Seattle engineers are among the most expensive in the US — Amazon and Microsoft alumni set compensation expectations, and startups fight for the same senior frontend and platform people. Product culture here is engineering-led: service-level objectives, observability, and sane CI matter as much as UI polish. Teams ship global products from PT and need partners who understand multi-tenant SaaS, usage billing, and storefront performance at scale. Layoff cycles pushed more talent freelance, but continuity is fragile. Jythu offers stable pods for React/Next.js work, Shopify Plus performance passes, and AI features with tracing — with overlap on Seattle mornings and documentation that survives team churn.
Jythu rebuilds Shopify stores for speed, conversion, and crawlability — custom Liquid themes, trimmed app stacks, PDP clarity, and checkout friction mapped with real analytics. We handle migrations from WooCommerce or Magento, Plus setups when they earn their cost, and ongoing CRO retainers. Performance budgets treated as product requirements, not launch-week surprises. For Seattle teams, that usually means fewer contractor handoffs and a partner who will cut scope when the calendar is real.
Puget Sound — cloud, commerce, and gaming-adjacent product companies on Pacific Time (PT). We tailor Shopify & e-commerce around local collaboration habits — local proof section, city case study/testimonial, timezone/response-time note.
Shopify & E-Commerce Development — nearby services
Built for this market — not a generic offshore brief
Why teams in Seattle hire Jythu
Built for engineering-led buyers — staging on every PR, runbooks, and honest tradeoff memos on Pacific mornings, not account-manager theater or ticket queues without context.
Senior builders, written scope
Two-week sprints, staging on every PR, and deliverables your team can own — not a black-box ticket queue.
US business-hours overlap
Core standups land in your workday with async PRs ready when you log on.
DTC Shopify + SEO (NDA)
A direct-to-consumer brand sat on an off-the-shelf theme with app bloat and soft organic growth. Peak season was approaching and the catalog ran to thousands of SKUs — any downtime would hurt.
Result: Liquid rebuild with an aggressive asset strategy, content templates, and a six-month SEO program. Load times dropped roughly 40%; organic sessions grew about 3× over the program window with no full-store downtime during peak.
Discover → Design → Build → Launch
Discover
Goals, constraints, and success metrics in a focused discovery pass.
Design
Figma flows approved before TypeScript starts — fewer surprises later.
Build
Two-week sprints with staging deploys you can click every cycle.
Launch
Cutover checklist, monitoring, and a 30-day warranty on fixed projects.
Questions teams ask before kicking off
Do you overlap with Seattle Pacific hours?
Yes — core collab is late morning to early afternoon PT, with overnight progress toward your next standup.
Can you work inside our AWS-centric stack?
We routinely deploy on AWS, Vercel, or your chosen host — in your accounts, with IaC and secrets handled to your standards.
How do retainers work for ongoing roadmap work?
Monthly capacity with sprint SLAs, demo every two weeks, and scale-up/down with notice — typical post-launch pattern for Seattle SaaS teams.
When does Shopify Plus make sense for our store?
We start with a discovery call, then a written in/out list for Shopify & e-commerce. Estimates follow constraints — timeline, stack, and who owns the repo — not a one-size quote calculator.
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Ready to start a project?
The first discovery call is on us. Bring constraints — we will bring a timeline and a cut list.