Connect Digital

Three companies merged to form Connect Digital, pooling 20 years of combined expertise into a Lisbon-based practice that builds websites, apps, and software for clients across banking, sport, aviation, and ticketing. Banco de Portugal turned to the team for a full-cycle transformation of its website into a scalable, user-centric platform. Benfica's official fan-engagement app runs on work delivered here, and Swiss Aviation relies on a maintenance repair operation software build. A ticketing platform facing explosive growth and a SaaS identity search product built around data analytics round out the client list.

The build cycle runs from ideation and service design through user experience, user interface, and motion design into experience engineering, followed by accessibility and usability optimisation, custom CMS implementation, and design system rollout. Development covers headless and decoupled architectures, mobile and cross-platform builds, and technical SEO and performance optimisation, with frontend development, backend development, and quality assurance running underneath. Clients pick from Extension Team, Dedicated Team, or Turnkey Project models depending on how much of the build stays in-house.

Under the Extension Team model, clients keep control of project priorities while augmenting existing staff rather than replacing them. Development Managers step in on complex tasks to guide integration, and teams scale up or down as project demands shift. Open roles for a SecDevOps Engineer and a .NET Full Stack Developer, both hybrid positions based in Lisbon, point to continued hiring behind these engagement models.