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.

As a Software Developer - iOS , you won’t just build apps—you’ll shape the systems, architecture, and tooling that make them possible. At TextNow, Members of Technical Staff combine leadership and hands on coding to enable the highest leverage opportunities possible. Being able to operate strategically, as well as diving into the lowest level details is a must.

You’ll take technical ownership of key mobile domains and work across mobile, backend, and data to create faster, smarter, more reliable products. As well, AI and automation are at the core of how we build. You’ll use them to accelerate development, improve performance, detect and resolve issues faster, and continuously raise the bar for mobile development excellence.

We’re hiring Members of Technical Staff across multiple levels (intermediate/senior/staff+). Whether you’re an experienced developer looking to lead complex systems, or an early-career developer eager to grow, we’ll align your title and scope based on experience and impact. You’ll shape how TextNow builds and operates its systems in an AI-first workplace where intelligent tooling is embedded into everyday engineering practice.

Using AI is not optional, it’s expected. From design and architecture to implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and operational analysis, you will actively leverage AI tools to increase velocity, improve code quality, and make better technical decisions. We provide a robust suite of AI-powered development tools and workflows to support you, and we expect you to continuously evolve how you use them to raise the bar for efficiency, clarity, and product excellence across the organization.

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; 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. A technical leader with the ability to create and lead roadmaps/initiatives that align to high-level business objectives 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.

Canada Intermediate: CAD $113,400 - $162,000 annually Canada Senior: CAD $158,000 – 207,000 annually Canada Staff: CAD $200,400 – 248,000 annually Within the range, individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

AI usage: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact our Talent Team.

Customer Obsessed

We strive to have a deep understanding of our customers. More complete details can be found in TextNow’s Benefit Guide and legal plan documents, which are available to employees on or shortly after their start date with TextNow. Free phone service 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 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 Dogfooding & Customer Obsession Dogfooding helps us experience what customers do, to spot issues early, and drive better design, developer, and user experiences.

Diversity and Inclusion 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. TextNow Candidate Policy By submitting an application to TextNow, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with the We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment.

If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact our Talent Team.

📌 Software Engineer I (Temporary) (Waterloo)
🏢 TextNow
📍 Waterloo