California's as well. A system that can say what it holds about a person, delete it on request and prove both is cheaper to build than to retrofit, and that is a data model decision rather than a policy page.
None of that is unusual for Portland, and none of it is a reason to build slowly. It is a reason to decide where the evidence comes from before the first handler is written, because the alternative is reconstructing it later from logs that were not designed to answer the question.
How an engagement runs
01
A technical conversation
Not a sales call. An engineer, asking what you are trying to do, what has been tried and what it will actually take. Where the work needs them, product and design people join the same conversation.
02
Two weeks, fixed fee
A short assessment ending in a written plan with a scope, a sequence and a number. You own the document whether or not you carry on with us.
03
Build with your team in the repo
Senior throughout, and no pyramid with one architect over a floor of juniors. The person in your standup is the person writing the code.
04
Run it
We stay on the pager. Nobody designs a fragile thing they will personally be woken by, which is most of why this arrangement produces different software.
Two weeks, fixed fee, and a written plan whether or not you build it with us.
Headquarters
1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201Gilbert, AZ 85295
Phone
+1 (480) 681-6806Also
Amsterdam, Dnipro, Hyderabad
Working hours
Portland business hours, most days
FAQ
Software development in Portland: common questions
Do you work with Portland companies?
Yes, and with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so from March to November we are on the same clock as you and from November to March we are an hour ahead. Either way the working day overlaps almost completely.
Do you have an office in Portland?
The office is in Gilbert, Arizona, with teams in Amsterdam, Dnipro and Hyderabad. Delivery is remote or hybrid, and we travel for discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.
Can you build a consumer platform that satisfies state privacy laws?
Yes, by making the data model answer the questions the laws ask: what we hold about a person, where it came from, who has read it, and how it is deleted.
Access resolves at read time through the catalogue, the event trail shows every use, and a deletion request is a workflow that finishes. Your counsel defines the obligation and we build the system that meets it.
What kinds of custom software do you build?
Web applications, mobile applications, APIs and the data platforms underneath them. The work we do best is the sort that has to be governed and auditable, where a wrong write is expensive and somebody has to be able to explain afterwards what changed and why.
Do you take over an existing codebase?
Often, yes. A good part of the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell you a rewrite you may not need.
Software development elsewhere
Other metros we publish this for. The full list is here.
New York, NY
New York, Brooklyn, Queens
Boston, MA
Boston, Cambridge, Somerville
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, Alpharetta, Marietta
Miami, FL
Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Coral Gables
Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, King of Prussia, Wilmington
Detroit, MI
Detroit, Ann Arbor, Dearborn
Tampa, FL
Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater
Chicago, IL
Chicago, Naperville, Evanston