A senior Next.js + Shopify engineering team for Boston biotech, education, B2B SaaS, healthcare, and heritage retail brands. HIPAA-aware, citation-first, ET coverage Mon-Fri 9-6.
Boston web development inherits the engineering culture of MIT, Harvard, and the biotech corridor — meaning architecture decisions get reviewed seriously and citations matter. Our Boston engineering work runs Next.js on Vercel by default for marketing sites, Shopify + Hydrogen for ecommerce, and Postgres on Supabase or AWS RDS for SaaS. HIPAA-aware patterns get used often because the digital health cluster (Mass General, Beth Israel, Dana-Farber) is large. Architecture decision records (ADRs) ship as part of the engagement so internal engineers and review committees can audit choices. The bar is institutional-grade; the engineering posture has to match.
Marketing front-end on Next.js with HIPAA-aware backend integration via Aptible, Datica, or AWS HealthLake. Compliance posture documented. PHI never lands on the marketing tier; clinical data stays behind a BAA-covered backend.
Marketing site plus LMS handoff (Thinkific, custom Postgres, institutional SSO via Auth0 or Okta). Frequently needs LTI integration for university LMS environments.
Next.js on Vercel, Sanity or Contentful for content, Tailwind, GA4 + PostHog. Audience is Series B+ buyers and procurement leads; CWV green on launch is non-negotiable. Strong customer-story templates with citations.
Shopify Plus with custom theme work or Hydrogen + Oxygen when feature requirements exceed Liquid. Klaviyo for email, B2B Plus when institutional buyers exist (universities, hospitals, lab supply).
Our Boston engineering team serves brands across Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, the Seaport, and the Route 128 corridor. Architecture sessions happen on-site at your office, ours, or neutral spaces in Kendall Square, Harvard Square, the Seaport Innovation District, or Back Bay. Past Boston engineering work covered Next.js marketing sites for biotech-adjacent supplement brands in Cambridge, HIPAA-aware patient front-ends for digital health teams in the Longwood Medical Area, education-platform builds for Cambridge teams, and B2B SaaS rebuilds in the Seaport. ET coverage with same-ET Slack response Mon-Fri 9-6.
Default for marketing sites: Next.js on Vercel with Sanity, Contentful, or Storyblok for content, Tailwind for styling, GA4 + PostHog for measurement. For ecommerce: Shopify Plus with Liquid for theme-tier brands, Hydrogen on Oxygen or Vercel for headless. For B2B SaaS: Next.js plus a Postgres backend on Supabase, Neon, or AWS RDS. Architecture decision records (ADRs) ship as part of the engagement so internal engineers and review committees can audit. The Boston engineering culture asks for documentation; we ship it.
Yes, with a specific scope. The Boston digital health cluster is one of the largest in the country (Mass General, Beth Israel, Dana-Farber, the long tail of Cambridge biotech). We handle marketing sites and patient-facing front-ends that route PHI to a HIPAA-compliant backend (Aptible, Datica, AWS HealthLake, or a client-managed BAA-covered AWS environment). We do not host PHI directly without a Business Associate Agreement and a documented compliance posture. The decision tree gets walked at discovery; if the project requires us to be a covered Business Associate, we scope the BAA cost and timeline before signing.
Boston education-adjacent brands frequently need university SSO (SAML, OIDC) and LMS integration via LTI. We integrate via Auth0 or Okta for identity, build LTI 1.3 launch flows for Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle environments, and ship the marketing site and the LMS-handoff as a coherent system. Documentation includes IdP metadata configuration, LTI tool setup, and a runbook for IT teams onboarding new institutional partners.
Same standards as everywhere: LCP under 2.5s, CLS under 0.1, INP under 200ms at the 75th percentile of field data via CrUX. We hit those by serving the hero image as AVIF at fetchpriority='high', avoiding render-blocking JavaScript, deferring non-critical scripts, and shipping a responsive srcset for every image. Third-party analytics (GA4, Vercel Analytics, PostHog, FullStory) get loaded with strategy='lazyOnload' or after main thread interaction. Launch-day Lighthouse scores green on mobile and desktop, monitored via Vercel Speed Insights or Real User Monitoring through DataDog.
Yes. Many Boston biotech and B2B SaaS brands have senior in-house engineers who do not want to take on the front-end project but want to review architecture, code, and infrastructure choices. We integrate via shared GitHub or GitLab repo, code review on every PR, weekly engineering sync on Eastern Time, and full architectural decision records as we go. Internal engineers retain full ownership and operational handoff at the end of the engagement.