Loom & Lane
Shopify Plus replatform that lifted conversion rate by a third
Loom & Lane sells premium essentials to a loyal list, but the store ran on an aging custom platform that fought every campaign. Collection pages took ...
+31%
Conversion rate
Hire Shopify developers who ship, not just bill
Senior Shopify engineers embedded in your team for a month or a year. Liquid, Hydrogen, Apps, integrations. You get named people, their real availability, and the option to hire them permanently.
140 stores built, 8 years on the platform, senior engineers only
Codioo embeds senior Shopify developers in in house teams: Liquid, Hydrogen, app and integration engineers who join your standups, your repositories and your Slack from about $25 an hour. You control the monthly capacity, you can audit the work logs, and after six months you can hire the engineer permanently with a flat fee, not a recruiter's percentage.
What an embedded developer takes off your plate
The steady work a store needs once the big launch is behind it.
Theme work, continuously
New sections and templates on request, performance kept green, accessibility fixes folded into normal work.
Feature velocity
The backlog you never get to: subscription tweaks, bundle logic, checkout improvements, one measured slice at a time.
App and API maintenance
Custom apps kept current with API versions, scopes reviewed quarterly, dependencies patched.
Integration care
Syncs monitored, reconciliation checked, failures triaged before they become incidents.
Peak season readiness
Load testing, promo infrastructure and a warm pair of hands through Black Friday week.
Knowledge transfer
Documentation written as work happens, so your team's bus factor improves every month.
When should you hire a Shopify developer this way?
Embedded development suits a specific situation. Check yours against these.
Backlog grows faster than output
Ideas wait in a queue while your one developer fights fires.
Recruitment is slow
Good Shopify engineers take months to hire, and the wrong one costs more than waiting.
You need senior only
The work needs someone who has shipped it before, not someone learning on your store.
Capacity flexes
Some quarters need two engineers, some need half of one. Payroll does not flex that way.
An agency is too heavy
Project scoping overhead does not suit the small, continuous work your store needs.
You want a trial
Try an engineer for three months before committing to a permanent offer.
How embedding actually works
A word about what embedded hours should not be used for. Emergency rescue work, an outage, a broken checkout, a failed migration, is project work wearing an hourly costume, and it deserves a scoped response with a named owner. Embedded hours shine at the steady middle of the backlog: improvements, maintenance, small features, the work that never quite reaches the top of a project queue. Keeping the two separate is why both stay affordable.
The mechanics are simple on purpose. You get a named engineer, usually within two weeks, who works in your tools: your repository, your project board, your standup, your Slack channel. Capacity is agreed monthly in hours and invoiced against a work log you can audit line by line. There is no bench rotation: the same person stays with your store, because store knowledge compounds and rotating it away is waste. If you need more hands, we add a second engineer who pairs until productive.
Scope discipline is what makes embedded hours cheap instead of expensive. Your engineer maintains a live backlog with estimates you can challenge, ships small measured slices, and writes a weekly note: what shipped, what it moved, what is next. Nothing about the arrangement rewards stretched work. When a request turns out to be a project rather than a task, it gets scoped as one, quoted separately, and the embedded hours stay on velocity work.
The permanent hire option is the part clients ask about first. After six embedded months you can hire the engineer directly for a flat fee. The engineer knows your store, your team knows the engineer, and the interview is a formality around a working relationship instead of a bet on a CV. About a third of our embedded engagements convert this way, and we think that is a feature of the model, not a leak: the client gets a proven hire and we backfill.
What embedded work costs, honestly. A senior embedded engineer from Codioo runs from about $25 an hour, billed monthly, with a 20 hour monthly minimum. A dedicated full time equivalent costs more per hour but less per output, and we will tell you which fits your backlog shape. Recruitment agencies charge twenty to thirty percent of first year salary for a hire you still have to interview. Our flat conversion fee after six months is lower by design, because the embedding was the audition.
From first call to embedded, fast
No recruitment funnel. A working engineer inside two weeks.
Step 1
Day 1
Needs call
Thirty minutes on your stack, backlog shape and the profile that fits. You get candidate profiles the same week.
Step 2
Days 2 to 5
Meet the engineer
A working session with the actual engineer, not a salesperson. Review a real task from your backlog together.
Step 3
Week 1 or 2
Trial sprint
First paid sprint on a real task, with a wrap up note. Continue, swap or stop based on evidence.
Step 4
Ongoing
Embed
Monthly capacity, live backlog, weekly notes, work logs you audit. Scale up or down with notice.
Step 5
Every 12 weeks
Review quarterly
Output against plan, velocity trend, and whether the shape of engagement still fits.
Step 6
After 6 months
Convert, if you want
Flat fee permanent hire of your embedded engineer, or keep embedding indefinitely.
What you receive at handover
- Repositories with readable commit history and documentation
- A written runbook for launch, rollback and known edges
- Recorded training sessions for the staff who run it daily
- Every credential and secret in your own vaults
- A baseline report so post launch numbers have a before
Frequently paired with
- Shopify theme development$3,500 for a custom theme build, 4 to 6 weeks
- Custom Shopify development$5,500 for a scoped feature build, 4 to 10 weeks depending on surface area
- All servicesThe full hub with the comparison table
The profiles we staff from
Senior engineers with platform depth. We do not staff juniors on client stores, ever.
Liquid and theme architecture specialistsHydrogen and Storefront API engineersAdmin API and Functions engineersIntegration engineers (ERP, 3PL, CRM)Performance and Core Web Vitals specialistsAccessibility specialists (WCAG 2.2)Shopify Plus architecture experienceAnalytics and data pipeline skillsFull TypeScript working standardEnglish working proficiency, documented communication
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Pricing and timelines
Embedded developer pricing
Hourly with monthly minimums, or dedicated capacity. Conversion to permanent is a flat fee after six months.
| Project type | Price from | Timeline | What is included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embedded hours (part time) | $25/hr | 20 hr monthly minimum | Named senior engineer, your tools, weekly notes, work logs |
| Dedicated full time | $4,000/mo | Monthly rolling | 160 hours, priority in your standup and planning |
| Peak season cover | $3,000/mo | Oct to Jan | BF ready engineer on standby, load testing included |
| Permanent conversion | Flat fee | After 6 months | Your embedded engineer, hired directly, no recruiter cut |
| Pair (two engineers) | $7,500/mo | Monthly rolling | Two seniors, shared backlog, cover for holidays |
What changes the price
- Specialism: performance and headless skills price above general theme work
- Time zone overlap requested
- Monthly volume committed
- Peak season terms include standby obligations
- Duration: longer commitments get better rates
- Conversion timing, if you intend to hire permanently
Updated 2026-09-21. Prices in USD, fixed per signed scope. See the full cost guide for every driver.
What clients say about this work
The replatform paid for itself inside two quarters. Codioo scoped honestly, held the timeline, and the new store converts better in month one than our old one did at peak.
They are the rare agency that argues with you when you are wrong. The subscription app they built cut our churn and our support load at once.
Ask about your project
Preset answers about scope, price ranges and timelines. The audit turns them into numbers for your store.
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Instant answers, no chat window
Still unsure? The free store audit answers these for your store specifically, with numbers.
Hire Shopify developers FAQ
The questions clients ask before signing, answered plainly.
What does it cost to hire a Shopify developer from Codioo?
Embedded senior engineers from $25 an hour with a 20 hour monthly minimum, or $4,000 a month dedicated full time. Peak season cover runs from $3,000 a month including standby. After six months you can convert the engineer to a permanent hire for a flat fee that undercuts recruiter percentages.
How fast can a developer start?
Typically one to two weeks from first call to an embedded engineer working in your repository. The process is a needs call, a working session with the actual engineer, and a first paid sprint on a real task. No recruitment funnel, no notice periods to wait out.
Are the developers senior?
Yes, exclusively. Every engineer we embed has shipped multiple Shopify builds across themes, apps and integrations, and we do not staff juniors on client stores. You meet the exact person who will do the work before any commitment, in a working session on your real backlog.
Can I hire the developer permanently?
Yes, after six embedded months, for a flat conversion fee. The model is deliberate: embedding is the audition, and roughly a third of engagements convert to permanent hires. You get a proven engineer who already knows your store, without paying a recruiter's percentage.
How do I know what the hours go to?
Every engineer keeps a work log you can audit line by line, plus a weekly note covering what shipped, what it moved and what is next. The live backlog carries estimates you can challenge. If a request grows into a project, it gets scoped and quoted separately instead of silently eating hours.
What if the engineer is not a fit?
Swap or stop, based on the first sprint's evidence rather than a contract trap. The trial sprint exists precisely so the decision is cheap: if the working session and first sprint do not convince you, we part ways with nothing owed beyond work done.
Do embedded developers do project work too?
They can, but big builds are usually better as scoped projects with fixed prices. Embedded hours suit continuous work: backlog velocity, maintenance, improvements. When embedded work uncovers a project, we scope it properly and quote it separately.
Which time zones do you cover?
Our engineers work overlapping hours with clients in Europe, the Middle East, North America and APAC. Four hours of daily overlap is the usual commitment, with async coverage beyond it. Requested overlap affects the rate.
Who owns the code an embedded developer writes?
You do, from the first commit. Work happens in your repository under your review, and there is nothing to transfer at the end because nothing was ever ours.
Is there a minimum commitment?
Twenty hours a month is the minimum, rolling monthly with two weeks notice to change or stop. Peak season standby terms run October to January. No lock in beyond that: the model keeps clients because the work is good, not because the contract is sticky.
Related services and next steps
Shopify theme developmentBrands on a rented template that looks like their competitors, loads slowly under stacked apps, or fights their brand system at every section.Custom Shopify developmentBrands whose growth is blocked by what apps cannot do: a bespoke buying flow, a configurator, wholesale logic, a portal, or a storefront shaped around content as much as products.All Shopify development servicesThe full hub with every service
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