Software engineering

Build and run bespoke, high-quality software designed for you

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Accelerate time to value with modern software engineering practices that drive efficiency, security, and compliance. Whether you’re evolving existing systems or building new ones, we help you deliver high-quality software that’s secure, resilient and scalable.

With a focus on continuous delivery, operability and observability, we partner with you to streamline development cycles and create software that enhances innovation, reduces risk, and maximises business impact.

What we do

Continuous delivery

Shorten feedback loops and release with confidence, moving your team from weekly to daily to continuous delivery. By embedding testing, automation and collaboration into the development process, we reduce rework and decrease time-to-value.

AI-accelerated software engineering

We guide organisations through the uncertainty of AI adoption—combining engineering discipline and practical strategy to unlock real value.

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You Build It, You Run It

Accelerate your time to market, reduce the cost of failure and strengthen your culture with the You Build It, You Run It operating model.

Read our You Build It, You Run It Playbook

Secure delivery

Reduce the likelihood and impact of cyber attacks, improve regulatory compliance and accelerate outcomes with secure delivery.

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Reliability engineering

Focusing on digital service management from the outset, including performance, scalability, observability and much more. We ensure your systems can meet tomorrow’s challenges

Why Equal Experts?

We don’t just build software, we help you make it work for your business in the real world. Our consultants bring decades of hands-on experience working in complex organisations on high-stakes software delivery projects. We combine deep engineering expertise and knowledge of best practices with a pragmatic mindset, enabling you to modernise safely, scale sustainably and deliver confidently.

We work with you to understand your existing systems, constraints and goals, bringing empathy and respect for what has come before as we help you evolve your existing technology estate.

Our modern software engineering principles of continuous delivery, operability and security are woven into everything we do. It means the software we build together is long-lasting, secure and scalable, ready to grow and adapt with your business.

How we help our clients with software engineering

bank card phishing finance fraud

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Beating ecommerce fraud at scale

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FinOps best practices reverse runaway cloud spend for leading European insurance provider

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Scaling You Build It You Run It at John Lewis & Partners

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Transforming external integrations with event-driven architecture at Spirit Super

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Speeding up delivery of an ecommerce monolith

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Scaling agile: How Pret went from high street icon to online innovator

With over 30 years in IT, and 10 years leading Operations teams, it’s been hard for me to let go of having direct control of a single Ops team. However, I’ve been amazed that You Build It You Run It has provided a step change compared to traditional ITIL best practice, and the outcomes we’ve demonstrated speak for themselves.

Simon Skelton
Platform & Operations Manager , John Lewis & Partners

Insights

AI-assisted discovery in legacy systems: architecture diagrams, user journeys, and repo documentation

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Accelerating discovery with AI: A developer’s shortcut to system understanding

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Preventing cyberattacks using a threat-led strategy

retail commerce store inventory

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How composable commerce drives resilience and scalability in modern retail platforms

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How to improve your time to value

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Building high performing applications: Insights from the Application Strategy Summit

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Build secure, scalable software that delivers lasting value

Contact Equal Experts to see how our software engineering expertise can help you deliver faster, with confidence.