eCommerce software development teams that build for peak-day traffic.
Hire dedicated senior eCommerce engineers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder. We staff the kind of platform engineers who build custom storefronts, marketplaces, and headless commerce that hold up when traffic spikes, not a cheap Shopify template. Pre-vetted, full-time, and ready in 7 days.
- Inc. 5000 honoreefour years running
- 350+ senior engineerson staff, across every stack
- 200+ companies servedsince 2018
- 1,000+ engineer placementsinto US software teams
Not a dev shop building it for you. Your eCommerce team, building with you.
Most eCommerce software development companies quote you a six- or seven-figure fixed-bid build, work behind a vendor wall, and hand it back. We staff dedicated senior engineers into your team. You own them, manage them, and keep them as your commerce platform scales.
The turnkey vendor model
The big custom-software shops
- Fixed-bid project, scoped up front, priced in the hundreds of thousands
- Engineers walled off behind an account manager
- 30–40% overhead for layers you never meet
- Hand-off at the end, and the knowledge walks out the door
The Full Scale staff-augmentation model
Dedicated engineers, embedded in your team
- $35/hr fully loaded, scale up or down as the roadmap changes
- Engineers in your standups, Slack, repo, and roadmap
- No vendor wall and no PM tax, you manage them directly
- 93%+ retention means the engineers, and the platform knowledge, stay
Co-founded VinSolutions, the #1 CRM in the auto industry ($150M+ exit), and founded Stackify
Built by a founder who has shipped and sold real software
Full Scale was founded by Matt Watson, a four-time founder and CTO with 20+ years in software engineering. He co-founded VinSolutions, the #1 CRM platform in the auto industry, acquired for around $150 million, and founded Stackify, a developer-tools company he later sold. He also wrote Product Driven, the engineering-leadership method every Full Scale engineer is trained on.
Full Scale exists because Matt kept hitting the same wall as an operator: good products stall when you can't hire and keep good engineers. That is the problem we solve, and it is why we vet for the senior, product-minded engineers most staffing shops never find.
Engineers experienced across the commerce stack
We don't sell you a pre-built store. We staff engineers who have shipped commerce platforms before and know where the scale and integration landmines are.
Headless & custom storefronts
Headless commerce front ends, custom storefronts, and PWA shopping experiences built on a composable API layer.
Marketplace platforms
Multi-vendor marketplaces, seller onboarding, split payouts, and the catalog and listing systems behind them.
Checkout & payments
High-conversion checkout flows, payment gateway and wallet integrations, tax, and subscription billing built to scale.
Inventory & order management
Real-time inventory, order management systems, fulfillment workflows, and returns engineered for peak-day load.
Search & personalization
Faceted search, recommendation engines, and personalization pipelines that lift average order value.
Integrations (ERP / CRM / 3PL)
ERP, CRM, 3PL, and shipping integrations that keep your platform, back office, and warehouse in sync.
Engineers who build for security and scale, not as an afterthought
eCommerce doesn't forgive a checkout that drops payment data or a platform that buckles on the busiest day of the year. Our engineers have worked inside audited, high-traffic environments and treat security and scale as architecture decisions, not a checkbox at the end.
The eCommerce specialists on our bench
Backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
Frontend / storefront
React, Next.js, headless
Payments integration
Stripe, PayPal, Adyen
Search / personalization
Elasticsearch, recs, ML
Mobile (commerce apps)
iOS, Android, Flutter
DevOps / SRE
Azure, AWS, IaC, uptime
QA automation
Test coverage for order flows
Solutions architects
System & data design
The eCommerce stack our engineers work in
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
Data
Cloud & DevOps
Commerce & data
Why most offshore eCommerce teams fail, and how to not be one of them
The mistake isn't going offshore. It's hiring the cheapest developer you can find and hoping the platform holds up on Black Friday. I call that cheapshoring, and in commerce it's how you end up with a checkout that drops orders at the worst possible moment.
A commerce platform is unforgiving at scale. You need engineers who understand that a slow page is lost revenue and a broken integration is a warehouse that stops shipping. That's a hiring bar, not a rate, which is the whole reason we accept under 3% of applicants and train every engineer on the Product Driven method.
From call to coding in 7 days
- 1Tell us the eCommerce roles and stack you need
- 2We match pre-vetted engineers from our bench
- 3You interview and pick your team
- 4They start in your standups, repo, and roadmap
eCommerce Software Development Services, answered
- Do you build custom commerce platforms or just set up Shopify?
- We staff engineers who build custom and headless commerce: storefronts, marketplaces, checkout, and integrations engineered to scale. This is platform engineering, not a templated store setup.
- Is this a fixed-bid project or a dedicated team?
- A dedicated team. We are a staff augmentation partner, so you get engineers embedded in your team at $35/hr, not a turnkey project quote.
- Can your engineers handle peak-day traffic and scale?
- Yes. We staff engineers who have built inside high-traffic, audited environments and treat performance and scale as architecture decisions, not a load test bolted on at the end.
- Who owns the code and the IP?
- You do, from day one. Our engineers work in your repositories under your process.
Staffing engineering teams across every industry
ECommerce engineering guides
Retail software development
Our sibling practice for POS, inventory, and omnichannel.
Custom e-commerce development: beyond the platform
When a Shopify or Magento store isn't enough and you need custom commerce engineering.
What staff augmentation is
The model behind an embedded commerce team.
Cheapshoring: the eCommerce version
Why the cheapest developer is the most expensive.