Have you ever looked at a backlog full of small fixes that everyone agrees should be done and nobody has time for? We do, and now the software factory is taking a bite on them

We're a Stockholm fintech with ~40 engineers powering recurring payments across Europe, running on a AWS stack using Kubernetes, serverless, and Python (alongside some legacy PHP). Our developers spend their time on the deliveries that matter, like new markets, complex features and regulatory work. The low-hanging fruit kept lying around in the backlog, and every week someone asked when it would get picked up and by next week there is even more getting added.

So, we built a software factory. Software what? Well, you describe a piece of work in a Jira ticket or in Slack, a coding agent does the work in our codebase in a cloud environment, and you get a pull request.

The part we built by hand

The first version was a chicken-and-egg problem.…