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Shopify, engineered past the theme.

For brands outgrowing apps and themes. Shopify and Shopify Plus, engineered past the theme.

Spec sheet
Timeline
6–14 wks
Team
3–5
From
Scoped after a call
Platforms
Plus, Hydrogen

ProblemSound familiar?

  • 40+ apps slowing every page
  • Checkout logic you can’t change
  • Every release breaks something

We engineerWhat we engineer

We replace app sprawl with owned code, move business logic into Functions and middleware, and put the store on a release pipeline with tests — so the storefront gets faster as it grows instead of slower.

ArchitectureTypical architecture

  1. Storefront (Liquid or Hydrogen)
  2. Apps → owned extensions
  3. Middleware (events · cache)
  4. ERP / OMS

CapabilitiesCapabilities

  • Theme architecture and section systems
  • Shopify Functions and checkout extensibility
  • Custom apps and admin extensions
  • Performance budgets and Core Web Vitals
  • Headless with Hydrogen where it pays off

DeliverablesDeliverables

  • Architecture document and estimate
  • Production storefront on a duplicate theme
  • CI pipeline with visual regression
  • Runbook and handover session

ProcessProcess

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Week 1

Discover

We learn the business before the brief: the metric that matters, the constraints, the people involved.

Done whenEveryone agrees on the goal, the metric and its baseline.
What happens
  1. Kick-off workshop with your decision-makers
  2. Access to analytics, code and tools
  3. Agree the one metric this work must move
You get
  • Kick-off notes and a shared goal
  • Access checklist
  • Named pod lead
From you
~2 hours for the workshop, plus access to your systems
Who’s involved
Pod lead + engineering lead
  1. We learn the business before the brief: the metric that matters, the constraints, the people involved.

    What happens
    1. Kick-off workshop with your decision-makers
    2. Access to analytics, code and tools
    3. Agree the one metric this work must move
    You get
    • Kick-off notes and a shared goal
    • Access checklist
    • Named pod lead
    From you: ~2 hours for the workshop, plus access to your systems · Done when: Everyone agrees on the goal, the metric and its baseline.

StackStack

Shopify PlusHydrogenShopify FunctionsKlaviyoGA4Playwright

WorkWork

Questions

Shopify Engineering, asked often.

All questions →

Often. We regularly take the engineering layer while a brand or performance agency keeps creative and media. We agree on ownership in week one so nothing falls between teams.

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