Software Developer — iOS (Canada)

TextNow; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 113,400 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free phone service

Unlimited vacation

Employee stock options

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Job summary

TextNow is seeking a Software Developer – iOS to design and develop high-performance iOS applications. This role combines leadership with hands-on coding, aimed at leveraging AI and automation to enhance product intelligence and developer velocity.

Responsibilities include leading architectural modernization, influence cross-platform reuse, and optimizing app performance. The salary ranges from CAD $113,400 to CAD $248,000 annually depending on experience level, with numerous benefits including unlimited vacation and employee stock options.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, and modern concurrency (async/await, actors).
• Proven track record of architecting modular, maintainable systems.
• Strong background in performance optimization, observability, and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance iOS applications.
• Lead architectural modernization and modularization.
• Drive technical discussions and mentor developers.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

Objective-C

AI and automation frameworks

Performance optimization

Job description

We believe that communication belongs to everyone. TextNow is redefining how people connect by combining simplicity, intelligence, and accessibility. We're a team of curious builders using technology to make communication more affordable and powerful for millions of users every day.

Software Developer – iOS – build apps, shape systems, architecture, and tooling. At TextNow, Members of Technical Staff combine leadership and hands‑on coding to enable the highest leverage opportunities.

You’ll use AI and automation at the core of building, accelerating development, improving performance, detecting and resolving issues faster, and continuously raising the bar for mobile development excellence.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and sustain high-performance iOS applications using Swift, SwiftUI, and Objective‑C.
• Lead architectural modernization and modularization to improve scalability and cross‑platform reuse.
• Define and own the entire lifecycle of your systems: feature ideation, API design, instrumentation, deployment (CI/CD), live‑traffic monitoring, unit/UI/e2e testing, user telemetry & data analysis, experiment design (A/B tests), and continuous iteration.
• Influence and evolve our architecture: propose and lead initiatives to decompose monoliths, build shared libraries and frameworks, improve modularization, enable reuse across iOS, Android, Web; evaluate new Apple platform capabilities and lead their adoption.
• Apply AI‑driven tools and automation frameworks to speed up development, code analysis, testing, and reliability.
• Leverage intelligent telemetry, analytics, and optimization pipelines to improve app performance and user experience.
• Define observability standards, telemetry pipelines, and fault‑tolerance strategies for production‑grade systems.
• Partner closely with product, design, backend, and data teams to deliver seamless, high‑quality user experiences.
• Drive technical discussions, mentor developers, and influence strategic direction across mobile platforms.

Who You Are

• A technical leader with the ability to create and lead roadmaps/initiatives that align to high‑level business objectives.
• Deep expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, and modern concurrency (async/await, actors).
• Proven track record of architecting modular, maintainable systems that balance speed and reliability.
• Strong background in performance optimization, observability, and system‑level debugging.
• Experience using AI and automation to improve developer velocity, reliability, or product intelligence.
• A collaborative technical leader who thrives in fast‑moving environments and mentors others to excel.
• Passionate about creating elegant, high‑performance mobile experiences across Apple's ecosystem.
• You architect for observability, reliability and production‑readiness: you understand instrumentation, SLOs/SLIs, fault‑tolerance, runbooks, incident triage, scalable telemetry pipelines, and production diagnostics for mobile clients.
• You have been a technical leader (not just an individual contributor): you've influenced roadmap decisions, contributed to multi‑team initiatives, mentored/led developers, driven culture/process improvements, and interfaced with senior developer/product leadership.

Salary

Canada Intermediate: CAD $113,400 – $162,000 annually

Canada Senior: CAD $158,000 – 207,000 annually

Canada Staff: CAD $200,400 – 248,000 annually

Benefits

• Free phone service
• Strong work/life blend
• Employee stock options
• Unlimited vacation
• 12 paid holidays per year
• Competitive pay
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Short‑term & long‑term disability
• $750 annual wellness benefit or healthcare spending account
• RRSP matching (Canada) | 401(K) (USA)
• Parental leave for eligible employees
• Learning & Development opportunities
• We travel a few times a year for various team events, company‑wide off‑sites, and more

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Applicants who require reasonable accommodation during the hiring process may contact our Talent Team.

This posting is for a current, active vacancy.