TextNow, Inc.

Software Developer — iOS (US)

TextNow, Inc.
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15 days ago

Base Salary

$124k - $299k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and sustain high-performance iOS applications using Swift, SwiftUI, and Objective-C.
  • Own systems through ideation, API design, instrumentation, deployment, monitoring, testing, telemetry analysis, experimentation, and iteration.
  • Lead architectural modernization by decomposing monoliths, building shared libraries and frameworks, and improving modularization across iOS, Android, and Web.
  • Evaluate and roll out new Apple platform capabilities, operating system releases, device types, form factors, and architectures.
  • Build and extend the internal AI harness, including agents, automation frameworks, evaluation pipelines, and guardrails.
  • Define observability, telemetry, and fault-tolerance standards for production mobile systems.
  • Partner with product, design, backend, and data teams; mentor developers and influence technical strategy.
  • Own production reliability through instrumentation, SLOs/SLIs, telemetry pipelines, on-call participation, incident triage, and live diagnostics.

Requirements

  • Deep production experience building and operating consumer iOS applications with Swift and SwiftUI at significant scale, including ownership of an app with 1M+ monthly active users or comparable reach.
  • Strong command of modern Swift concurrency, including async/await and actors, plus Objective-C interoperability in large, long-lived codebases.
  • Architect-level experience designing modular, maintainable systems and making reliability and performance trade-offs.
  • Daily, fluent use of AI coding tools in production, with the ability to review and own the correctness, architecture, and quality of primarily AI-generated code.
  • Technical leadership across multiple teams, including ownership of major system architecture or modules, technical direction, and mentoring senior engineers.
  • Hands-on production reliability experience involving observability, instrumentation, SLOs/SLIs, telemetry pipelines, on-call rotation, incident triage, fault tolerance, and runbooks.
  • Demonstrated measurable improvements in performance, reliability, or user impact, along with experience influencing roadmaps and multi-team initiatives.
  • Strong performance optimization, observability, and system-level debugging skills; candidates should be comfortable operating with ambiguity, customer focus, and expanding ownership.

Benefits

  • Free phone service, employee stock options, unlimited vacation, and 12 paid holidays per year.
  • Health, dental, vision, short-term disability, and long-term disability benefits.
  • Annual wellness benefit or healthcare spending account, plus RRSP matching in Canada or 401(k) in the United States.
  • Parental leave for eligible employees and learning and development opportunities.
  • Strong work-life blend and travel several times a year for team events, company off-sites, and related activities.

Tech Stack

iOSObjective-CSwiftSwiftUI

Categories

Mobile
TextNow, Inc.

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201-500 employees
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