Headless commerce · Hydrogen · Remix
Hire Shopify Hydrogen developers
Hydrogen is young enough that most Shopify shops are still learning it on client projects. We have shipped it for a global beauty brand and for an agency's full roster — internationalization, content personalization, and the caching decisions that separate a fast headless storefront from a slow one.
We work your hours
Florianópolis, Brazil, UTC−3 — one to two hours ahead of US Eastern, four to five ahead of Pacific. A shared workday, not a handoff. How nearshore works.
- San Francisco
- your morning
- New York
- your desk
- Florianópolis
- us, working
What we build
- Headless storefronts on Hydrogen
- New builds on Hydrogen and Remix, with the Storefront API access patterns and caching strategy designed up front rather than retrofitted when the Lighthouse score comes back.
- Replatforms and migrations
- Liquid to headless without losing the SEO you already earned: URL parity, redirect maps, structured data carried across, and a rollout that can be reversed.
- Internationalization
- Multi-market storefronts where locale, currency, and content are architecture rather than a plugin — including the routing and hreflang work that makes each market indexable on its own terms.
- Content personalization
- Different visitors seeing different storefronts, wired so the personalization layer doesn't defeat the cache and cost you the performance you bought Hydrogen for.
- CMS integration
- Builder.io and Sanity wired into Hydrogen so merchandisers can ship changes without a deploy.
- Shopify Hydrogen
- Remix
- Storefront API
- TypeScript
- Builder.io
- i18n
Proof
e.l.f. Beauty
We helped build e.l.f. Beauty's new Shopify storefront end to end, from internationalization through content personalization — one storefront that speaks each market's language and shows each visitor a different face.
Multi-market
storefront, shipped end to end
Start small, expand on evidence.
No twelve-week discovery phase. The fastest way to find out whether this works is to put something in production.
- 01
A call, not a questionnaire
Thirty minutes on what you are building and what is in the way. If we are not the right shop, we will say so on that call.
- 02
A scoped first slice
One real deliverable with a defined edge — an eval suite, a storefront section, a pipeline that was too slow. Small enough to judge, big enough to matter.
- 03
Embedded delivery
In your tools, your review process, your standups. Because we work your hours, review cycles close the same day.
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Expand or stop, on evidence
The first slice tells you what we are worth. Scale up, or walk away having spent very little finding out.
Hire Shopify Hydrogen developers: common questions
Should I hire a Hydrogen developer or an agency?
It depends on whether you have someone to own the architecture. A single contractor is fine for feature work on a storefront that already has a shape. For a new build or a replatform, the early decisions — caching, routing, how personalization interacts with the cache — determine whether the site is fast a year later, and those need someone who has made them before.
Can you migrate an existing Liquid theme to Hydrogen without losing rankings?
Yes, and the SEO work is most of the risk. A replatform that changes URLs without a complete redirect map, or that drops the structured data the old theme emitted, can cost more in lost organic traffic than the rebuild cost to build. We treat URL parity and redirects as launch blockers, not follow-ups.
Do you work with our existing Shopify agency or in-house team?
Both, routinely. We currently deliver storefronts agency-side for a roster of client brands, which means joining someone else's repo, process and deadline is the normal case rather than the exception.
Is Hydrogen the right choice over a Liquid theme?
Often not. Hydrogen earns its complexity when you need custom front-end behaviour, multi-market content, or personalization that a theme fights you on. If your storefront is a catalogue and a checkout, a well-built Liquid theme is cheaper to build and cheaper to keep. We will tell you which one you're in.