Full Scale named to the Inc. 5000 for the 5th time
Our Flutter engineers ship the AMC Theatres mobile app

Hire Flutter developers expertly trained on AI and product thinking

Hire dedicated Flutter developers from a staffing partner that has spent two decades placing senior engineers on mobile teams. We have shipped senior Flutter, Dart, and Firebase engineers in the Philippines for consumer apps, fintech, and cross-platform mobile teams. Every engineer on the bench is pre-vetted, full-time, and ready to start in as little as 7 days.

20+ yrs
Founder-led engineering leadership
$35/hr+
fully loaded, senior engineers
7 days
to your first hire
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Hire in as little as 7 days
93%+ retention

Flutter and mobile teams trusted by enterprises, scale-ups, and Fortune 500s

Matt Watson, Full Scale CEO and four-time tech founder
Matt Watson
Founder & CEO, Full Scale
Previously founded VinSolutions ($150M+ exit) and Stackify
A note from our founder

Full Scale Flutter engineers ship the AMC Theatres mobile app

Full Scale's Flutter work runs through real production systems. AMC Theatres, a Fortune 500 media company with 900+ cinemas worldwide, runs a Flutter mobile app that our engineers ship every week. The team is dedicated, embedded, and operates as a real extension of AMC's mobile organization. That is the engagement model we have spent years refining, and Flutter is one of the stacks where it pays off the most.

Mobile is unforgiving. App Store reviewers reject builds that crash on a first-generation iPad. Android device fragmentation surfaces bugs your iOS testers will never see. A senior Flutter engineer needs to read the performance overlay, reason about widget rebuilds, ship through the App Store and Play Store review processes, and know where Flutter does not cover the native API surface. That is a different skill set than knowing the Dart syntax, and it is what we hire for.

Today Full Scale staffs Flutter developers in the Philippines for consumer apps, fintech mobile, healthcare mobile, and enterprise platforms like AMC. We test on real state-management problems rather than tutorial questions, we run the team on the Product Driven framework, and we treat the engineers as full-time members of your team rather than interchangeable contractors. If you are serious about hiring offshore Flutter developers who can ship a production mobile app, you are in the right place.

4x
Tech founder
93%+
Engineer retention
Built different

AI-powered Flutter engineers, trained on Product Driven principles

Most mobile teams adopting AI are shipping more code without shipping better apps. The slop volume climbs, App Store review rejections follow, and developers whose only skill is typing faster end up costing more in cleanup than they save in keystrokes.

Full Scale Flutter developers are trained on something different: the Product Driven approach from Matt's book, combined with the full modern AI toolkit (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor). They think first, type second, and use AI for the parts where judgment doesn't add value. That combination is rare, and it is what mobile teams should actually be hiring for in 2026.

Pillar 1

Product Driven engineering

Our engineers are trained on the five pillars from Matt's book: Vision, Focus, Clarity, Ownership, and Courage. The result is developers who push back on bad product decisions, ask whether a ticket should exist before writing it, and own the outcome of what ships. They are not order takers.

Read Product Driven, the book
Pillar 2

AI as a thinking partner

Every Flutter engineer on our bench works with GitHub Copilot, Claude, and Cursor every day. They use AI to explore options, scaffold the boring parts, generate widget tests, and review their own pull requests before a human ever sees them. Judgment stays with the engineer, the grunt work moves to the machine.

Mobile users feel 60fps before they read your changelog. AI that pumps out widget code without product thinking ships apps that rebuild the world on every setState, and you find out about it in the App Store reviews. The Flutter engineers I want on my team think about the rebuild graph before they reach for Copilot. That's who we hire and train at Full Scale.

Matt Watson, Founder & CEO, Full Scale
Featured case study

The engineering team behind AMC Theatres

AMC Theatres
Fortune 500 client
Industry
Media & Entertainment
Engagement
Fully integrated team
Footprint
900+ theatres worldwide
Derrick Leggett, CIO of AMC Theatres: It's a fully integrated team. It's just some of the people happen to be living in the Philippines.
Pricing

Dedicated Flutter developers, starting at $35 an hour

That rate covers a senior Flutter engineer in the Philippines working full-time on your project, with payroll, benefits, HR, and equipment all handled by Full Scale. The same role hired locally in the US costs $150K to $195K a year, and that math is what drives most of our clients to call.

Starting at
$35/ hour
Per dedicated Flutter developer, fully loaded
Compared to US based hires
Roughly 40-50% of an equivalent US hire

Final rate depends on seniority and skill specialty.

What you get for that rate
  • Full-time, dedicated Flutter engineer
  • Pre-vetted by senior Flutter reviewers
  • Works your hours, your tools, your codebase
  • Payroll, HR, equipment, benefits handled by us
  • US-based account manager you can escalate to
  • Two-week money-back guarantee if it isn't a fit
Trusted operator

Full Scale has made the Inc. 5000 five years in a row and is Great Place to Work certified. We have been hiring Flutter developers in the Philippines since 2018. The rate is the easiest reason clients call us first, but retention and engineering quality are why they keep their engineers with us.

Why the Philippines

Why hiring Flutter developers in the Philippines works

You can also hire dedicated developers in the Philippines across every other stack we staff, with the same vetting bar, retention numbers, and engagement model that Flutter clients get.

English-fluent by default

The Philippines is the third-largest English-speaking country in the world. Standups, code reviews, and customer calls work the way they do with any US team member.

Real time-zone overlap

Most of our Flutter engineers shift their hours toward the US business day, giving 3-4 hours of real-time overlap with East and West Coast teams, so decisions happen live during shared hours rather than crawling through 24-hour async handoffs.

Deep mobile talent pool

Cebu and Manila produce tens of thousands of CS and IT graduates a year. Mobile development has been a focus area for Philippines computer science programs for over a decade, which means deep, ready talent in Flutter and across the broader iOS and Android stack.

Cultural alignment with US teams

Filipino engineers grow up on US business norms, US TV, and US tech culture, so agile rituals, direct feedback, and collaborative workflows feel familiar from day one. These teams integrate fast rather than needing constant management.

Why most offshore Flutter teams fail

Writing Flutter widgets is not the same as knowing mobile

Anyone who finished a Flutter tutorial can ship a screen. Building a Flutter app that holds up on production iOS and Android hardware requires a different bench entirely. When you outsource Flutter development or hire offshore Flutter developers, this is the gap that decides whether the app ships. Here is what we test for, and what most offshore staffing companies skip.

Architecture knowledge beyond widget composition

Junior developers ship screens. Senior Flutter engineers reason about clean architecture, feature module boundaries, state flow with Riverpod or Bloc, and when a pattern actually earns its complexity. We hire for that judgment.

State management that doesn't trash performance

We test for setState abuse, rebuilds on every keystroke, missing const constructors, and the difference between watching a provider and reading it once. Bad state code is the single most common cause of Flutter performance issues we see in production.

Firebase beyond "we added a Firestore listener"

Real backend expertise on Flutter teams covers Firebase Auth flows, Firestore security rules, FCM payload design, Cloud Functions, Crashlytics, and Remote Config feature flags. The bench is also stocked with engineers who can read a Crashlytics stack trace and know where to look when production breaks.

Native migration without the breakage

Moving a React Native or native iOS / Android codebase to Flutter is more than a screen-by-screen rewrite. We have done full Flutter migrations for production apps with millions of installs, which means we know where the landmines are before we start: deep links, push notifications, in-app purchases, and the platform APIs Flutter still does not cover.

Security and secure storage done right

Real security work in Flutter covers Keychain on iOS and Keystore on Android via flutter_secure_storage, certificate pinning, OAuth2 and OIDC flows, biometric auth, and the OWASP Mobile Top 10. It isn't a checklist exercise, and we test for engineers who understand the actual attack surface of a production Flutter app.

Production debugging skills

A senior Flutter engineer should be able to read the performance overlay, profile a slow scroll with Flutter DevTools, and walk through the Dart Observatory during a memory leak. Most offshore developers have never opened these tools.

What your dedicated Flutter developers will build

Hire dedicated Flutter developers for the work that actually matters

Most Flutter hiring conversations skip past the actual project. What kind of Flutter work do you need done? Greenfield custom mobile app development, a Firebase backend wire-up, a Flutter 3.x upgrade, a jank fix that has been open for six months? Because our Flutter developers are dedicated hires billed for engineering hours rather than a fixed-bid project, they ship across all of it. Here is the Flutter work our engineers get hired for most often.

Custom Flutter app development

Custom Flutter development means greenfield builds on the latest Flutter SDK with Riverpod or Bloc for state, Material 3 and Cupertino for platform-correct UI, and a real domain model rather than a widget-tree-shaped CRUD scaffold. The codebase survives the first 18 months without a rewrite, and your team can still reason about it on month 19.

Read our Flutter development guide

Cross-platform iOS and Android app development

Cross-platform Flutter work means one codebase that ships to App Store and Play Store with platform-correct behavior, gestures, and accessibility on each side. We test on real iOS and Android hardware, not just simulators, and we know where the platform divergences actually live (push notifications, deep links, in-app purchases, background work).

Flutter API integration and backend

We build REST and GraphQL clients with Dio, Retrofit, or Chopper, plus contract testing in CI with mocktail. Third-party integrations get proper retry logic, exponential backoff, and idempotency keys, which gives you an API layer the mobile app does not curse at when the network flakes on a train.

Firebase and Supabase Flutter backends

We build mobile backends on Firebase Auth, Firestore, FCM push, Cloud Functions, and Crashlytics, plus Supabase and Amplify when the project calls for it. Authentication flows, real-time sync, offline-first caching, and analytics are wired in from day one, with no "we shipped without crash reporting" surprises.

Legacy mobile to Flutter migration

We run production migrations from React Native, Cordova, native iOS, or native Android codebases onto Flutter without breaking active users. We know which platform APIs still need a platform channel, where Pigeon beats hand-rolled MethodChannel, and how to stage a screen-by-screen cutover so business does not stop. This is migration work we have done for systems with millions of installs.

Explore our mobile app development services

Flutter performance engineering and debugging

Our Flutter performance work covers Flutter DevTools, the Dart Observatory, the Flutter Inspector, the performance overlay, and shader compilation warmup when frames get jank. These are skills most offshore mobile shops have never developed, so hire us when your Flutter app is dropping frames and nobody knows why.

Hire Flutter engineers, mobile architects, Firebase specialists

Eight Flutter specializations, one staffing partner

Most Flutter teams need more than one role. Hire dedicated senior Flutter developers, mobile architects, Firebase specialists, and Flutter QA from a single vetted bench. Mix and match seniorities as the project requires. Many Flutter teams also hire dedicated UX designers from the same bench to own the cross-platform interface layer.

Senior Flutter Engineers

Senior Flutter devs own widget composition, state management, navigation, and the platform-correct behavior that separates a good app from a clone. They work fluently in Riverpod, Bloc, GoRouter, and Material 3 alongside Cupertino.

Mid to Staff

Flutter Mobile Architects

Architecture-focused engineers who design the clean architecture, feature module boundaries, and state flow for Flutter apps before code gets written. They work inside hexagonal or layered architecture from day one and set up the patterns the rest of the team builds on.

Senior to Staff

Cross-platform Flutter Developers

Engineers in this specialization ship one Flutter codebase across iOS, Android, and (when needed) Flutter Web and Desktop. They know where platform divergences actually live: push notifications, deep links, in-app purchases, and background work.

Senior

Dart Backend Engineers

Backend-on-Dart engineers ship server code on Dart Frog, Shelf, or Serverpod, plus shared Dart packages that run across the mobile client and the server. Useful when you want your mobile and backend teams sharing model code and validation logic.

Senior

Flutter DevOps Engineers

DevOps work on these teams covers CI/CD on Codemagic, Bitrise, fastlane, or GitHub Actions, plus code signing, App Store and Play Store release pipelines, and Firebase Distribution. They make Flutter releases boring in the good way.

Mid to Senior

Flutter Performance Engineers

When the app gets janky, these are the engineers you call. They run Flutter DevTools and the performance overlay, dig into shader compilation warmup, find rebuild-on-every-setState problems, and profile memory with the Dart Observatory.

Senior to Staff

Firebase / Backend Integration Engineers

Backend-integration engineers wire Flutter clients to Firebase Auth, Firestore, FCM, Crashlytics, Remote Config, and Cloud Functions, plus Supabase and AWS Amplify when projects call for it. They also handle GraphQL clients and REST integration with Dio or Retrofit.

Mid to Senior

Flutter QA & Golden Test Engineers

Our automation engineers write tests in flutter_test, mocktail, golden_toolkit, integration_test, and patrol against real Flutter apps on iOS and Android device clouds. They build the test pyramid you wish you had, with golden tests catching pixel-level regressions before release.

Mid to Senior
Hire Flutter developers by industry

Flutter expertise tuned to your industry

Staffing senior mobile engineers from the Philippines since 2018, we have placed dedicated Flutter developers into every industry that ships mobile apps. Domain knowledge cuts onboarding time in half, so we match developers to projects where they have already shipped real code.

Finance & FinTech

Production Flutter in finance means strict audit trails, secure storage with Keychain and Keystore, biometric auth, and zero tolerance for data anomalies. We have built and scaled Flutter mobile banking apps, lending workflows, and payment SDKs for regulated US companies. Cross-platform mobile finance is one of our most-staffed verticals.

Mobile bankingPaymentsBiometricsSecure storage
Hire Flutter developers across the full mobile stack

From greenfield Flutter apps to native mobile migrations

Whether you want to hire Flutter developers for a greenfield build, hire Firebase Flutter engineers for a backend wire-up, or outsource Flutter development on a legacy native iOS or Android codebase, the bench covers every layer of the mobile stack. Pick what you need. We will match a Flutter programmer fluent in it.

Core Framework
Flutter SDKDart 3Material 3CupertinoFlutter WebFlutter Desktop
State Management
RiverpodBloc / CubitProviderReduxGetXMobX
Data & Storage
DriftIsarHivesqfliteshared_preferencesflutter_secure_storage
Network & API
DioRetrofitChopperhttpGraphQLWebSocketgRPC
Testing & QA
flutter_testmocktailintegration_testpatrolgolden_toolkitMaestro
Backend & DevOps
FirebaseSupabaseAmplifyCodemagicBitrisefastlaneGitHub ActionsPigeonFFI
How to hire dedicated Flutter developers

Hire dedicated Flutter developers, two ways

Most clients start with a single dedicated Flutter developer and grow into a full team. Either way, you get full-time engineers who sit on your standups, work your hours, and ship code against your roadmap. Both options are staff augmentation at the core: dedicated, long-term engineers embedded in your team rather than freelancers, shared resources, or a project shop on the side.

Dedicated developer

Full-time, exclusive, sits on your standups.

Best for
Long-running products with a real roadmap.
What's included
  • Full-time Flutter engineer assigned only to your project
  • Works your hours, your tools, your codebase
  • Joins your standups, reports to your tech lead
  • We handle payroll, HR, equipment, retention
  • Two-week money-back guarantee

Dedicated team

Multiple engineers, embedded as a pod.

Best for
New mobile builds, full-stack mobile pods.
What's included
  • 2-10 Flutter engineers staffed together as one pod
  • Optional QA, DevOps, and tech lead included
  • Operates as a team inside your engineering org
  • Scale up or down by a head with 30 days notice
  • Account manager you can escalate to in the US
From first call to first commit in as little as 7 days

How to hire a dedicated Flutter developer from Full Scale

We skip the 3-6 week recruitment cycle and the cold sourcing entirely. Our bench of Flutter development talent in the Philippines is already built and vetted (here's how we screen engineers), and every step below has a named owner on our side.

01

Discovery call

Day 1

30 minutes with our team. We learn your stack, your roadmap, the seniority level you need, and the version of Flutter and Dart you're working in. We don't pitch on the call, we walk through what you actually need from a hire.

02

Engineer match

Days 2-3

We pull 1-3 pre-vetted Flutter engineers from the bench whose skills, seniority, and prior project experience line up with what you described. You see their full profile and their actual project history.

03

Technical interview

Days 3-5

You interview the candidates the way you would interview any senior hire: live widget composition, state management questions, Dart fundamentals, and architectural reviews. We test for real engineering judgment, not syntax quizzes. Pass anyone you don't believe in.

04

Contract & onboarding

Days 5-6

Sign once. We handle every contract, payroll, equipment, and HR detail in the Philippines so you don't have an offshore entity to manage. You just get a developer.

05

First commit

Day 7

Your developer joins your standups, gets repo access, and ships code in their first week. Our delivery managers stay involved to make sure ramp-up doesn't stall.

How we compare

Full Scale vs the other ways to hire a Flutter developer

Every hiring path has trade-offs. The freelance Flutter developer who looks great in a portfolio often ships code that works on an iOS simulator but crashes on Android release builds, skips golden tests entirely, and rebuilds the entire widget tree on every setState call. Here is how a dedicated Flutter engineer hired from Full Scale in the Philippines compares against the alternatives most teams consider first when they want to hire Flutter developers.

FeatureFull ScaleFreelancer / UpworkTraditional offshore agencyUS recruiter / FTE hire
Pre-vetted senior Flutter bench
Time to first hire7 days1-3 days3-6 weeks6-12 weeks
Dedicated full-time, not shared
Tests on real iOS and Android hardware
Founder-led engineering oversight
Sits on your standups, your tools
Long-term retention93%+lowvariesvaries
Two-week money-back guarantee
Handles payroll, HR, equipment
US-based account management
n/a
Typical fully-loaded cost vs US~40-50%varies~50-65%100%
Honest tradeoffs

When offshore Flutter is the wrong call

Most pages like this would tell you offshore Flutter is always the right move. It is not. Below are the cases where we have either passed on a project ourselves or told the client they should not hire dedicated engineers from anyone, us included. If any of these match what you are doing, we will say so on the discovery call rather than sign you up and hope it works out.

You don't have a real roadmap yet

Very early stage exploration where the spec changes weekly is the wrong fit for a dedicated engineer. What you need is a co-founder or a freelancer who can absorb the thrash. A long-term hire needs accumulated context to be productive, and that context is exactly what you do not have yet.

Your work is genuinely on-soil regulated

Certain DoD contracts, ITAR-covered systems, and a narrow slice of regulated workloads require US persons on US soil. If that is you, we will tell you on the call, not after the contract.

The scope is fixed and short

Think a one-time native-to-Flutter port of a single screen, a four-week refactor, or a single App Store release that ends on a known date. Hire a freelancer or a specialist consultancy for those. Dedicated developers earn their value over months and years, and a short fixed-scope job rarely runs long enough to pay back the ramp-up.

You can't actually fill a developer's time

If you only have 10 hours of well-defined work a week, a dedicated full-time engineer will end up idle or pulled into work you didn't budget for. That ends badly for both sides. Part-time engagements and fractional hires exist for this reason, and we are not them.

The bench

Real Flutter engineers, named and vetted

A sample of the Flutter engineers on our team. These are real Full Scale developers working remotely from across the Philippines, and you'll meet candidates like them during your interview round.

Richard O., Senior Flutter Developer at Full Scale
Richard O.
Senior Flutter Developer
Philippines 9 years

A senior Flutter developer with 9 years of experience across Flutter, React, and Vue.js.

FlutterReactVue.jsBootstrapjQueryAPI DevelopmentDjangoDocker
Archiel L., Flutter Developer at Full Scale
Archiel L.
Flutter Developer
Siquijor, Philippines 9 years

A Flutter developer who ships production work with Flutter, Next.js, and React.

FlutterNext.jsReactVue.jsBootstrapGitLaravelMySQL
Wyrlo T., Flutter Developer at Full Scale
Wyrlo T.
Flutter Developer
Cotabato, Philippines 9 years

A Flutter developer who ships production work with Flutter, Angular, and AngularJS.

FlutterAngularAngularJSJavaScriptTypeScriptVue.jsjQuery.NET
Van D., Senior Flutter Developer at Full Scale
Van D.
Senior Flutter Developer
Cebu, Philippines 10 years

A senior Flutter developer with 10 years of experience across Flutter, Dart, and Android Java.

FlutterDartAndroid JavaKotlinSwiftAndroidMySQLPostman
Shiela B., Flutter Developer at Full Scale
Shiela B.
Flutter Developer
Cebu, Philippines 7 years

A Flutter developer who ships production work with Flutter, .NET Framework, and .NET MAUI.

Flutter.NET Framework.NET MAUIASP.NETC#Xamarin.NET.NET Core
Why top US engineering teams pick Full Scale

The numbers behind a Flutter staffing partner that actually works

350+
Engineers on staff
across the Philippines
93%+
Annual retention
your team stays your team
7 days
To first commit
from discovery call to shipping
200+
US tech companies
trust Full Scale across stacks including Flutter
20+ yrs
In mobile and software
founder-led, hands-on engineering
<3%
Applicant acceptance rate
we hire the top of every batch
What clients say

From the people we actually staff teams for

Full Scale runs a dedicated Flutter team that operates as a real extension of AMC's mobile organization. The same Flutter engineers ship to the App Store and Play Store every release, and 900+ AMC theatres rely on what comes out the other side.

AMC Theatres
Fortune 500 media client, Flutter mobile app
Read the AMC Theatres case study
Frequently asked

Everything you wanted to know about hiring Flutter developers

Hire dedicated Flutter developers this week

Hire a dedicated Flutter developer who has actually shipped mobile apps before

Book a 30-minute discovery call to hire dedicated Flutter developers in the Philippines: mobile architects, Firebase specialists, and QA engineers from a single pre-vetted bench. We'll learn what you're building, walk you through which engineers fit your roadmap, and you'll meet candidates within a week. You won't get pressure or a sales pitch on the call.

First commit in as little as 7 days
Two-week money-back guarantee
Full-time dedicated