Expanding the Shorebird Team
11 years ago, a group of us left the Chrome team believing there had to be something better than janky web pages, or complicated Java apps to build for mobile, and began the journey that would yield Flutter. I would come to lead and grow the Flutter (and eventually Dart) teams at Google until leaving in 2022 to start Shorebird. I left Google in part because I realized there were problems I wanted to solve for Flutter that couldn’t be solved within Google and felt that in the long-term Flutter would be best served by a company wholly focused on Flutter. I set out to build that company.
Flutter over those 11 years has thrived. It saw early public success with the Hamilton App, NuBank, Toyota, Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, and Google’s wide deployments across Assistant, GPay, Classroom, Earth, and more. Flutter now accounts for almost a 3rd of all free app submissions on iOS and is used around the globe by millions of developers and businesses of all shapes and sizes.
Shorebird, has also found its place in this success. We started with Code Push, to address the #1 most up-voted issue on Flutter, and are now serving thousands of businesses globally each month, helping them update their apps for millions of customers. But there is so much more to do, and so much more we can do, to further Flutter and I still believe a focused home for Flutter is what lies in our future.
Shorebird’s revenues have tripled since the start of this year, and our userbase has grown similarly. So much so that our tiny team now struggles to keep up with it all. We’re even about to launch a second product, which surely will stretch our team thinner. It’s time for Shorebird to grow. We’re well funded from a top-5 VC and excellent angel investors and on a path to cross into profitability early next year. But we’re still small enough (only 4 of us!) that there is vast amounts of opportunity available to anyone joining us to chart the future of Shorebird and Flutter.
We’re hiring for a range of engineering roles, including a web-specialist (including potentially early-career candidates), a senior full-stack/generalist and a senior C++ specialist (to own our custom compiler and runtime). We’re also hiring someone to lead our marketing efforts and teach this group of engineers how to get the attention of the millions of Flutter developers who haven’t even heard of us yet. We’re fully remote, able to hire anywhere in North America with existing team members near San Francisco, Chicago and New York City. We pay well (including a large equity stake), with good benefits and are looking for great folks like yourself to join us.
Come work with us and build the future of development!