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 Engineer- Android, 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.

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 engineering excellence.

We’re hiring Members of Technical Staff across multiple levels (intermediate/senior/staff+). Whether you’re an experienced engineer looking to lead complex systems, or an early-career engineer eager to grow, we’ll align your title and scope based on experience and impact.

This role is about impact at scale. You’ll shape how TextNow builds and operates its backend systems—using AI and automation to make development faster, decisions smarter, and experiences more seamless for millions of users worldwide.

What You'll Do

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 engineers, 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 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 engineers, driven culture/process improvements, and interfaced with senior engineering/product leadership.

More about TextNow...

Customer Obsessed (We strive to have a deep understanding of our customers)
Do Right By Our People (We treat each other with fairness, respect, and integrity)
Accept the Challenge (We adopt a "Yes, We Can" mindset to achieve ambitious goals)
Act Like an Owner (We treat this company like it's our own... because it is!)
Give a Damn! (We are deeply committed and passionate about our work and achieving results)

Benefits, Culture, & More:

Strong work life blend
Flexible work arrangements (wfh, remote, or access to one of our office spaces)
Employee Stock Options
Unlimited vacation
Competitive pay and benefits
Parental leave
Benefits for both physical and mental well being (wellness credit and L&D credit)
We travel a few times a year for various team events, company wide off-sites, and more

Dogfooding & Customer Obsession:

At TextNow, every employee gets to actively use our app for calling and texting. Dogfooding helps us experience what customers do, to spot issues early, and drive better design, engineering, and user experiences.

Diversity and Inclusion:

At TextNow, our mission is built around inclusion and offering a service for EVERYONE, in an industry that traditionally only caters to the few who have the means to afford it. We believe that diversity of thought and inclusion of others promotes a greater feeling of belonging and higher levels of engagement. We know that if we work together, we can do amazing things, and that our differences are what make our product and company great.