# Arca

> Arca places vetted senior software engineers from the Philippines and Asia with US companies, from $35/hr, senior only, month-to-month.

This public summary describes Arca's hiring model. Published rates are on the pricing page. Discuss the role and availability directly with Arca.

## Frequently asked questions

### What does Arca offer, and where is the talent based?

Arca helps companies hire vetted offshore talent in the Philippines, with software engineering as its primary focus. We source, assess, and match people to your role, stack, seniority, and working needs.

### Which engineering roles can Arca help fill?

We help with software, frontend, backend, full-stack, mobile, QA, DevOps, and AI engineers. Describe the systems, responsibilities, and experience your team needs so we can define the search.

### How are engineers vetted and matched?

Role-specific screening examines technical depth, practical execution, communication, and ownership. We introduce a focused shortlist matched to your requirements, and your team makes the hiring decision.

### How does an engineer join and work with my team?

Engineers join your tools, repository, routines, and roadmap while your team directs priorities. Before the start, agree on the initial responsibility, access, technical reviewer, and how questions will be resolved.

### Can an engineer work with our US team and time zone?

Engineers work with full US-hours overlap, including engineers in Asia.

### How much does hiring through Arca cost?

Senior developers from $35/hr, all-in. Arca places senior engineers only, month-to-month, with no recruiting or setup fees.

### How quickly can we get started?

The shortlist is ready in 7 working days. After an alignment call, sourcing starts against your requirements.

### Does hiring an engineer include managed project delivery?

Our public working model is an engineer joining a team you direct. If you need a provider to scope, manage, and deliver a separate project, explain that requirement and confirm whether the proposed service includes it.

### What if the engineer is not the right fit?

Replacements are unlimited for as long as you are a client.

### How do I start a hiring conversation?

Book a discovery call or email hello@arca.ph. Bring the role, stack, experience level, responsibilities, preferred working window, intended start, and budget expectations.

## Hire, salaries, comparisons, and alternatives

- [/hire](https://arca.ph/hire)
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- [/hire/backend-developers](https://arca.ph/hire/backend-developers)
- [/hire/frontend-developers](https://arca.ph/hire/frontend-developers)
- [/hire/ai-engineers](https://arca.ph/hire/ai-engineers)
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- [/how-it-works](https://arca.ph/how-it-works)
- [/salaries](https://arca.ph/salaries)
- [/salaries/software-engineer-philippines](https://arca.ph/salaries/software-engineer-philippines)
- [/compare/philippines-vs-latin-america](https://arca.ph/compare/philippines-vs-latin-america)
- [/alternatives](https://arca.ph/alternatives)
- [/alternatives/toptal](https://arca.ph/alternatives/toptal)
- [/alternatives/full-scale](https://arca.ph/alternatives/full-scale)

## Public pages

- [Home](https://arca.ph/): offshore hiring and the engineering talent offering.
- [About Arca](https://arca.ph/about): Jake Parks, founder, and senior developers from the Philippines and Asia for US companies.
- [Pricing](https://arca.ph/pricing): senior developers from $35/hr, what is included, and how the rate compares.
- [Hiring FAQ](https://arca.ph/faq): roles, vetting, collaboration, pricing, timing, and support.
- [Careers](https://arca.ph/careers/jobs): open remote roles with US companies.
- [Book a discovery call](https://arca.ph/discovery-call): discuss your role and requirements with Arca.
- [Hiring guides](https://arca.ph/articles): offshore hiring and engineering evaluation.
- [Privacy policy](https://arca.ph/privacy-policy): information handling practices.
- [Terms and conditions](https://arca.ph/terms-and-conditions): service terms.

## Open roles

- [Virtual Assistant](https://arca.ph/careers/jobs/virtual-assistant-2437): Arca is recruiting an analytical, resourceful Virtual Assistant to support a U.S.-based construction company launching a commercial division. Work combines recruiting, outbound outreach, AI tools, workflow improvement, and executive support. Prior recruiting experience is helpful but not required.
- [Sales Development Representative (SDR)](https://arca.ph/careers/jobs/sales-development-representative-sdr-2436): Phone-focused remote SDR role with supplied leads and a provided dialer. Requires at least 3 years of outbound experience, hands-on dialer experience, and at least 6 hours of dialing each working day.
- [Senior Backend Engineer (Fintech/Crypto)](https://arca.ph/careers/jobs/senior-backend-engineer-fintechcrypto-2432): Own production backend services and partner integrations for a US fintech company's institutional crypto trading and off-exchange settlement infrastructure. The role requires financial-system experience, trading and settlement knowledge, professional crypto experience, and strong data integrity skills. Primarily Python and Go; remote, global, U.S. hours.
- [Full Stack Developer](https://arca.ph/careers/jobs/full-stack-developer-2431): Apply to join a remote-first U.S. product engineering team and build production software across React and Next.js, Node.js and Python, PostgreSQL, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
- [DevOps Engineer](https://arca.ph/careers/jobs/devops-engineer-2424): Arca’s client is looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to improve cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, security, and production reliability.
- [Mobile Engineer — iOS & Android](https://arca.ph/careers/jobs/mobile-engineer-ios-android-2423): Arca’s client is looking for a product-minded Mobile Engineer to build, improve, and maintain high-quality applications across iOS and Android.

## Published hiring guides

- [Hiring AI Engineers: Match the Role to the Production System You Need](https://arca.ph/articles/hiring-ai-engineers-match-the-role-to-the-production-system-you-need): Scope a production AI engineering hire around your workflow, data, evaluation and operating needs, with an original capability map and practical example.
- [Hiring Offshore QA Engineers: Define Quality Ownership Before Adding Test Capacity](https://arca.ph/articles/hiring-offshore-qa-engineers-define-quality-ownership-before-adding-test-capacity): Scope an offshore QA engineering hire around product risks, useful checks and clear team responsibilities, with a worked purchasing-flow example.
- [When Do You Need a DevOps Engineer? A Hiring Guide for Growing Software Teams](https://arca.ph/articles/when-do-you-need-a-devops-engineer-a-hiring-guide-for-growing-software-teams): Use recurring delivery problems, a bottleneck map and a fictional release example to decide when your software team needs a DevOps engineer.
- [Hiring a Mobile App Developer: Check Release and Maintenance Ownership](https://arca.ph/articles/hiring-a-mobile-app-developer-check-release-and-maintenance-ownership): Define mobile hiring through device behavior, offline sync, signing, release and maintenance responsibilities. Includes a receipt-capture example.
- [Hiring a Backend Engineer: Define Data, Reliability and System Ownership](https://arca.ph/articles/hiring-a-backend-engineer-define-data-reliability-and-system-ownership): Define a backend engineering role around data correctness, APIs, integrations and production boundaries, with a practical responsibility map.
- [Frontend Engineer Hiring Brief: Turn Product Screens Into Acceptance Criteria](https://arca.ph/articles/frontend-engineer-hiring-brief-turn-product-screens-into-acceptance-criteria): Turn a frontend screen into a hiring brief covering states, accessibility, API boundaries and acceptance evidence. Includes a rescheduling-form example.
- [An Asynchronous Engineering Handoff Template for US–Philippines Teams](https://arca.ph/articles/an-asynchronous-engineering-handoff-template-for-us-philippines-teams): Use a filled engineering handoff with current state, evidence, next owner, decision and access boundaries for US–Philippines collaboration.
- [Combining In-House and Offshore Engineers: Design One Team With Clear Ownership](https://arca.ph/articles/combining-in-house-and-offshore-engineers-design-one-team-with-clear-ownership): Map shared product decisions, review, access and release ownership before adding offshore engineers to an in-house development team.
- [Secure Access for Offshore Developers: What to Set Up Before Day One](https://arca.ph/articles/secure-access-for-offshore-developers-what-to-set-up-before-day-one): Prepare offshore developer access with an assignment-based matrix covering identity, repositories, environments, credentials, devices and removal owners.
- [Onboard an Offshore Software Engineer: A Practical First-Month Plan](https://arca.ph/articles/onboard-an-offshore-software-engineer-a-practical-first-month-plan): Prepare an offshore engineer's first month with a real first assignment, named support owners, development setup checks and useful feedback checkpoints.
- [US–Philippines Working Hours: Design an Engineering Overlap Schedule](https://arca.ph/articles/us-philippines-working-hours-design-an-engineering-overlap-schedule): Compare New York and Los Angeles collaboration windows with Manila, including seasonal clock changes, date boundaries and a working-hours agreement.
- [How to Assess an Engineer's Written Communication Without Judging Accent or Personality](https://arca.ph/articles/how-to-assess-an-engineers-written-communication-without-judging-accent-or-personality): Assess written engineering updates through relevant facts, uncertainty and decisions. Use a consistent exercise focused on the information readers need.
- [Design a Paid Developer Trial That Answers a Real Hiring Question](https://arca.ph/articles/design-a-paid-developer-trial-that-answers-a-real-hiring-question): Plan a bounded paid developer trial with agreed compensation, synthetic data, review criteria and a clear hiring decision. Includes a filled example.
- [How to Compare Offshore Developer Candidates: A Shortlist Decision Matrix](https://arca.ph/articles/how-to-compare-offshore-developer-candidates-a-shortlist-decision-matrix): Use a shortlist decision matrix that separates observed capability, unknowns, support needs and commercial fit when comparing offshore developers.
- [How to Interview an Offshore Full-Stack Developer](https://arca.ph/articles/evaluate-offshore-full-stack-developer): A worked interview plan for US teams hiring offshore engineers, with a fictional full-stack task, a reusable scorecard, and a sample hiring debrief.
- [How to Verify an Offshore Engineering Partner Before You Sign](https://arca.ph/articles/how-to-verify-an-offshore-engineering-partner-before-you-sign): Use an evidence worksheet to distinguish an offshore engineering provider's promises from checkable responsibilities, screening and operating arrangements.
- [Where to Find Software Developers in the Philippines: Choose the Right Sourcing Channel](https://arca.ph/articles/where-to-find-software-developers-in-the-philippines-choose-the-right-sourcing-channel): Choose a Philippine developer sourcing channel using your team's recruiting and technical assessment capacity, rather than application volume.
- [How Long Does It Take to Hire an Offshore Software Engineer? Plan the Steps You Can Control](https://arca.ph/articles/how-long-does-it-take-to-hire-an-offshore-software-engineer-plan-the-steps-you-can-control): Separate sourcing, assessment, agreement and start readiness. Use a dependency sheet and fictional calculation to plan the hiring steps your team controls.
- [Write a Software Engineer Hiring Brief Your Recruiter and Technical Lead Can Both Use](https://arca.ph/articles/write-a-software-engineer-hiring-brief-your-recruiter-and-technical-lead-can-both-use): A filled software engineer hiring brief connecting product outcomes, role boundaries and assessment evidence for US teams hiring in the Philippines.
- [Who Owns the Code? IP and Handover Questions for Offshore Engineering Agreements](https://arca.ph/articles/who-owns-the-code-ip-and-handover-questions-for-offshore-engineering-agreements): Separate code rights from repository custody. Review contributors, licenses, agreements and a practical handover before an offshore engineering engagement.
- [Hiring a Philippine Developer: Employee, Contractor or Provider-Supported Arrangement?](https://arca.ph/articles/hiring-a-philippine-developer-employee-contractor-or-provider-supported-arrangement): Map contracting parties, employment responsibility and administration before choosing an employee, contractor or provider-supported developer arrangement.
- [Hourly, Monthly or Fixed Price? Understand Developer Pricing Models](https://arca.ph/articles/hourly-monthly-or-fixed-price-understand-developer-pricing-models): Understand developer pricing units, scope assumptions, inclusions and change terms before comparing hourly, monthly-capacity and fixed-price proposals.
- [What Does an Offshore Software Engineer Cost? Build a Complete Hiring Budget](https://arca.ph/articles/what-does-an-offshore-software-engineer-cost-build-a-complete-hiring-budget): Compare offshore engineering proposals with a practical budget worksheet that separates provider payments, internal capacity and uncertainty.
- [Philippines, India or Colombia? Compare Engineering Hiring Locations by Your Constraints](https://arca.ph/articles/philippines-india-or-colombia-compare-engineering-hiring-locations-by-your-constraints): Use a location worksheet and a New York meeting example to compare Philippine, Indian and Colombian engineering hiring without national talent rankings.
- [Dedicated Offshore Engineer or Freelance Developer? Match the Arrangement to the Work](https://arca.ph/articles/dedicated-offshore-engineer-or-freelance-developer-match-the-arrangement-to-the-work): Compare a dedicated offshore engineer with a freelance developer through the work that remains, agreed availability and the receiving team.
- [Offshore Staff Augmentation vs. Project Outsourcing: Which Fits Your Team?](https://arca.ph/articles/offshore-staff-augmentation-vs-project-outsourcing): Compare two offshore engineering arrangements through a fictional product role and a bounded project, with questions about direction, acceptance, and support.
- [How to Calibrate Software Engineer Seniority With Evidence](https://arca.ph/articles/how-to-calibrate-software-engineer-seniority-with-evidence): Define engineering seniority through responsibility, uncertainty and relevant evidence. Use an original calibration worksheet before reviewing a shortlist.
- [Can Your Team Support a Junior Offshore Developer? A Hiring Readiness Check](https://arca.ph/articles/can-your-team-support-a-junior-offshore-developer-a-hiring-readiness-check): Check mentor availability, reviewer capacity and teachable work before hiring a junior offshore developer. Includes a practical support worksheet.
- [Hiring Developers as a Nontechnical Founder: Who Should Own the Technical Decisions?](https://arca.ph/articles/hiring-developers-as-a-nontechnical-founder-who-should-own-the-technical-decisions): Assign product, technical review and release decisions before hiring a developer. Use a practical ownership map for a Philippine engineering search.
- [Your First Software Engineer in the Philippines: Which Role Should You Hire?](https://arca.ph/articles/first-engineering-hire-philippines): Choose the right first engineering role in the Philippines, with a responsibility-to-role guide, a fictional hiring example and practical questions for Arca.
- [How to Find and Hire Offshore Software Developers](https://arca.ph/articles/how-to-hire-offshore-software-developers): A practical guide for US teams choosing where to find offshore developers, writing a useful role brief, comparing hiring partners, and assessing candidates.
- [Why US Companies Hire Software Engineers in the Philippines: Benefits and Trade-offs](https://arca.ph/articles/why-us-companies-hire-software-engineers-in-the-philippines-benefits-and-trade-offs): Explore when hiring software engineers in the Philippines fits a US team, using a benefit-and-condition matrix rather than country stereotypes.
- [Why Hire Software Engineers in the Philippines Through Arca?](https://arca.ph/articles/why-hire-software-engineers-through-arca): See how Arca matches vetted software engineers in the Philippines to your role, stack, and team, with a focused shortlist and support after the hire.
- [Introducing Arca: Our Vision for Engineering Talent and the Teams They Build](https://arca.ph/articles/introducing-arca-our-vision-for-engineering-talent): Meet Arca: why we connect Philippine engineering talent with ambitious teams, the benefits we want to create, and the goals guiding our work.

## Contact

Email: hello@arca.ph
Website: https://arca.ph