YC Alum Shorebird Hiring Senior Cloud Engineer
Flutter tooling startup Shorebird, a Y Combinator alum founded by ex-Google engineers, is actively hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead its cloud infrastructure. The opening highlights the demand for engineers with deep cloud expertise who can own and scale infrastructure at a high-growth startup. The role signals a need for skills beyond application development, focusing on the core platform that powers the product.
Shorebird was founded by Eric Seidel, the creator of Google's Flutter framework, to solve a major pain point in mobile development: slow release cycles. The company's core product, Code Push, allows developers to deliver instant over-the-air updates to their Flutter apps, bypassing the traditional App Store and Google Play review delays. This "code push" functionality is limited to updating Dart code, which controls the app's logic and user interface. It cannot be used to change native code (like Swift or Kotlin), the underlying Flutter engine, or assets such as images and fonts. This distinction is crucial for remaining compliant with app store policies. The company, founded in 2023, is backed by a $3 million seed round led by Accel, which was raised in September 2025. The investment also attracted notable angel investors from the developer tool ecosystem, including Neha Narkhede (co-founder of Confluent) and Paul Copplestone (founder of Supabase). Shorebird is building its business within the rapidly growing Flutter ecosystem. Flutter is a leading cross-platform framework, with some reports in 2025 indicating it holds over 42% of the market share, allowing developers to use a single codebase for apps on both iOS and Android. Major companies like BMW and ByteDance utilize Flutter for some of their applications. The need for a Senior Cloud Engineer signals Shorebird is focused on scaling the backend infrastructure that powers its update delivery and continuous integration (CI) services. A job posting from the founder mentioned the company's tech stack includes GCP, Cloudflare, C++, and Rust, and that they are building a custom compiler and runtime for the Dart language.
