Dedicated Shopify Developers
Hiring a Shopify developer often goes one of two ways: a freelancer who is great until they vanish mid-project, or an in-house hire you spend months recruiting for work that arrives in bursts. Skill Align offers a third route: experienced Shopify developers for hire on a fixed-scope project, a monthly retainer or a dedicated arrangement, backed by a team that also covers design and QA.
We are a fully remote Shopify Partner team working across time zones, with 52+ brands served and a 5-star client rating. Small tasks and theme customizations turn around in 48-72 hours.
Shopify brands we've worked with
Every engagement is scoped individually, with no fixed packages. Pick the model that matches how your work actually arrives:
Best for a defined outcome such as a new theme, a store build, a migration or an app. We scope it, send an itemized proposal within 24 hours and deliver against agreed milestones. Landing pages start from $300 and full custom stores from $960.
Best for a steady stream of smaller jobs: new sections, campaign pages, app installs, fixes and seasonal updates. You get a predictable monthly budget and a queue worked through in your priority order.
Best when Shopify is central to your roadmap and you want someone who knows your codebase inside out. We scope the arrangement around your backlog and working hours, with the wider team on hand for design and QA.
A strong freelancer suits a contained task with a clear spec and someone on your side who can review the work. Freelancers often cost less per hour, and the best ones are excellent.
An agency makes more sense when the work spans design, development, apps and launch, or when you can't afford a single point of failure. You get design, development and QA under one agreement, continuity when someone is away, and a process that doesn't live in one person's head. If your project is small enough that a freelancer is the better buy, we'll say so.
Good onboarding takes days rather than weeks, and it never involves sharing your store owner's password.
We are a fully remote team, and we plan around time zones rather than pretending they don't exist. At kickoff we agree an overlap window with your team, whether you work on US Eastern or Pacific time, in Central Europe, the UK or the Gulf, plus a shared channel and written updates so work keeps moving outside those hours.
Distributed working has a real upside: requests sent at the end of your day can often be ready to review on a preview theme the next morning. For one UK-based DTC brand, we delivered a full Shopify store end-to-end in 11 days, fully remote.
Our Process
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It depends on the engagement. Fixed-scope projects are priced per deliverable, with landing pages from $300 and full custom Shopify stores from $960. Retainers and dedicated arrangements are priced on the monthly capacity you need. Every engagement is scoped individually, and you get an itemized proposal within 24 hours of a free discovery call so you can compare options side by side.
Once the proposal is approved, onboarding usually takes a few days: collaborator access, repository setup and a development theme. Small tasks and theme customizations typically turn around in 48 to 72 hours after that. Larger work follows a dated plan; simpler builds launch in 7 to 14 days, and full custom stores usually take three to four weeks.
Yes, when access goes through a collaborator account rather than a shared login. You approve the request, choose exactly which permissions to grant, and can revoke access at any time. We work on unpublished themes so your live store is never edited directly, and every change is tracked in Git. Be wary of any developer who asks for your owner password.
Hire a freelancer for a small, well-defined task when you can review the code yourself. Hire an agency when the work needs design, development and QA together, has a deadline you can't miss, or will continue after launch. An agency also reduces key-person risk, because more than one developer knows your store. If your task is small, we will tell you honestly.
Yes. We are a fully remote team working across time zones, and at kickoff we agree a daily overlap window for calls and urgent issues. Outside that window, updates are written and asynchronous, so progress doesn't depend on meetings. Requests sent at the end of your day can often be waiting on a preview theme the next morning.
Post-launch support is included on every project, covering bugs and questions after go-live. If you want ongoing help, a maintenance retainer covers updates, new sections, app changes and seasonal campaigns. Your code stays in your store and your repository, with handover notes, so you can continue with us, bring the work in-house or switch providers without starting over.
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