Senior full-stack product engineering
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.
If that sounds like your situation, Arcode is set up for 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. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 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.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. The work for teams in Dubai 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
- 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 Dubai
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying Dubai brands investing in premium digital products and AI. 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
Prism Goals
Frontend · Strapi CMS
Accountability platform with dashboards, weekly check-ins, admin tooling, and progress analytics.
Goal tracking product with Typeform check-ins, admin panel, and Strapi-backed content.
- · Goals and values dashboard
- · Weekly check-in integrations
- · Admin user management
- · Progress analytics
Next.js · TypeScript · Material UI · Strapi · Axios
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
Working with teams in Dubai
Dubai brands investing in premium digital products and AI. We work with clients in Dubai remotely and keep overlapping hours in GST. We usually collaborate in English/Arabic.
How we work with Dubai teams
Dubai runs on GST, one hour ahead of us, so the overlap is effectively complete. We work the Sunday-to-Thursday week where clients do, and same-day responses are the norm rather than the exception.
What Dubai clients usually need
Dubai clients typically want a product that looks premium and holds up under real traffic: booking and marketplace platforms, branded commerce, and AI automation inside operations that are already running.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in AED or USD. Where products serve both English and Arabic audiences, right-to-left layout, Arabic typography, and localised content are planned into the design system instead of retrofitted.
