Software engineering

For teams tackling real-world problems

We are staff engineers who join your team to improve how you build, not just what you build. Our goal is simple: leave your software and your team in a better place than we found them.

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Software engineering

We don't just improve your software, we care about the team as well

And that's no easy feat

We work on software that already has users, history, and opinions. The kind where every change can break something, and “just rewrite it” is not an option. Our staff engineers join your team to unlock progress again.

We ❤️ legacy

Most of our work happens in brownfield and legacy systems. Code that's been around and accumulated debt, but still needs to perform. We are obsessed with quality. Cleaning up what matters while shipping real features gives us the thrills.

Leading staff engineers

Our engineers lead by doing. They write code, improve systems and refine processes. Evolving great products is insanely complex and since 2008, we have been cleaning up codebases. We join with a clear plan to leave and when we are done, the waters are calmer, the team is stronger, and progress is predictable again.

Why companies call us in

And why they keep our number

You don't call us when everything's going great. You call us when things kind of work, but don't feel right anymore. When progress feels heavier than it should. When everyone's busy, but somehow nothing really moves. That's usually the moment teams need fewer opinions and more clarity.

And if we think we're not the right fit, we'll say that too.

A digital dashboard to better manage your entire fleet

GearJot

A digital dashboard to better manage your entire fleet

We helped GearJot stabilize and launch its collaborative asset management platform by conducting extensive quality assurance, removing buggy features, developing a focused product roadmap, and implementing essential monitoring tools, resulting in a stable, market-ready application.

"After auditing our product, madewithlove made the bold recommendation to rebuild our platform from scratch. This allowed us to bring much-needed security upgrades and modern architectures to our previous software tool that was very outdated. They also provided structure and efficient management to our development process. In one year, their developers and interim CTO have transformed the development process, delivered on our product roadmap and managed to build a product that is performant, scalable and qualitative. Between the launch and today, we have had literally zero critical bugs and no downtime that was related to their work. The platform is now highly functional, and the balance between complexity and practicality in engineering decisions is spot on. I especially appreciated their short lines of communication, professionalism, pragmatic approach, and strategic thinking. We are now ready for the next phase and becoming more independent."

Jef Daniels
Impact Us Today / CEO

Rolling out new features takes too long.

Stalled velocity? We love getting our hands dirty - simplifying processes, and enhancing the developer experience so your team can ship with confidence again.

Learning from OSS: configuring your Link component via a Provider (Braid)

Learn how SEEK’s Braid Design System uses a linkComponent provider to flexibly support routing across React apps. A great pattern for design systems, and one madewithlove engineers keep coming back to when building scalable front-end libraries.

Geoffrey Dhuyvetters

"Madewithlove has been a fantastic partner for over two years. They helped us scale our team and build a future-proof platform that grows with our business. Their expertise in scalable architecture, pragmatic approach and overall professionalism has been key to our success. Highly recommended!"

Arnout Van de Meulebroucke
Phished / CTO

A Rubber Duck’s Guide to Better Engineering

Professor Quacks reminds us that curiosity, accountability, and good teamwork are the bedrock of great engineering.

Charlotte Emma Grace

We keep rewriting instead of improving.

The urge to rewrite is strong. We resist it. Stabilise, improve, ship.

Our product is full of bugs.

We make brittle systems solid. Better testing, monitoring and code that holds up under pressure.

The enshittification of the internet: are you building value or friction?

AI agents shouldn’t become CAPTCHA solvers: discover how monetisation-driven UX patterns have turned the web into a hostile environment and what honest design can do to reverse the trend.

Yannick De Pauw

From chatbots to AI agents: What do you need to know?

AI agents aren’t just chatbots. They observe, plan, and act to solve problems across systems. Powerful for workflows but costly and prone to errors, their value comes from tackling focused business problems, not the hype.

Emma Williams

Our company is scaling fast, but the software isn't.

Scaling exposes the cracks. We strengthen your systems and evolve your people so scaling is not chaos.

🌶️ SaaS startups should never use microservices. Like, never-ever.

Many SaaS startups over-engineer their architecture with microservices. Here's why that's usually a costly mistake—and what to do instead.

Mike Veerman

Our best engineers are drowning.

Too much on too few shoulders? We embed, pair, and knowledge-share until your team has no bottlenecks.

Keeping buildings and spaces in good, safe and clean condition

Fixform

Keeping buildings and spaces in good, safe and clean condition

After their technical co-founder departed unexpectedly, we stepped in with two staff engineers to build a quality-first MVP using Inertia.js, Vue, and Laravel. We established robust CI/CD pipelines, implemented comprehensive testing, and mentored the team through knowledge transfer.

Guiding recently graduated students in their job search

VDAB

Guiding recently graduated students in their job search

We partnered with MONO to design and develop Vick, a digital platform that guides recently graduated students in their job search. We built both a web application and API infrastructure, integrating multiple databases and creating innovative features like password-free login.

We've lost sight of priorities.

When everything's urgent, nothing moves. We align product vision and teams to end firefighting.

Frequently asked questions

We don't take over—we join. Our engineers embed directly into your team, pairing with your developers, reviewing architecture, and introducing better practices. The goal isn't to replace anyone. It's to leave your team stronger than we found them.