Software Developer – Android

TextNow

Software Developer - Android responsible for developing high-performance applications at TextNow. Leading architectural modernization and employing AI for efficient mobile development.

Posted 7/27/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $136,300 - $298,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidiOSJavaKotlin

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, and sustain high-performance Android applications using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Java.
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 Android, iOS, and Web; evaluate new Android platform capabilities (e.g., new OS releases, device types, form factors, architectures) 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A technical leader with the ability to create and lead roadmaps/initiatives that align to high-level business objectives.
Deep expertise in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and modern concurrency tools such as Coroutines and Flows.
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 Android’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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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