Services

Code Review & Architecture Audits

$175.00 / hour

A senior second opinion on your codebase or system design: risks found, fixes prioritized, and the reasoning explained.

Code Review & Architecture Audits artwork

Fresh senior eyes, before it gets expensive

Every codebase accumulates decisions nobody chose on purpose. An audit is the cheapest moment to catch them: before the rewrite, before the scaling wall, before the security incident. We read your code and your architecture the way we review our own, and we hand you a prioritized, honest report.

What this includes

  • Codebase review. Correctness risks, maintainability hot spots, dependency health, and the patterns quietly fighting your team.
  • Architecture audit. Data flow, service boundaries, scaling assumptions, and single points of failure, mapped and challenged.
  • Security pass. Auth flows, secret handling, input validation, and the common failure classes that actually get exploited.
  • Performance review. Where the time and memory really go, measured rather than guessed.
  • Prioritized report. Findings ranked by severity and effort, each with a concrete recommendation, so the report turns into a roadmap instead of a shelf document.

How we work

  1. Scope. We agree on the systems under review and the questions keeping you up at night.
  2. Review. Senior engineers read the code, run the system, and take notes with file-level references.
  3. Report. A written, prioritized findings document plus a live walkthrough where you can challenge everything.
  4. Follow-through. If you want the fixes implemented, our engineering service picks the roadmap up seamlessly.

Who this is for

Teams about to scale or refactor, founders doing technical due diligence, studios inheriting a codebase, and engineering leads who want a rigorous outside perspective without a consulting-firm engagement.

Why Jalapeno Labs

We review like owners, not auditors ticking boxes: every finding comes with the fix we would actually make. Led directly by senior engineers and billed transparently by the hour.

Let us take a look

Tell us what you are worried about on the contact page and we will scope the review with you.

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Ready to start code review & architecture audits?

Tell us about your project and we will scope it with you. Code Review & Architecture Audits is billed at $175.00 / hour, with a clear estimate before any work begins.