Arc
The remote career platform for developers
Hybrid
Some members of the team work remotely, while others are co-located in one or more offices.
👥11-50
📍Taipei, Taiwan
About Arc
At Arc, we believe that everyone deserves an extraordinary career no matter where they live, and that remote work is the key to unlocking this future. But it's still way too difficult to find remote jobs and create a genuine remote career. Our mission is to solve this.
What Arc is building
Arc aggregates job openings at 13,000+ companies hiring remotely worldwide. Our algorithm recommends your best-fit jobs, saving you time, effort, and browser tabs. This is open for all developers to use for free.
About the engineering team
To succeed as a developer, I believe that the quality of your code and your personality are both important. This means not just meeting feature requirements, but also paying attention to the structure of the code. This kind of developer pays close attention to implementing best practices. Moreover, developers also need to give and receive objective feedback. This feedback isn't personal, but instead aimed at improving the team processes. Through trusting each other, we're able to grow as a team. My biggest area of growth as Front-end Lead at Arc has been in making technical decisions: identifying issues, discussing potential solutions, and analyzing the pros and cons of each option. Our team culture of deep discussion means we learn a lot from each other, and develop a thorough understanding of issues in both breadth and depth. The whole team is enabled to make both big and small decisions that impact different areas of the product. Because we use well-established processes to determine trade-offs, we’re able to make these decisions with confidence.
Oliver Lin, Front-End Lead
🇹🇼 Taiwan
See moreAs a Front-end Developer with a business background, I love how developers are pulled in early during the product development phase. We work in close-knit product teams with the PMs and designers to understand what our users’ pain points are and how we can solve them at Arc/Codementor. Looking through user research and product related analytics, we develop a hypothesis to work with. Joining in the product discovery process creates a more engaging development process. One of my most memorable challenges was being able to see through the launch of a brand new product, DevProjects — from brainstorming a mere concept, iterating through rounds of product related discussions, to developing the MVP. It's also always exciting when our designer revealed her brand new product designs!
Ting Chang, Front-end Developer
🇹🇼 Taiwan
See moreWhat's an average day like?
Weekly Meeting(s):
15 mins sync-up meeting every Tuesday and Thursday:
* What are you working on? Are you facing any challenges?
45 mins sharing every Thursday:
* Share what you've learned from your recent tasks, as well as any new technologies, posts, or tools you've discovered.
1 hr study group every Friday:
* The engineering team chooses one book to read together. All members of the team take turns hosting.
Monthly Meeting(s):
Non-feature requirements:
* Discussion focuses on improvements to our development environment or any security issues. Framework, library, and/or tool upgrade issues are also discussed in this meeting.
Process review:
* Everyone notes what's working well, and proposes areas for improvement based on the current development process. The goal of this meeting is ensuring the team enjoys their daily workflow.
Where the team is located
11 | 🇹🇼 Taiwan
Technologies used at Arc
Front-end (3)
Back-end (4)
React
JavaScript
Node.jsRemote work tools
Notion
Internal DocumentationPaper
Internal DocumentationSlack
Team CommunicationZoom
MeetingsAround
MeetingsCompany culture
Fast and focused
Future of Work and EdTech products move fast — and so do we. We like to experiment and test things, and we ship the MVP. We stay focused on building the stuff that matters.
Everyone is an owner
Bring your whole self to work, and take projects from your initial idea to launch. Need help from another team? Just ask.
Funding rounds
Total Funding
$3.5M
Last funding round type
Seed
Company type
Private
Arc news and updates
Arc opens its remote career platform to all software developers
The COVID-19 pandemic threw remote work into the spotlight, but tech companies have hired in other locations for years to deal with talent shortages. Arc announced today it is opening its remote hiring platform to all software developers. Previously, Arc was open only to developers who passed its verification process. Developers can still get verified […]
Apr 28, 2021 | TechCrunchHow this Techstars alum used a new crowdfunding law to raise nearly $1M for remote work platform
With a mission to bring its remote career platform to more people, Arc is also bringing the chance to invest in the startup to more people, raising almost $1…
Apr 28, 2021 | GeekWireTech pitches in to fight COVID-19 pandemic
A growing number of tech companies and IT pros are working in a variety of ways to help fight the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Here's a rundown of what some of them are doing to help fight COVID-19.
May 5, 2020 | Computerworld