Build & Rescue
Senior Rails capacity,
when you need it most.
Your product is live. You have traction and budget. What you need now is a senior Rails team that can step in, move fast, and raise the bar — without burning cycles on onboarding or oversight.
Two Tracks, One Team
Extend your team
or fix what's slowing it down
Whether you need senior Rails capacity alongside your existing engineers, or a team to stabilize a platform that's accumulated years of technical debt — we embed fast and operate at your level.
Track A
Product Development Partner
Your product is live and growing. You need a senior Rails team to build new features, scale infrastructure, and maintain a high bar for code quality — without the overhead of hiring.
1
Codebase Orientation
We spend the first week reading your code, not asking you to explain it.
2
Embedded Sprint Delivery
We slot into your existing workflow — Jira, Linear, GitHub, whatever you use.
3
Architecture & Code Quality
We raise the floor on every PR we touch. Documentation and test coverage improve as we go.
4
Scaling Infrastructure
Performance, background jobs, caching, database indexing — we handle infrastructure concerns.
Track B
Tech Rescue & Stabilization
Your platform has grown, but so has the technical debt. Performance is degrading, deploys are risky, and your team is firefighting instead of building.
1
Technical Audit
We map your architecture, identify the highest-cost decisions, and quantify what each is costing you in delivery speed and reliability.
2
Phased Modernization Plan
A prioritized roadmap that lets you continue shipping features while systematically reducing technical debt. No big-bang rewrites.
3
Incremental Refactoring
We fix the worst problems first — performance bottlenecks, flaky tests, security issues — while keeping production stable.
4
Test Coverage & CI/CD
We expand your test suite and harden your deployment pipeline so each modernization step is verified before it ships.
Deliverables
What you walk away with
🏗
Production-Ready Rails App
Clean architecture, test coverage, CI/CD pipeline, deployment-ready. Not a prototype — a real, maintainable product.
📋
Technical Documentation
Architecture diagrams, deployment runbook, environment setup guide, and data model docs. Your team can maintain it independently.
🧪
Test Suite
RSpec unit and integration tests, CI integration. We either build it from scratch or expand your existing coverage.
🎨
UX/UI Design Assets
Figma files, component library, and responsive design system — handed off cleanly for future use.
🔒
Security Baseline
Brakeman clean, gem audit passing, auth flows reviewed. No known vulnerabilities at launch.
📈
Scaling Roadmap
A written plan for what to build next, what to optimize, and what architecture decisions to make as you grow.
Who It's For
Is this the right fit?
📈
Growth-stage companies scaling their platform
You have product-market fit and need to ship faster without breaking what's working. We add senior Rails capacity without the hiring lag.
🏢
Enterprises with mission-critical Rails apps
Your Rails platform is core to the business. You need a team that operates at that level — with the reliability, security standards, and communication to match.
⚙️
Engineering teams that need senior backup
Your in-house team is strong but stretched. We embed alongside them — handling architecture decisions, complex features, or modernization work they don't have bandwidth for.
🔁
Companies replacing an underperforming vendor
You've outgrown your current agency — slow delivery, poor code quality, or lack of Rails depth. We take over cleanly with a structured handoff process.
Case Study - Travel Tech
Safari Portal
Itinerary builder for luxury safari operators. JetRockets built the full platform from scratch — complex scheduling, client portals, real-time operator dashboards.
"JetRockets is so much more than a dev team — they are a core part of Safari Portal and of our family. They truly care about the product."
Why JetRockets
How we compare to the alternatives
| What you need | JetRockets | Freelancer | Big agency | In-house hire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rails depth (15+ yrs) | Yes | Maybe | Varies | Rare |
| Predictable delivery | Yes | Risky | Slow | Variable |
| No onboarding lag | Week 1 | 2-3 weeks | 1-2 months | 3-6 months |
| Full team (dev+design+QA) | Included | You manage | Yes | You hire |
| Transparent pricing | Fixed or monthly | Varies | Opaque | Salary + benefits |
| Women-owned, NYC-based | Yes | — | — | — |
Free Scorecard
Not ready to talk yet? Start with a number.
Twenty questions that tell you how much of your slowdown is code, how much is process, and which one to fix first.
FAQ
Common questions
Typically within 1-2 weeks of a signed agreement. We can begin a discovery session or triage audit even sooner if urgency requires it.
Rails is our primary backend framework, but we also work with React, React Native, and Flutter on the frontend and mobile side. We don't take on projects outside the Rails ecosystem.
Rescue projects vary based on the state of the codebase. We typically start with a paid 2-4 week triage audit ($7,500-$15,000) that results in a full stabilization plan. Ongoing remediation is scoped from there.
Yes. We frequently embed alongside in-house teams — providing senior Rails capacity, architecture guidance, or code review without disrupting your existing workflow.
The co-founders stay. Every JetRockets engagement is led by the co-founders rather than handed to a junior team once the contract is signed, so the people who understand your architecture and your business context do not change when a developer rotates off. People move between teams at every agency, ours included. The question worth asking a prospective partner is not whether that ever happens — it is whether the knowledge walks out of the door with them. Our engagement model is built so that it does not.
We can pick up mid-stream. We'll do a quick audit of the existing code before scoping, so there are no surprises on either side. Partial builds are common — we're comfortable with them.
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Let's talk about
your Rails platform.
Tell us about your stack, team size, and what's blocking you. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit — and what an engagement would look like.
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