App Router expertise that ships
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.
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.
If that sounds like your situation, Arcode is set up for teams hiring a specialist Next.js developer. Next.js App Router, server components, metadata, and production deployment patterns.
What you get
- App Router architectures
- SSR/SSG/ISR strategy
- SEO metadata systems
- Edge-ready deployments
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your Next.js 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 Birmingham 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 Next.js 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 Next.js developer work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- React
- the component model most teams can already hire for and maintain
- TypeScript
- types across the whole stack, which catches the class of bug that only shows up in production
- Vercel
- preview deploys on every branch, so review happens on a real URL instead of a screenshot
- Tailwind
- design decisions stay in the markup, so the CSS does not grow faster than the product
What the first weeks look like
- Days 1-3
Context and constraints
Codebase, deploy path, and what "done" means for the Next.js development. Short, because the useful version of this is specific.
- Week 1
First shipped slice
Something real goes out in the first week — app router architectures 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 Next.js 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 Birmingham
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying Birmingham businesses investing in websites, apps, and automation. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your Next.js development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the Next.js 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
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
Case Management Hub
Full-stack engineer · NestJS · Next.js
HIPAA-compliant healthcare SaaS for 150+ US organizations, with dual databases, realtime collaboration, billing, and secure client portals.
Enterprise case management platform for healthcare and social-work organizations with encryption, realtime messaging, Stripe billing, Zoom, and calendar sync.
- · HIPAA-ready architecture with encryption and audit logging
- · Realtime collaboration via Socket.io + Redis
- · Client portal and role-based access control
- · Stripe billing and document workflows
Next.js · NestJS · TypeScript · MongoDB · Redis · Socket.io
Working with teams in Birmingham
Birmingham businesses investing in websites, apps, and automation. We work with clients in Birmingham remotely and keep overlapping hours in GMT/BST. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with Birmingham teams
Birmingham shares our working day on GMT/BST. Questions raised in your morning get answered the same morning, which matters more than it sounds once a build is moving quickly.
What Birmingham clients usually need
Birmingham work is weighted towards established firms — professional services, manufacturing, and logistics — replacing manual processes with something web-based, plus the occasional customer-facing app.
Contracts, data, and compliance
Much of this work touches systems people already depend on, so migrations get a rollback plan and a parallel-running period rather than a cutover date. Invoicing is in GBP under UK GDPR.
