Senior Mobile SDK Engineer

 

 

 

 

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Mobile SDK Engineer to build mobile SDKs that enable large hotel brands and enterprise customers to embed Canary’s platform into their own apps. You’ll also contribute to our first‑party mobile apps used daily by hotel staff across the globe. The role blends product‑minded engineering, excellent developer experience design, and hands‑on ownership of performant, reliable mobile code at scale on iOS or Android (Swift or Kotlin). You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, Backend, and Customer teams to ship high‑quality experiences that are easy to integrate, secure, and delightful to use.

Own the design, development, and maintenance of Canary’s mobile SDKs (iOS and/or Android) that power guest and staff experiences for large hotel brands

Create best‑in‑class developer experiences: clear APIs, robust samples, documentation, and upgrade paths

Build features and UI components for our first‑party staff apps with a focus on reliability and performance

Partner with Product and Design to scope, sequence, and ship customer‑impacting work

Collaborate with Backend and Platform teams to define mobile‑server contracts and observability

Establish SDK versioning, release processes, and semantic change management

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

5+ years building mobile applications or SDKs on iOS or Android, with deep expertise in Swift or Kotlin

Proven experience designing, shipping, and supporting public SDKs consumed by external developers

Strong grasp of API design, modular architecture, semantic versioning, and backward‑compatibility strategies

Proficiency with mobile fundamentals: networking, concurrency, persistence, security, and performance optimization

Experience with mobile package managers and build systems (Swift Package Manager, CocoaPods, Gradle/Maven, Xcode Cloud, fastlane, or similar CI)

Quality mindset: unit and UI testing, automation, crash analytics, and observability best practices

Excellent written communication skills to produce samples and docs that make integration fast and painless

Self‑starter who thrives in ambiguity and partners closely with Product to deliver business impact

Experience on both iOS and Android, or cross‑platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter, KMP)

Backend familiarity in Python and cloud services such as AWS

Experience building for enterprise customers and handling release management at scale

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!