About

What we do

Most of our client work is on PHP and Symfony platforms, the APIs around them and the cloud infrastructure they run on. Clients bring us in to build features, upgrade code that has fallen behind, review what they have, or lead a team through a delivery.

We also build our own apps. Irkless, a task manager, is close to its production release, and more are in development. The two halves feed each other: client work keeps us close to real production problems, and our products keep us using current tools.

How we work

Senior hands on the work

The people who scope an engagement also do it. Nothing is passed down a chain.

Written terms, plain scope

Every engagement runs under our terms of business, with a fixed price or a statement of work agreed before work starts.

Leave it better documented

Code, infrastructure and decisions are written down so your team can carry on without us.

We ship our own software

Building and running our own products keeps our engineering current and our judgement honest.

Technical depth

Tools we've used in production, grouped. Not a list of everything we've ever touched.

Languages: PHP 8.x
JavaScript
SQL
Python
Ruby
HTML
CSS
Frameworks: Symfony
API Platform
Doctrine
Twig
Slim
React
Vue
Node.js
Data: MySQL
MariaDB
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Elasticsearch
Cassandra
Kafka
Cloud and infrastructure: AWS
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
Linux
nginx
Apache
Delivery: GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
PHPUnit
Behat
Playwright
Cypress
PHPStan

Company details

Legal name: Horizonware Ltd
Registered in: England and Wales
Company number: 06385512
Incorporated: 1 October 2007
Registered office: Apollo House, Hallam Way, Whitehills Business Park, Blackpool, FY4 5FS, United Kingdom
VAT number: GB 310 5016 68
Insurance: Professional indemnity and public liability
Email: hello@horizonware.co.uk