Interface quality
Screens that match the design system, including empty, loading, error, and partial states, not only the happy path in the mock.
Hire frontend developers
Hire senior frontend developers from the Philippines
Arca places senior frontend developers from the Philippines and Asia with US companies for $35/hr, all-in, with no recruiting fee. You will meet a shortlist within 7 working days. Your developer works your full US business day on a month-to-month engagement, with unlimited replacements.
The role
What a senior frontend developer owns on your team
A senior frontend developer owns how the product feels in the browser: the components, the states, and the speed a person actually notices.
The component layer
Shared components other engineers can use without forking them the second week.
Accessibility
Keyboard paths, names, and contrast treated as part of the feature, checked before the review is called done.
Client performance
Bundle size, rendering, and the requests a page makes, measured on the devices your users have.
Design collaboration
They can push back on a mock that will not survive real data, and they can implement one that will.
UI incidents in your hours
Online during the US business day when a release breaks a flow customers are in the middle of.
Is it the right hire?
When a frontend developer is the right hire
- The design system is drifting and every new screen invents its own components.
- Designers are blocked waiting on an engineer who can implement, not just approximate.
- The product feels slow or brittle in the browser and nobody owns that work.
- Backend capacity is in place and the user-facing queue is the constraint.
Some features still need someone across the stack. full-stack developers or software engineers.
Stacks
Skills we match on
Tell us your stack and we will screen for engineers who have shipped production code in it.
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Vue
- CSS
- Accessibility
- Design systems
- Testing Library
How we match
Matched to the interface you ship
We start with the hiring manager and the UI this person will be responsible for. For a frontend hire, that often means:
- Production UI in your framework, with a design system they contributed to rather than only consumed.
- Accessibility work they can demonstrate, not a checklist they have heard of.
- A performance problem in the browser they measured and fixed.
- Comfort pairing with design on the parts of a mock that will not survive real content.
- AI tools used to draft components, with review of the states and the semantics the tool skips.
Our team are technologists. We screen a large number of candidates and introduce only the best. You interview them and decide.
Cost
What this hire costs
| Hiring route | Per hour |
|---|---|
| ArcaSenior, all-in | $35/hr |
| Latin American staffing firms, senior | ~$45–$72/hr |
| US in-house hire, fully loaded | ~$94–$119/hr |
US figure: median to 75th-percentile hourly wage for software developers (BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: $65.38–$82.68), divided by 0.692, the wage share of total compensation for private-industry professional workers (BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026). Latin American figure: published senior staffing-firm rates, converted at 160 hours a month. BLS wage table for software developers · BLS employer cost release. Market pay in the Philippines: software engineer salaries in the Philippines.
Included in the $35/hr rate
- Your developer's compensation and contract
- Dedicated account manager
- HR, onboarding, and performance reviews
- Training and mentoring
- Month-to-month, no recruiting fee
- Unlimited replacements
How hiring works
Three steps to a frontend developer
Discovery call
The design system, the framework, and the surfaces this person will own.
Day 0Interview your shortlist
Frontend candidates screened against that UI. You interview and choose.
Within 7 working daysStart
They join your repo, your design reviews, and your US hours. We handle contracts and HR.
When you chooseInterviewing
Questions to ask a senior frontend candidate
Use these alongside your own technical interview. You make the hiring decision.
Show me a component that other people reused, and where that reuse went wrong.
Look for an API they would change, and the states they forgot the first time.
How do you check a flow with a keyboard and a screen reader?
A senior answer names the checks they actually run, not a library they installed.
Tell me about a page that got slower after a release you worked on.
Listen for how they noticed, what they measured, and what they removed.
When did you last disagree with a design, and what did you ship?
You want a specific constraint, a conversation, and a result, not a claim that they always defer.
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How much does a senior frontend developer from the Philippines cost?
Through Arca, from $35/hr, all-in. That includes compensation, contracts, HR, account management, and training, with no recruiting fee.
How quickly can I hire a frontend developer?
Arca sends a shortlist in 7 working days from your discovery call. You interview the candidates and choose.
Do you place people who only do marketing sites?
We place senior product engineers. Tell us if the work is an application UI, a design system, or both, and we screen for that.
Will they overlap with our designers in US hours?
Yes. Arca engineers work your full US business day, whatever your time zone.
Where are they based?
In the Philippines and elsewhere in Asia. They work your US business day either way.
Can you match React, Vue, or a design-system role?
Yes. The chips on this page are common senior stacks. Tell us the one this hire will actually use.
What if they are not a fit?
We replace them. Replacements are unlimited for as long as you're a client, and the engagement is month-to-month.
Hire a frontend developer who works your hours.
Tell us the role. We will introduce your shortlist.