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 hundreds of 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 7 days.

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    Founder-led engineering leadership
    100s
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    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.

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    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
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    The engineering team behind AMC Theatres

    AMC Theatres
    Fortune 500 client
    Industry
    Media & Entertainment
    Engagement
    Fully integrated team
    Footprint
    900+ theatres worldwide

    It's a fully integrated team. It's just some of the people happen to be living in the Philippines.

    Derrick Leggett, CIO, AMC Theatres
    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
    • 30-day replacement guarantee if it isn't a fit
    Trusted operator

    Full Scale has made the Inc. 5000 four years in a row and is Great Place to Work certified. We have been doing this since 2018, and pricing isn't the only reason clients stay with our Flutter development company, it's the easiest reason to call.

    Why the Philippines

    The reason offshore Flutter works here

    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 work US business hours with 4-8 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. The full picture of why offshore engagements fail more often than they succeed is something I have written about at length.

    Architecture knowledge, not just 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.

    Flutter development services we deliver

    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? As a Flutter development company that bills for engineering hours rather than fixed-bid projects, our developers ship across all of it. Here are the Flutter development services we 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.

    Read the offshore Flutter developers guide

    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
    Flutter development services by industry

    Flutter expertise tuned to your industry

    As a Flutter development company staffing senior mobile engineers 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
    Flutter development services 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.

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    State Management
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    Network & API
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    Testing & QA
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    Backend & DevOps
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    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
    • Replace within 30 days if it isn't a fit
    From first call to first commit in 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, 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 from our development company 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
    Replace within 30 days if it's not a fit
    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 engineers we are currently staffing. You'll see real names and real backgrounds during your interview round.

    Senior Flutter Engineer
    Senior Flutter Engineer
    Cebu, Philippines 8 years

    Built and scaled consumer fintech apps on Flutter with Riverpod, offline-first sync, and Firebase Auth. Started on native Android in 2018 and moved to Flutter when Flutter 2 shipped, which makes platform-channel work feel familiar rather than mysterious.

    FlutterDart 3RiverpodFirebaseDrift
    Google Associate Android Developer
    Full-Stack Flutter Developer
    Full-Stack Flutter Developer
    Cebu, Philippines 6 years

    Backend-to-mobile feature delivery on Flutter apps paired with Supabase and Postgres. Has shipped end-to-end on three production B2B mobile platforms, including a healthcare patient app with HIPAA-grade secure storage.

    FlutterDartBlocSupabaseGraphQL
    Flutter Bootcamp (London App Brewery)
    Flutter Mobile Architect
    Flutter Mobile Architect
    Cebu, Philippines 11 years

    Mobile architecture specialist who has led production migrations from React Native and native Android to Flutter, including a Fortune 500 ticketing app. Strong on platform channels, Pigeon code generation, and CI release pipelines.

    FlutterBlocPigeonFirebasefastlane
    Google Associate Android Developer
    Flutter DevOps Engineer
    Flutter DevOps Engineer
    Cebu, Philippines 7 years

    Builds CI/CD for Flutter teams. Codemagic and Bitrise release lanes, fastlane for App Store and Play Store delivery, code signing, Crashlytics wire-up, and feature flags with Firebase Remote Config.

    CodemagicBitrisefastlaneFirebaseGitHub Actions
    Google Associate Cloud Engineer
    Senior Flutter Engineer, Performance
    Senior Flutter Engineer, Performance
    Cebu, Philippines 9 years

    Performance-focused engineer who has shipped high-throughput consumer apps for retail and travel. Comfortable reading the Flutter performance overlay, profiling with DevTools, and chasing jank back to a shader compilation problem.

    FlutterDartIsarDioRiverpod
    Apple App Development with Swift, Associate
    Flutter QA Automation Lead
    Flutter QA Automation Lead
    Cebu, Philippines 8 years

    Builds out test pyramids and CI gates for Flutter teams. Strong on widget tests, golden tests, and end-to-end Patrol scenarios across iOS and Android on real device clouds.

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    ISTQB Advanced

    Engineer names are anonymized on this page. You'll see real candidates during your interview round.

    Why top US engineering teams pick Full Scale

    The numbers behind a Flutter staffing partner that actually works

    300+
    Engineers on staff
    in Cebu, Philippines
    93%+
    Annual retention
    your team stays your team
    7 days
    To first commit
    from discovery call to shipping
    70+
    US tech companies
    trust Full Scale across stacks including Flutter
    20+ yrs
    In mobile and software
    founder-led, hands-on engineering
    100s
    Of Flutter programmers hired
    remote, dedicated, in the Philippines
    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
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