Full Stack Web Software Engineer

Overview

We have one successful product with thousands of monthly users, delivering 10s of millions of updates around the globe, every month. We built this all with 2 engineers. We also recently launched a second product which is also growing. We simply need more engineers to keep up with our growing user base and ambition.

What You’ll Do

• Own our web front-ends. This includes our shorebird.dev, console.shorebird.dev, admin.shorebird.dev (private), and other projects.

• Implement web-facing features end-to-end. We use small “backends for frontend” written in React, which talk to our backend APIs or (in a few cases) our Postgres database directly with prisma.

• Help us build all the web/cloud parts for services that Flutter developers need, but don’t want to build themselves (e.g. anything Firebase offers, various GitHub-adjacent services, etc).

• Work with designers to optimize for user experience.

• Help shape our culture, processes, and product direction.

• Note: We do not use Flutter Web (or Jaspr) and don’t write raw CSS or HTML. UX/UI design skills are welcome (and valued), but you will also have designers on contract to support you. Ability to deliver end-to-end features is critical.

What We’re Looking For

• Located in North America, ideally Chicago, New York City or San Francisco.

• Strong desire to work at a startup. We’re a tiny team. All remote. You’ll have to want to make your own decisions and own them.

• Mission alignment. You care about helping the world stop writing everything twice. Flutter is our tool for that and Shorebird aims to take Flutter beyond where Google can.

• 2+ years of experience shipping production web apps.

• At least one year with Remix, React Router, Vue, Next.js, Svelte or similar full stack TypeScript framework (we use Remix/React Router).

• Experience with React, TypeScript, Postgres and (ideally) Dart (what our backend is written in). You should be able to look at https://console.shorebird.dev and say “sure, I could build that”.

• Experience testing code and code coverage.

• You’re a self-starter — you work well with little oversight and thrive in ambiguous environments. You’ll have support as a member of our engineering team, but this still won’t be like working at a big tech job with formal training or processes, you’ll have to learn and teach yourself most things (with help).

• You care about product quality and developer experience.

• Nice to have: Experience with Tailwind, ShadCN, Vite, TurboRepo (all of which we use).

• Nice to have: Startup experience, ideally B2B SaaS.

Why Join

• Work directly with a small, senior team solving hard, high-impact problems.

• Competitive compensation + early equity.

• Shape the future of how mobile apps are built and shipped.

• This job is a great opportunity for someone who wants to work at a startup, has done some frontend but is generally interested in the opportunities that come from working on such a small and senior team.

• Direct access to 1000s of customers via our Discord.

• We travel 3-4x per year to a central location (e.g. Chicago) to work/socialize as a team for a week.

What your days will look like.

First day

• You’ll pair with Felix or Bryan and walk through our various repositories. Our typescript is pretty self-explanatory (and only ~20k lines), our backends are all written in Dart (and ~200k lines).
• You’ll also be encouraged to use the product and take notes. There is a lot we see in first glance at something that goes away with time, best to embrace (and document) that novelty while it lasts.
• We’d probably start with something small, like surfacing failure counts on the console to encourage you to see the whole stack.

First Week

• Our web console is probably the #1 touch point for our users, but also something we’ve spent the least amount of time on across our system. Your task is to fix that.
• There are obvious gaps in our existing console (e.g. we don’t even have a page where you an see all the CI jobs ever run for your repository, we don’t stream logs in real time for CI, etc.), so we’d pick a small one and start there.
• Maybe next we’d try adding GitHub Auth as a supported login type which is mostly front-end work with a little database work.
• We might then begin an attempt to revamp the landing page, to be more of a dashboard and less focused on our first product. Overall we eventually need to design pages that provide value to users every day (that they would bookmark or share), rather than our current console that is primarily a CRUD interface onto our database.

First Month

• As you need it, we have a designer on contract you can work with, alternatively you’re empowered to just implement things. There are only 4 of us and while we’re here to help, the doer decides.
• Over time you’ll add more testing to our typescript code (our Dart code has 100% coverage our typescript close to 0%).
• Design and implement display of per-app daily active users within our console (will require some backend work, some client-library work, and a TOS update).
• Design and implement display of icons (or other per-app metadata) within the console (will require standing up a processing service on app upload, something we recently added infrastructure to make easy).

First Quarter

• You’ll talk to our customers (over Discord, slack, email).
• You’ll design and implement a dashboard/status page you’d want to visit every day.
• You’ll design and implement pages users will want to share around with their teams.
• You’ll also add whole features (and products) like a “force upgrade” product (which is mostly console work with a little bit of backend for something like package:upgrader), or adding new user role types (like view-only), or exposing an audit-log for enterprise customers. All of these are mostly web-work, but require being comfortable moving across the stack.

Essentially you’re job is to help us build a modern B2B Saas, focused from a Web/Front-end perspective, but because we’re a small team (2 engineers) that means, working across the stack (mostly in typescript and Dart) to ship what you need to.