Hire Shopify Developers Who Ship Production Stores, Not Just Themes

Book a discovery call, we shortlist developers matching your specific Shopify needs, you review a small paid trial task on your own codebase, then the developer onboards within about a week. The shortlist is built around what your store actually runs, because a theme-heavy Liquid build, a Hydrogen storefront, a custom app and Plus features like Functions or B2B all need different experience. We ask for read access to the store or repository before shortlisting, since matching on a job title rather than the codebase is how the wrong developer gets placed.

Hourly for small fixes and uncertain scope, a dedicated developer for ongoing roadmaps and Shopify Plus builds, or project-based for a fixed-scope deliverable with a defined price and timeline. On Shopify the right choice usually follows your release rhythm rather than your budget: stores running frequent campaigns and theme changes get more from a dedicated developer who already knows the theme, while a one-off app integration or checkout extension suits project-based. Hourly fits a maintenance backlog. We recommend the cheapest model that fits, not the largest.

Most engagements begin within a week of the initial discovery call, and urgent fixes can sometimes be picked up sooner. What sets the actual date is access rather than availability: a Shopify collaborator invite, repository access and, for app work, credentials for whatever the app talks to. We request those alongside the shortlist so onboarding is not waiting on an email. For a broken checkout or a store-wide fault we triage the same day and treat placement as a separate conversation from stopping the immediate damage.

Yes. Our developers have experience with Shopify Plus features including Shopify Functions, checkout extensibility and B2B storefronts. Plus work needs a particular kind of care rather than simply more skill, because Functions run inside checkout and a mistake there costs orders rather than page views. Developers placed on Plus engagements are matched on having shipped those surfaces before, not on general Shopify experience. If your requirement turns out not to need a Plus-only capability, we say so, since a plan upgrade is a poor substitute for the work that would actually help.

Yes, the hourly model is built for exactly that: small fixes, tweaks or a scoped task with no minimum monthly commitment. It suits the backlog most stores accumulate, a broken section on one template, a discount rule that misbehaves at the edges, an app conflict after an update. We do ask that hourly work is tested on a duplicate theme rather than the live store, which occasionally makes a five-minute change take longer, because a quick edit published straight to production is the most common way a small fix becomes an incident.

A small, paid task on your actual codebase before you commit to a longer engagement, so you see real working code and communication style firsthand. It is paid deliberately, since unpaid trials attract the wrong developers and produce work nobody can use. The task comes from your real backlog so the output is useful even if you decide not to continue, and you keep it either way. What we are testing is not whether the code works but how the developer handles your conventions, asks questions and explains the change.

Yes, a developer can work exclusively on your project full-time or part-time for the length of the engagement, with direct communication with your team. A dedicated Shopify developer earns their value through accumulated context: they learn your theme's conventions, which apps are load-bearing, and which sections are safe to touch, and that knowledge is exactly what makes each later change faster and safer. It is also why we would rather place one dedicated developer than rotate several people through hourly work on a complex store.

Yes, our developers build custom Shopify apps, from internal tools to public App Store listings, using the Shopify Admin API and app frameworks. A public listing is a different commitment from a private app, because it adds Shopify's review process, the Billing API and ongoing support obligations for other merchants' stores. For private apps the honest first question is whether an existing app already does the job, since a subscription buys somebody else's maintenance while custom code becomes yours to own, including hosting and API version upgrades.

Yes, our developers work with Hydrogen, Oxygen and Next.js-based headless storefronts in addition to traditional theme development. Headless engagements need somebody comfortable with both a JavaScript framework and Shopify's Storefront API, which is a narrower pool than theme work, so we are explicit about who has actually shipped one rather than who has read about it. We also flag when headless is the wrong answer, because a store that feels slow is usually carrying too many app scripts and a custom frontend removes none of them.

No. Engagements run month to month, so you can scale up, scale down or wrap up without a fixed-term contract. Notice periods are short and stated plainly in the agreement rather than buried in it. We work this way because a client who stays by choice is a better relationship than one held by a contract, and it keeps the pressure on us to be worth renewing each month. Where a project genuinely needs continuity, a migration mid-flight for example, we say so rather than letting it stall.

Every developer is assessed on real Shopify code, Liquid, theme architecture and app development, and has shipped live Shopify projects before joining a client engagement. Assessment covers the platform-specific judgement that separates a durable store from a fragile one: extending a theme without forking core files, keeping logic on the upgrade path, and knowing which checkout customisations Shopify still supports. General web development experience is not treated as a substitute, because most Shopify defects we are called in to fix are correct code applied in the wrong place.

Yes, our developers build AI-assisted product search, recommendations and support features directly into the storefront, working alongside our dedicated AI Development team. Two limits we state before scoping: a recommendation engine needs enough real order history to beat a simple bestsellers list, and AI-generated product copy needs a human approval step before it publishes. Where you want a custom agent or chatbot built from scratch rather than an existing provider connected up, that is an AI development project rather than a Shopify placement.