Retail software development teams that build for peak-day traffic.
Hire dedicated senior retail engineers from a staffing partner founded by a four-time founder. We staff the kind of engineers who build point-of-sale, inventory, and omnichannel systems that hold up when the store floor and the website spike at the same time. 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 retail team, building with you.
Most retail 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 store, back office, and channels scale.
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 system 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 retail stack
We don't sell you a pre-built platform. We staff engineers who have shipped retail systems before and know where the in-store, inventory, and integration landmines are.
Point-of-sale systems
POS software, register and checkout flows, payment terminal integrations, and offline-capable transactions that keep selling when the network drops.
Inventory & merchandising
Real-time inventory, stock and replenishment, planogram and merchandising tools, and pricing and promotion engines across every location.
Omnichannel & order management
Order management systems, buy-online-pickup-in-store, ship-from-store, and a single view of inventory across stores, warehouse, and web.
Loyalty & customer CRM
Loyalty programs, points and rewards, customer profiles, and CRM that ties the in-store shopper to the online one.
In-store & associate apps
Mobile clienteling, line-busting, store-associate apps, self-checkout, and kiosk software that runs on the floor.
Retail analytics & reporting
Sales and store performance dashboards, demand forecasting, and the data pipelines that feed merchandising and operations decisions.
Engineers who build for security and uptime, not as an afterthought
Retail doesn't forgive a register that goes down on the busiest day of the year or a system that leaks card data. Our engineers have worked inside audited, high-traffic environments and treat security and reliability as architecture decisions, not a checkbox at the end.
The retail specialists on our bench
Backend engineers
.NET, Java, Python, Node
POS / in-store apps
Offline-first, terminals
Payments integration
Stripe, Adyen, terminals
Data / forecasting
Inventory, demand, ML
Mobile (associate apps)
iOS, Android, Flutter
DevOps / SRE
Azure, AWS, IaC, uptime
QA automation
Test coverage for sale flows
Solutions architects
System & data design
The retail stack our engineers work in
Backend
Frontend
Mobile
Data
Cloud & DevOps
Retail & data
Why most offshore retail 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 registers hold up on the busiest day of the year. I call that cheapshoring, and in retail it's how you end up with a point-of-sale system that stops taking payments at the worst possible moment.
Retail systems are unforgiving at scale. You need engineers who understand that a register that goes down is a closed store and a wrong inventory count is a lost sale or an angry customer. 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 retail 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
Retail Software Development Services, answered
- Do you build POS and in-store systems or just online stores?
- We staff engineers who build the in-store and back-office side of retail: point-of-sale, inventory, omnichannel order management, loyalty, and store-associate apps. For online storefronts and marketplaces, see our eCommerce software development page.
- 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 store uptime?
- Yes. We staff engineers who have built inside high-traffic, audited environments and treat performance and reliability 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
Retail engineering guides
eCommerce software development
Our sibling practice for online storefronts and marketplaces.
The Product Driven method
How we train engineers to think like owners.
What staff augmentation is
The model behind an embedded retail team.
Cheapshoring: the retail version
Why the cheapest developer is the most expensive.