Hire software developers in the PhilippinesWe hire 1% of applicants. Under 3% of them leave.
Swiss-owned, Cebu-based, 16 years. A handpicked team of software engineers in the Philippines, embedded in yours — your sprints, your repo, your standups.
Australia is short
259,000 tech workers.
The country’s tech workforce shrank in 2025 for the first time on record. A Sydney developer takes nine to fourteen weeks to hire, if you find one.
We’re ten times faster, because the hiring is already done. 360+ people in Cebu, ranked the #1 technology workplace in Southeast Asia, 4.8 on Glassdoor, and an NPS of 88 against an industry average of 39.
People who like where they work stay, and people who stay get good at your product. That’s the part you actually feel.
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The numbers we’re measured on
Two of these are verified by outside parties every year and published. The rest come from sixteen years of placements we track internally.
Of applicants get in
We assess a great many people to place a few. That’s the part clients never see, and it’s the whole product.
Placement success
We do the technical due diligence before anyone is put forward. Nine in ten of the people we place are still on the account long-term.
Annual attrition
Australian IT sits near 22%. Philippine IT is projected at 24%. We’re under three.
Behind Sydney
A full overlapping working day, not a handover.
Lower cost
Against hiring the same person locally in Australia, all-in and fully loaded.
Faster to hire
Than running the search yourself. A Sydney developer is nine to fourteen weeks away.
Operating
Founded in Cebu in 2010, still run by the two people who started it.
People, 270+ of them engineers and product specialists
Software engineering in the Philippines, plus QA, DevOps, data, design and product.
Software developers who flag the problem before you find it.
Across 7,000 outsourcing relationships, the most common complaint about a provider isn’t cost or quality — it’s that they don’t challenge the client enough. With offshore teams specifically, it’s developers agreeing to something they haven’t understood.
When Clutch asks our clients what makes us different, three of them reached for the same word, unprompted.
“Their proactive approach to identifying issues and suggesting improvements sets them apart.”
Sunayana VaghelaHead of Technology, Skip — Melbourne
“They don’t just build; they think about long-term architecture, proactively maintain and document everything.”
Sheree AndersenCEO & Co-Founder, Trove — Melbourne
“The consistency of the communication and the quality of the work — they have been very easy to work with.”
Michael DorganBusiness Development Manager, Pivotal Business Technology — Sydney
“The Arcanys employees are some of the happiest that I’ve experienced.”
Matthew Bisset — Director, Register Now (Melbourne) · 5.0 on Clutch
Nine Australian companies have reviewed us on Clutch. All nine gave five stars.
Every quote on this page is verbatim from a public, verified review. None of it was written by us.
“Their hiring policy is quite strict — they’re serious about quality and the project they’re working on.”
Michael SteeleFounder, LeaseSuite — Sydney
“Our engagement with Arcanys has been a five-star experience.”
Angela KwanCo-Founder & Director, Catalyser — Sydney
“Build and rollout of Trove technology within the designated timeframe. Successful onboarding of multiple customers.”
Sheree AndersenCEO & Co-Founder, Trove — Melbourne
Your dedicated software development team in the Philippines, assembled properly
Most firms doing software development outsourcing in the Philippines send a stack of CVs and let you sort it out. We do the technical due diligence first — your stack, your codebase, what the role has to carry — and only then go and find the people for your dedicated development team in the Philippines. The shortlist is short because that work already happened.
Tell us the gap
Thirty minutes with a co-founder. Roles, seniority, stack, and what your team can’t carry right now.
Our technical people dig in
Not a sales call. Our engineers and product people go through your stack, your codebase and your roadmap so we understand the role properly before we try to fill it.
You get the shortlist, and you interview it
Only now. A short list, because the filtering already happened — technical assessment, work history, communication, and how they behave when they disagree with someone. You interview everyone and you can say no.
They join your standups
Embedded from week one. Review the squad each quarter and scale it up or down.
From AUD 100M to AUD 6.9B in payments processed
Payment Logic built Australia’s first Bill Payment Service Provider platform and is now a market leader, in partnership with American Express.
We started with two engineers in Cebu in 2016. Today it’s a team of 25 across engineering, QA, analysis and sales, led directly by Payment Logic’s own CTO. The people stayed, so the knowledge stayed in the business.
That reliability let Payment Logic deepen the American Express relationship. AMEX now white-labels two of its platforms — Accessline and Freeflow — both live today.
“They have enabled us to build a world class payments platform that powers our own brand Payment Logic, and also American Express products.”Mark Nimco — Co-CEO & CTO, Payment Logic
→ 6.9BAnnual payments processed, on track for about AUD 7.9B this year
What software development in the Philippines actually costs
Like-for-like against the same hire in Sydney. There is no separate management fee — the Arcanys figure is what leaves your account.
A 62% saving — but the bigger number isn’t in either column. When a developer leaves, about 86% of the replacement cost is lost productivity, not the recruiter’s invoice. Ask us for a current quote against your actual roles.