Frontend to backend, one owner
Hiring rounds often take weeks before anyone writes real code. What you usually need is one person who can own the architecture and the delivery from the first week.
Discovery stays short and specific: users, data, and risks. After that we build the critical path first and strengthen it from there.
We work best with founders and teams needing full-stack ownership who want a partner that ships. UI, APIs, auth, payments, and infrastructure delivered as a coherent product system.
What you get
- Complete product delivery
- API and database design
- Auth, billing, and realtime
- Maintainable TypeScript codebases
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your full stack developer, we run a shared backlog, design reviews, and engineering sprints, and you keep one point of contact throughout.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. The work for teams in Islamabad stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. On full stack development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For full stack developer work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- React
- the component model most teams can already hire for and maintain
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- Node.js
- one language across the stack, so context does not get lost at the boundary
- NestJS
- structure and dependency injection on the backend, which keeps a growing API from turning into a pile of route handlers
- Stripe
- payments, subscriptions, and the tax and invoicing edge cases you do not want to build
What the first weeks look like
- Days 1-3
Context and constraints
Codebase, deploy path, and what "done" means for the full stack development. Short, because the useful version of this is specific.
- Week 1
First shipped slice
Something real goes out in the first week — complete product delivery rather than a setup ticket.
- 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.
- 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 full stack development 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.
A local agency in Islamabad
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying Islamabad tech community around SaaS and AI-enabled products. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your full stack development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the full stack development 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
Medusa Ecommerce Store
Frontend · Medusa.js
Grocery ecommerce storefront on Medusa.js with Next.js, TypeScript, and API-driven catalog flows.
Stellar Stack ecommerce build focused on shopping UX and integrations across Medusa services and a Next.js storefront.
- · Medusa-powered catalog and checkout
- · TypeScript Next.js storefront
- · API and service integrations
- · Performance-minded product UX
Medusa.js · Next.js · TypeScript · React · Tailwind
Better Health Solutions
Frontend · CMS
Clinic website for Dr. Khayami with patient resources, scheduling UX, and educational video.
Responsive chiropractic practice site built at Code Band with Next.js, Redux Toolkit, Video.js, and Strapi content management.
- · Responsive clinic experience
- · Appointment-oriented UX
- · Patient education video
- · CMS-managed content
Next.js · Tailwind · Redux Toolkit · Strapi · Video.js
Happy Kids Dental
Frontend · CMS
Pediatric dental site with services, patient resources, and appointment-focused UX.
Code Band clinic product using Next.js, Tailwind, Redux Toolkit, Video.js, and Strapi for content and scheduling flows.
- · Pediatric service pages
- · Patient resource content
- · Appointment scheduling UX
- · Strapi-managed content
Next.js · Tailwind · Redux Toolkit · Strapi · Video.js
Working with teams in Islamabad
Islamabad tech community around SaaS and AI-enabled products. We work with clients in Islamabad remotely and keep overlapping hours in PKT. We usually collaborate in English/Urdu.
How we work with Islamabad teams
Arcode operates from Pakistan, so Islamabad clients get full working-day overlap and in-person meetings when a project benefits from them.
What Islamabad clients usually need
Islamabad briefs come from a mix of funded startups building for export markets and established businesses replacing manual processes with software that actually gets used.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in PKR locally. Where a product targets US or UK users, we build against those compliance and payment expectations from the first sprint rather than adapting afterwards.
