We build eCommerce and software that holds up under load.
Senior engineers who take your slow store, brittle theme, or MVP that won't scale — and make it fast, stable, and yours. Shopify, custom web, mobile, and the backends behind them.
- Shopify
- Laravel
- React
- Python
- Rails
- .NET
- Java
- 50+ projects shipped
- Senior-led delivery team
- Shopify · Laravel · React · Python
- Your hours, not ours
- 50+
- Projects shipped
- 10+
- Engineers & specialists
- 8+ yrs
- Experience per engineer
- 11
- Countries shipped to
Testimonials
What clients and colleagues say.
Two clients whose projects we built, and the engineers and managers who have worked alongside our lead.
I've worked with IFTAJ Studio on several projects of varying complexity — always delivering professional, complete solutions. The projects are perfectly executed, and they give an in-depth explanation of what was done and resolve any questions that come up.
IFTAJ Studio did quick and accurate work on our Shopify e-commerce needs. They understood the requirements and delivered everything we asked for. Recommended.
A developer you can trust — someone who takes ownership of his work and consistently delivers with quality and care.
One of the most dependable and technically skilled professionals I've worked with. He never cuts corners, and his work always meets the highest standards.
A deep understanding of Shopify and e-commerce. He always went above and beyond to make sure the project shipped on time and to the highest standard.
He approaches difficult tasks with confidence and curiosity — never backing away from a tough assignment. Reliable, and genuinely collaborative.
Consistently delivers clean, efficient, reliable code — and is always willing to help solve complex problems.
His technical expertise, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills truly stood out. Polite, cooperative, and a valuable asset to any team.
Why us
The studio is new. The team isn't.
IFTAJ Studio launched recently. The people in it didn't. Our engineers have each spent the better part of a decade shipping storefronts, platforms and production systems for international clients — as leads, as architects, as the person on call when it broke.
Behind those engineers is a vetted delivery bench — Ruby on Rails, .NET, Java, iOS and Android, QA automation and DevOps — brought onto a project when it needs them. You can interview anyone before they touch your work.
We're not the cheapest, and we're not the biggest. We're the team you call when the cheap build broke and the big agency stopped answering.
New as a name. Not as builders.
You will never be someone's first project.
Interview the engineer
You meet and vet whoever will build it — before you sign anything. No bait-and-switch to a junior after the pitch.
You own everything
Repository, credentials and documentation are yours from the first commit, not the final invoice. No lock-in we benefit from.
No account managers
You talk to the person writing your code. There's no layer in between, because there's no layer to have.
The problem
Sound familiar?
If you have said any of these out loud in the last six months, we should talk.
“Our store is slow, and nobody can tell us why.”
We profile the theme, the apps and the network waterfall, then tell you exactly what is costing you seconds — before we touch a line of code.
“Every theme update breaks something.”
Usually a symptom of customisation welded into theme files. We move it into sections, schema and metafields so updates stop being a gamble.
“We're paying an agency and we've never spoken to a developer.”
You will talk to the person writing your code. There is no account-manager layer here, because there is no layer to have.
“The MVP works. It won't survive growth.”
We audit the parts that break first under load — queries, queues, indexes, caching — and rebuild those, rather than starting over.
“We need a technical partner, not a ticket queue.”
A standing call, a named engineer, and a written scope. Long-term retainers are how most of our work runs.
What we build
Seven things, done properly.
We build in seven areas and turn down everything else. That’s not modesty — it’s why none of it is learned on your budget.
How AI fits in
AI-accelerated. Human-verified.
We use modern AI tooling the way good engineers now do — to move faster through prototyping, refactoring and the boilerplate. Then a senior engineer reviews every line before it ships. AI writes drafts; people are accountable for production.
Faster, not looser
AI compresses the parts that used to take days. The review bar it goes through is exactly the same.
You own the result
No black boxes. Readable, documented code you or anyone else can maintain — whether a person or a model wrote the first pass.
Judgement stays human
Architecture, trade-offs and what actually ships are decided by engineers who have made those calls for years.
Selected work
Storefronts our engineers built.
Scale
The scale we've built at.
Not claims — facts you can verify by opening the stores.
Shopify Plus
Enterprise-tier storefronts, including Moda Xpress and Atlantic Radio
Multi-region
A single storefront selling across five countries and currencies via Shopify Markets
10,000+ SKUs
Catalogues navigated by curation, not just search
4 continents
Clients in the US, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Malta, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong
Questions
The things people actually ask.
Including the awkward ones.
Who actually writes my code?
A senior engineer, and you will know their name before you sign anything. There are no juniors on client work and no account-manager layer between you and the person building the thing. For specialist work — Rails, .NET, Java, native mobile, QA automation — we bring in a vetted engineer from our bench, and you can meet them first. What never changes is that a senior reviews everything before it ships.
You're a new studio. Why you over an established agency?
Because the studio is new and the team is not. Our engineers have each spent the better part of a decade shipping production systems — 50+ projects across Shopify, WordPress, Laravel and Python. What you lose in company age you gain in never being handed to whoever was free that week.
What happens if you disappear?
You own the repository, the credentials and the documentation from day one — not at the end of the engagement. Everything we build is written to be picked up by someone else, because at some point it will be.
Do you work with agencies as a delivery partner?
Yes. We work white-label. You hold the client relationship and the commercial terms; we handle technical strategy, delivery, QA and support. Rates and team composition are shared openly.
What does a project cost?
It depends on scope, and anyone who quotes you before understanding the scope is guessing. Tell us what you need on the contact form, including a budget range, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.
Where are you, and what timezone?
Lahore, Pakistan — and we work your hours, not ours. We have shipped for clients across nine countries and four continents, from the US and UK to New Zealand, the Netherlands, Malta, Thailand and Taiwan, and the stores we build sell into many more. Real-time on calls and reviews when it matters, asynchronous when it doesn't. Timezone has never been the thing that decided a project.
Free audit
Not ready to start? Get a free store audit.
Send us your Shopify store or site. A senior engineer reviews speed, conversion and what's quietly breaking, then sends a plain-English list of what we'd fix first — no pitch, no obligation.
Tell us what's broken.
Or what you want to build. Either way, you'll hear back from an engineer, not a sales pipeline.
We reply within one business day