Arcode · Software Engineer · Remote worldwide

Fractional CTO Services

Looking for fractional CTO services? Arcode builds software engineering for remote and worldwide teams and adapts to how your product already works, from discovery through launch.

  • Scalable web applications
  • Clean architecture and APIs
  • Performance and accessibility

Senior full-stack product engineering

A job description rarely describes the real risk in a product. It helps to work with someone who has already built something similar.

We start with your constraints and what success looks like, then build in short demos so everyone can react to working software instead of documents.

Most people who reach this page are companies hiring a proven software engineer. End-to-end ownership across React/Next.js, NestJS, databases, and cloud.

What you get

  • Scalable web applications
  • Clean architecture and APIs
  • Performance and accessibility
  • Remote-ready collaboration
  • Documented handover and runbooks
  • Help getting it deployed

How engagement works

Our software engineering service covers discovery, build, and launch, with the option to keep improving things once you are live.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. You see progress on the critical path every week.

  2. 02

    Design

    System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.

  3. 03

    Build

    Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. On software engineering projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.

  4. 04

    Launch

    Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. The work for remote and worldwide teams stays tied to the outcome you asked for.

How we build it, and why

The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For software engineer work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.

TypeScript
types across the whole stack, which catches the class of bug that only shows up in production
Next.js
server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
NestJS
structure and dependency injection on the backend, which keeps a growing API from turning into a pile of route handlers
PostgreSQL
relational integrity for data you cannot afford to get wrong
AWS
the services you grow into, once a managed platform stops being enough

What the first weeks look like

  1. Days 1-3

    Context and constraints

    Codebase, deploy path, and what "done" means for the software engineering. Short, because the useful version of this is specific.

  2. Week 1

    First shipped slice

    Something real goes out in the first week — scalable web applications rather than a setup ticket.

  3. Weeks 2-6

    Build to the milestone

    Pull requests, reviews, and weekly demos. You see the work as it happens rather than at a handover meeting.

  4. Handover

    Documented and transferable

    Runbooks, architecture notes, and a walkthrough, so the work does not depend on us still being here.

Weighing up your options

There are three realistic ways to get this built. Each is the right answer for someone.

A solo freelancer

Cheapest per hour and fine for a contained task. The risk on software engineering is breadth — one person covering design, backend, infrastructure, and launch usually means one of them is weak, and there is no cover when they are unavailable.

An in-house hire

A permanent engineer is the right call once the software engineering is continuous rather than a project. Before that point you are paying a salary, recruiting for months, and carrying the risk that the first hire is the wrong shape for the problem.

Arcode

A small senior team. The people who scope the software engineering write the code, you get weekly demos instead of status decks, and the engagement ends when the thing is live and handed over.

Work we have shipped

StudioX Localization

Frontend · i18n

UI polish and language translation pages for the StudioX product experience.

Contract contribution implementing UI fixes and localization pages with Next.js, React, and Tailwind to improve accessibility and multi-language use.

  • · Language translation pages
  • · UI accessibility fixes
  • · Next.js page delivery
  • · Clearer multi-language UX

Next.js · React · Tailwind

React Email Templates

Email systems · Resend

Reusable React Email templates sent through Resend for production transactional mail.

Freelance email kit using React Email, Resend, TypeScript, and Tailwind to create and send branded emails from a React app.

  • · Reusable email templates
  • · Resend delivery integration
  • · TypeScript-safe composition
  • · Tailwind-styled layouts

React Email · Resend · TypeScript · Tailwind

Horizan Labs

Frontend · Internship

Marketing website contribution during the Arsol internship, focused on responsive UI and frontend delivery.

Early-career site work at Arsol using React, Next.js, and Tailwind to help ship the Horizan Labs web presence with the team.

  • · Responsive marketing pages
  • · Team-based frontend delivery
  • · Modern React/Next stack
  • · UI performance and accessibility focus

React · Next.js · Tailwind · MySQL

Where we work

Fully remote engagements across time zones. We work remote-first, so the time zone matters less than keeping updates clear and regular. We usually collaborate in English.

How we work with Remote worldwide teams

Remote-first engagements run on written updates, a shared backlog, and a weekly demo call. We keep at least four hours of overlap with whichever time zone you work in, and everything else happens asynchronously so nobody waits on a meeting to unblock work.

What Remote worldwide clients usually need

Most remote briefs arrive as a rough product idea with a deadline attached. The first job is separating the slice that has to ship from the rest of the roadmap.

Contracts, data, and compliance

Contracts are milestone-based, invoiced against agreed deliverables. Code lives in your repository from the first commit, so there is no handover cliff if you take the work in-house later.

Related work

A few projects that line up with software engineering.

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    Platform

    Case Management Hub

    HIPAA-compliant healthcare SaaS for 150+ US organizations, with dual databases, realtime collaboration, billing, and secure client portals.

  • Circlin Waitlist

    Product

    Circlin Waitlist

    Multilingual waitlist and referral product for a secondhand fashion brand, covering localization, analytics, and growth loops.

  • VIP Hires

    Product

    VIP Hires

    Recruitment platform with Stripe payments, workflow management, and polished motion-driven UI.

Next step

You can skip the usual agency pitch. Tell Arcode what you need and leave the call with a clearer build path.