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.
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 Toronto 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 Toronto
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying Toronto startups seeking remote product delivery partners. 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
Vigorant
Frontend · Accessibility
Accessible web app with reusable components, Redux Toolkit state, and Strapi integration.
Code Band product built with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and Redux Toolkit, focused on accessibility and maintainable UI patterns.
- · Accessibility-first UI
- · Reusable component system
- · Efficient Redux Toolkit logic
- · Strapi-backed content
Next.js · React · Tailwind · Redux Toolkit · Strapi
Quickee UI Library
Design system · Tailwind
Tailwind component library for React and Next.js with reusable UI patterns inspired by Tailwind UI.
Code Band component kit providing a variety of production-ready Tailwind components with Redux-friendly patterns for React and Next.js apps.
- · Reusable Tailwind components
- · React and Next.js ready
- · Consistent interaction patterns
- · Faster UI assembly across projects
React · Next.js · Tailwind · Redux
CRM Dashboard
Frontend · Analytics
Customer relationship dashboard with management workflows and data visualization on Next.js.
Freelance CRM surface for managing relationships and visualizing key metrics, deployed on Vercel.
- · CRM management views
- · Data visualization
- · Responsive dashboard layout
- · Vercel deployment
Next.js · React · Tailwind · Vercel
Working with teams in Toronto
Toronto startups seeking remote product delivery partners. We work with clients in Toronto remotely and keep overlapping hours in EST/EDT. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with Toronto teams
Toronto is on ET, giving us an afternoon-to-morning overlap. That supports a daily call window plus asynchronous updates for everything that does not need one.
What Toronto clients usually need
Toronto briefs are mostly B2B SaaS and internal platforms, often from teams with product sense but no in-house engineering capacity to build what they have specified.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in CAD or USD. PIPEDA obligations and Canadian data residency come up regularly, so we confirm hosting regions and data flows before writing code.
