Own design, development, and release of Canary's staff and guest mobile apps on iOS or Android. Ship high-quality UI, ensure reliability, accessibility, and performance. Collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and Platform teams to define contracts, observability, release processes, testing, and on-call readiness. Mentor engineers and improve CI/CD and crash monitoring.
About Us
Canary Technologies is changing the game for hotels with modern software powered by Canary's hospitality-specific AI platform.
Canary is utilized by 20,000+ hoteliers in 100+ countries to equip hoteliers with the technology they need to work smarter and wow their guests. Major hotel brands such as Wyndham, Marriott, IHG, Four Seasons, Rosewood, and Best Western trust Canary to deliver results.
Canary was named a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ company, a Most Innovative Company by Fast Company and a HotelTechReport Best Place to Work — and is backed by top Silicon Valley investors like Y Combinator, F-Prime, Brighton Park Capital and Insight Partners.
Join us in shaping the future of hospitality!
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer to build and ship our first‑party mobile apps used daily by hotel staff and guests across the globe. You’ll own end‑to‑end feature delivery on iOS or Android (Swift or Kotlin), partnering closely with Product and Design to turn ideas into polished, performant, reliable experiences. The role is hands‑on and product‑minded, with high ownership over the apps that frontline hospitality teams rely on every shift. You’ll collaborate with Backend and Platform teams to evolve mobile–server contracts and raise the bar on quality, observability, and release velocity.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, development, and release of features in Canary’s first‑party staff and guest mobile apps
- Ship high‑quality UI and product flows on iOS or Android with a focus on reliability, accessibility, and performance
- Partner with Product and Design to scope, sequence, and deliver customer‑impacting work
- Collaborate with Backend and Platform teams to define mobile‑server contracts, error handling, and observability
- Establish and improve release processes, feature flags, and crash/regression monitoring
- Improve code quality through testing, automation, and thoughtful architecture
- Participate in code reviews and mentor other engineers
- Drive operational excellence including monitoring, logging, crash analytics, and on‑call readiness
Qualifications
- 5+ years building production mobile apps on iOS or Android, with deep expertise in Swift or Kotlin
- Proven experience taking features from spec to ship in a customer‑facing mobile product
- Strong grasp of mobile fundamentals: networking, concurrency, persistence, security, and performance optimization
- Comfortable with platform UI frameworks (SwiftUI/UIKit or Jetpack Compose/Views) and modern app architecture
- Experience with mobile CI/CD, distribution, and crash analytics (Xcode Cloud, fastlane, Gradle/Bitrise, Firebase Crashlytics, or similar)
- Quality mindset: unit and UI testing, automation, and observability best practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to work autonomously with Product and Design
- Self‑starter who thrives in ambiguity and ships business impact
Bonus
- Experience on both iOS and Android, or cross‑platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter, KMP)
- Familiarity with consuming third‑party SDKs in a host app at scale
- Backend familiarity in Python and cloud services such as AWS
- Hospitality, B2B, or SaaS background
We also work hard to ensure Canary is a fun and exciting place to work! Here are some of the additional benefits:
Canary Days: As a company we want to ensure that the team has time to recharge. Each month we provide company wide days off to ensure there is at least one extended weekend or day off.
Self Improvement Club: We meet each month and share our personal goals for the month. Each individual is provided a budget towards any purchases that help us achieve these goals.
Professional Development Chats: We provide budget to help drive cross functional professional development conversations across the organization.
Travel Reimbursement: Team members are able to visit our offices across New York, San Francisco or Dallas when they choose, and are provided a travel stipend for doing so. Spend time working with the team in their office, and use the rest of your time exploring a new city!
Personal Travel Reimbursement: If you stay at a hotel that Canary works with, we provide a credit towards your stay.
Canary Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote talent regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other protected characteristic.
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