Can we interview the developer first?

Yes. We'll arrange a 30-minute working session with the engineer assigned to your engagement before contracts. If the fit isn't right, we propose someone else.

Do you have Shopify Plus experience?

Yes. Plus B2B catalogs, custom checkout extensibility (Shopify Functions, checkout UI extensions), customer account portals, multi-store, and Hydrogen / Next.js headless storefronts.

Where are your developers based?

We are a remote-first team working with brands worldwide. Working hours overlap meaningfully with US Eastern, US Pacific, UK, European, and Gulf business hours.

Do you offer white-label for agencies?

Yes. NDA, no public attribution, your brand, our hands. We'll never approach your client directly.

What about IP and code ownership?

All code is yours from day one. Repos in your GitHub, deployments to your stores, documentation in your team's tools.

Can you do emergency engagements?

Yes — when the brief is clear and we have capacity. For genuine emergencies (store down, checkout broken, post-launch fix) we usually have hands available within 48 hours.

Hire Shopify developers

Senior Shopify developers, embedded in your team.

Hire senior Shopify developers from a studio that ships custom themes, Plus engagements, and headless storefronts every week. Dedicated, fractional, or white-label — embedded in your roadmap, accountable to your KPIs.

Brief a hiring engagement How we engage

Seniority

5+ years Shopify, theme to Plus

Models

Dedicated · fractional · white-label

Stack

Liquid · OS 2.0 · Hydrogen · Next.js

Communication

Slack · Linear · daily standup

What is hiring Shopify developers through an agency?

Hiring Shopify developers through an agency means engaging senior engineers as dedicated, fractional, or white-label resources — without the timeline and risk of a full-time hire. The model fits ecommerce teams who need Shopify capacity now and agencies who need Plus-grade overflow.

Why this exists

Senior Shopify engineers are scarce. The kind who think like merchants are scarcer.

Shopify hiring is a thin market. Plus-grade engineers who also understand merchandising, conversion, and analytics are scarcer still. We keep a small bench of senior Shopify engineers who think like merchants — fluent in Liquid, Section 2.0, checkout extensibility, Shopify Functions, Hydrogen, and the data layer that connects them to actual revenue.

What we hear most

When teams call us about hiring Shopify developers.

Custom feature is blocking growth

Bundle builder, B2B portal, subscription flow, gift card stack — every quote that comes back is 12 weeks out. Need senior hands now to ship in 4.

Plus migration in flight

Moving from Magento, BigCommerce, or Shopify Standard to Plus. Need engineers who've shipped Plus migrations before and know where the catch is.

Headless storefront

Building a Hydrogen or Next.js front-end on top of Shopify. In-house React fluent, Shopify storefront API not. Need engineers who live on both sides.

App stack is the problem

30 apps installed, half of them duplicating each other, all of them slowing the store. Need senior engineers to consolidate into the theme without losing function.

Conversion stalled after a redesign

New theme launched, conversion dropped, nobody owned the recovery. Need experienced Shopify engineers to instrument, hypothesize, and ship CRO sprints.

Agency overflow

Shopify retainer pipeline is full, senior capacity short. Need a white-label partner who ships under your brand and never touches the client.

What we deliver

How a Haxtiv Shopify hiring engagement runs.

Senior engineers, embedded in your team, with the operational discipline of a studio.

Engagement models

Dedicated developer (full-time, 4 or 6 month minimum)
Fractional team (2–4 days/week, sustained capacity)
Project-based (fixed scope, fixed quote)
White-label for agencies (NDA, your brand, our team)
On-demand Plus support (block of hours, fast turnaround)

Who you get

Senior Shopify engineers (5+ years, Liquid + OS 2.0)
Shopify Plus, B2B, and checkout extensibility experience
Hydrogen, Next.js, and headless Shopify storefronts
Shopify Functions and Shopify Flow fluency
GTM, GA4, and Shopify analytics for CRO work

How we work

Slack channel with named senior engineer
Linear, Jira, or your tracker — we work in your tools
Daily standup option for embedded engagements
Code review, pair programming, knowledge transfer
Documentation in your repo and your wiki, not ours

Operations

Staging stores and theme-promotion discipline
Backup before every theme release
Performance budgets enforced per template
Monthly written reporting on shipped work
Quarterly partner review and roadmap alignment

Process

How this service runs end to end

The same six-step shape we use across every Haxtiv project — adapted to the specifics of this scope.

01
Discover
Audit, intent, and the part nobody is saying out loud
We open with a working session — not a deck. We pull analytics, crawl the existing site, audit the brand, and interview the people closest to revenue. We surface the friction inside the team, not just the friction on the screen.
02
Define
Sitemap, story, and the metrics that actually matter
We define the audience journeys, the commercial pages we are willing to defend, the SEO architecture, and the measurable outcomes. You get a shape of the project that survives feedback because it was built on evidence.
03
Design
Editorial system, art-directed, never templated
Type, grid, motion, and tone built as a system. We design the hero, the long pages, the unloved corners, and the empty states. Every screen looks like it belongs to the same studio. Nothing is parked for later.
04
Build
Production code your team can keep
WordPress, Shopify, or page builder — we build clean, accessible, performant, and documented. Component-led, naming you'll recognize next year, and a changelog your in-house team can read.
05
Launch
Migration without losing rankings or sleep
Pre-launch crawl, redirect map, schema and metadata cutover, performance baseline, and a launch playbook. We run the deploy with you, not at you.
06
Grow
Care plan, CRO sprints, and quiet improvements
We stay involved. Monthly performance reports, security and core updates, and CRO sprints that compound. The site gets better the longer you keep us.

What this looks like in production

Numbers we earn, not numbers we round up.

Sites shipped

across 27 countries

Studio hours

delivered since 2019

0.0x

Avg conversion lift

post-redesign clients

Client retention

into year two

In their words

Senior teams who chose us.

Haxtiv replatformed our marketing site without losing a single ranking. We saw organic leads up 38% inside the first quarter and the editorial team finally has a layout system they don't fight.

Mara Iglesias

VP Marketing · Lumenwave Health

Headless WordPress redesign

Our previous Shopify build was a Frankenstein of apps. The Haxtiv team simplified the stack, rebuilt the PDP and CRO patterns, and our store is faster and more profitable than it has ever been.

Daniel Korver

Founder · Northbound Goods

Shopify Plus rebuild

Frequently asked

Answers worth asking for.

Don't see the question you're holding? Send it to [email protected] and we'll answer the same day.

Dedicated senior Shopify developers run $9,500–$15,000/month full-time depending on specialism. Plus-grade engineers and headless specialists run higher. Fractional engagements (2–4 days/week) run $5,000–$10,000/month. White-label and project-based pricing on call.

Where to go next

Start here

Tell us where the Shopify capacity gap is.

30-minute call. We'll share who on the bench fits the brief and how the engagement would run.

Book a 30-min call

Send a brief