Senior Full-Stack Engineer | Remote (Philippines)

Arca.ph; Philippines; Remote; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Arca.ph is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer based in the Philippines to join a US-based software company building cloud-based products and intelligent workflows. You will own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, and cloud, collaborating with product and engineering teams remotely.

The role emphasizes shipping measurable features, mentoring engineers, and shaping engineering standards while balancing speed and reliability in a distributed environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
• Strong backend in Node.js and/or Python, API design and asynchronous workflows.
• Relational database design and performance (PostgreSQL or similar).
• REST APIs design; GraphQL experience is a plus.
• Experience with AWS or GCP, Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automated testing, observability, and secure development.
• Strong product judgment and written communication in a distributed team.
• Overlap with US time zones (4 hours).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, release, and operate production features across the frontend, backend, data layer, and cloud environment.
• Create clear service boundaries, data models, APIs, and integration patterns that support growth without unnecessary complexity.
• Build accessible, responsive React and Next.js interfaces with strong performance, reusable components, and thoughtful product behavior.
• Develop reliable Node.js and Python services, REST or GraphQL APIs, background workflows, and third-party integrations.
• Help ship LLM-powered workflows and automation with appropriate evaluation, observability, human review, privacy controls, and failure handling.
• Improve automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, security, reliability, and application performance.
• Modernize legacy components pragmatically while protecting customer experience and delivery momentum.
• Lead technical discussions, review code and designs, document decisions, mentor engineers, and raise the bar for engineering quality.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, and business stakeholders to define scope, surface risks, and deliver customer outcomes.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend development

API design

CI/CD pipelines

Testing & observability

Distributed systems

Mentorship

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS/GCP

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

Redis

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Job description

Arca.ph is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer based in the Philippines to join a US-based software company building cloud-based products and intelligent workflows. You will own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, and cloud, collaborating with product and engineering teams remotely.

The role emphasizes shipping measurable features, mentoring engineers, and shaping engineering standards while balancing speed and reliability in a distributed environment.