Who You Are
We’re raising the bar. This role is not a fit for developers early in building production systems, and our screen reflects that. Strong candidates will clear most of the following:
- Deep Android expertise. Production mastery of Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Coroutines/Flow, plus comfort in legacy Java. You’ve shipped and operated consumer Android apps at meaningful scale.
- Architect-level judgment. A proven track record designing modular, maintainable systems that balance speed and reliability — and the ability to defend those trade-offs.
- Production-readiness as a default. You architect for observability and reliability: instrumentation, SLOs/SLIs, fault tolerance, runbooks, incident triage, scalable telemetry pipelines, and live production diagnostics for mobile clients.
- Genuine AI fluency. You already use AI across your development workflow and can speak specifically about where it helps, where it fails, and how you’ve improved on its output. You’re excited to generate most of your code with AI and to own the quality bar on top of it.
- Demonstrated technical leadership. You’ve influenced roadmaps, contributed to multi-team initiatives, mentored or led developers, driven process and culture improvements, and worked directly with senior engineering and product leadership.
- Performance and systems depth. Strong background in performance optimization, observability, and system-level debugging.
Minimum Qualifications
We’re transitioning from hiring coders to hiring technologists — people who exercise judgment, learn relentlessly, and use AI as a force multiplier, rather than people who simply execute tickets. For the senior candidates this role targets, that judgment shows up as a track record.
- Deep experience building production Android applications with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. We care less about tenure and more about the complexity of the problems you’ve solved, the systems you’ve shipped, and the engineering decisions you’ve led.
- You’ve personally owned and operated a consumer Android app at significant scale — 1M+ monthly active users or comparable — across many release cycles. Contributing to such an app is not the same as owning it.
- Daily, fluent use of AI coding tools in real production work today, with the comfort to let AI generate the majority of your code while you own correctness, architecture, and quality.
- Deep command of Kotlin Coroutines and Flow, and Java interop within a large, long-lived codebase.
- Technical leadership across multiple teams: you’ve owned the architecture of a major system or module, set technical direction, and mentored senior engineers.
- Hands-on ownership of production reliability for mobile clients: SLOs/SLIs, instrumentation and telemetry pipelines, on-call rotation, and incident triage.
- A track record of measurable wins – performance, reliability, or user impact — that you drove, not just participated in.
The expected base salary range for this role is:
Canada Intermediate: CAD $113,400 - $162,000 annually
Canada Senior: CAD $158,000 – 207,000 annually
Canada Staff: CAD $200,400 – 248,000 annually
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Our goal is to offer a competitive package that reflects the impact and expertise you bring to the team.
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. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact our Talent Team.
More about TextNow
Our culture
We’re proud of the culture that we’ve built at TextNow, but one of the most common questions we hear is ‘how do you continue to sustain it as the world and the company continues to change?’ The reality is that we’re only able to keep up because each and every TextNovian contributes to our culture through being involved, by living our values, sharing feedback, embracing change and more!
Our values
Customer Obsessed
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