Who's behind RedFire?
Carl Owens
Carl is a software engineer, educator and project manager. He excels at tackling challenges, devising strategic plans, and delivering meticulously crafted solutions.
Graham Owens
Graham is deeply passionate about understanding the intricacies of technology. He consistently immerses himself in new technologies, mastering their complexities to provide invaluable expertise to every project.
Liverpool Web Development & Software Engineering Experts
Our journey started in large software companies, where we developed high-performance e-commerce websites for major corporations. While the experience was invaluable, we craved more innovation and direct impact.
Determined to bring expert web development and software engineering to businesses of all sizes, we shifted our focus to helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Liverpool overcome real-world challenges with custom web applications, business software, and mobile app solutions.
Along the way, we learned the importance of diversification. A key lesson came when a long-term client, with whom we had informal arrangements, made a significant business decision that impacted our perceived shares. This reinforced the need to work with a broader range of industries and partners.
Today, we provide bespoke software development across various industries, including construction, manufacturing, automotive, and education. Our core expertise includes:
- Custom Website Development – From simple business sites to advanced PHP and Symfony-based platforms.
- Mobile & Web App Development – High-performance applications built with Flutter, JavaScript, and Laravel.
- Project Rescue / Legacy Project – We have knowledge of many older frameworks such as Zend, Symfony 1, Magento, Wordpress and many more.
- Business Process Automation – Streamlining your operations with tailored software solutions.
We’re passionate about crafting efficient, scalable, and affordable web and mobile applications. Unlike large agencies, we offer a personalized, hands-on approach to software development. Whether you need a custom website, a Symfony-powered web application, or a Flutter mobile app, our team has the expertise to deliver.
If you're looking for Liverpool-based web developers or software engineers who specialize in PHP, Symfony, and Flutter app development, get in touch today!
Our Approach
Act, Assess, Adjust, Repeat
Adapting to feedback and the demands of your customers is vital. We must ensure we continuously examine trends and behavior to best place your business in the market.
Feedback
Through direct communication, analytics, payments, conversion rates etc, we are constantly getting feedback. This all needs to be packaged in a digestible way so that new insights can be gleamed.
Explore
Have an idea on how to increase sales? Let try it out and implement that feature / journey. We measure the previous results against the new and so can see how to improve.
Software Development
The value in software comes from it doing what it is meant to do, and in it’s ability to be changed at low cost.
Agile Practices
We work in small iterations to provide you with continuous delivery and the opportunity to change course if things are not as you hoped. Transparency, communication, simplicity, feedback, courage are the core ideals we strive towards.
Scoping and Budgeting
We provide a costed view of the whole app - with “must haves”, “should haves” and “nice to haves”. We guide the project by focusing in what provides the maximum ROI for the cheapest cost.
Risk Analysis
You need to know where the risks are when going into a project. For this we provide clear communication around budget, schedule, performance and user adoption risks.
Domain Driven Development
Making the core functionality central to our applications allows us to make changes easily and cheaply while also providing a clear architecture for our systems.
Test Driven Development
Writing failing tests before actually creating the functionality drives the best software design and forces us to think though a solutions thoroughly.