Senior full-stack product engineering
Splitting work across several freelancers creates handoff problems. Keeping it with one accountable engineer or small pod protects both quality and pace.
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
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your software engineer, 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. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. On software engineering projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. The work for teams in Austin stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. You see progress on the critical path every week.
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
- 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.
- Week 1
First shipped slice
Something real goes out in the first week — scalable web applications 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 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.
A local agency in Austin
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying Austin tech scene favoring end-to-end product builders. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your software engineering, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
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
Brain CMS
Frontend · Firebase · Analytics
Multi-module enterprise CMS with documents, calendars, video, and advanced analytics.
Content and operations system spanning enterprise modules with Firebase and rich media tooling.
- · Multi-module business domains
- · PDF and document management
- · Advanced charting suites
- · Calendar and media workflows
React · Redux Saga · Firebase · Chart.js · Video.js
Lengju Deildin
Realtime frontend · GraphQL
Live football league experience with sockets, GraphQL, and YouTube stream widgets.
Automated league app built at Stellar Stack with live scores, widgets, and stream integrations for higher fan engagement.
- · Realtime score updates
- · YouTube live widgets
- · GraphQL data layer
- · Automated league data views
React · GraphQL · Apollo · WebSockets · Firebase
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
Working with teams in Austin
Austin tech scene favoring end-to-end product builders. We work with clients in Austin remotely and keep overlapping hours in CST/CDT. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with Austin teams
Austin is ten to eleven hours behind us, so your morning is our late afternoon. One scheduled call a day covers the synchronous part; everything else runs on a shared backlog and written updates.
What Austin clients usually need
Austin briefs are mostly seed-to-Series-A products that need to ship before the next raise, plus a steady run of AI and developer-tooling work that suits the city's engineering density.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in USD under US contractor agreements with IP assignment. Texas has no state privacy regime as strict as California's, but most Austin clients sell nationally, so we build to the stricter standard anyway.
