Backend API Engineering
Ship maintainable applications and APIs.
Build your team's capacity to design, test, package, and deploy production-grade applications and APIs using professional software-engineering practices.
Capability Outcome
What your team will be able to do
Your team will write maintainable Python code, build tested applications and REST APIs, and deploy them reliably to production environments.
Program Structure
A structured capability-development pathway
The program progresses through a structured sequence of modules, combining technical instruction with practical application to develop capabilities your team can use in its day-to-day work.
Python
Programming Fundamentals
Object-Oriented Programming
Testing
Package Engineering
PostgreSQL
FastAPI
API Engineering
Deployment
Applied Project
Production Python Application
Your team designs, builds, tests, packages, and deploys a maintainable Python application or API that meets production engineering standards.
Capability Areas
Capabilities developed
The technical and professional capabilities covered throughout the pathway.
Python
Develop practical programming skills for writing clear, efficient, and maintainable code that meets production requirements.
Programming Fundamentals
Build a strong foundation in programming concepts, problem solving, control flow, functions, and data structures.
Object-Oriented Programming
Design software using classes, objects, encapsulation, inheritance, abstraction, and polymorphism.
Testing
Build reliable software by systematically verifying behavior through automated and structured tests.
Package Engineering
Design, develop, test, document, and distribute reusable software packages.
PostgreSQL
Design and work with reliable relational databases for applications, analytics, and data systems.
FastAPI
Build high-performance Python APIs with validation, documentation, and production-ready web services.
API Engineering
Design, develop, test, document, and maintain reliable APIs for integrating software systems.
Deployment
Deploy applications and services reliably into environments where they can be operated and maintained.
Intended Participants
Designed for organizational teams
This pathway can be delivered to existing teams, professional groups, or mixed cohorts based on your organization's capability requirements.
Organizational Training
Build the capabilities your organization needs.
Work with Stemfard to deliver this pathway for your team, customize the curriculum around your workflows, or develop a broader capability-building program.