Senior iOS SDK Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior iOS SDK Engineer to build mobile SDKs enabling 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. 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 iOS SDKs 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, with deep expertise in iOS and Swift
• 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 iOS fundamentals: networking, concurrency, persistence, security, and performance optimization
• Experience with package managers and build systems: Swift Package Manager, CocoaPods, Xcode Cloud 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

• Kotlin/Android experience or cross‑platform frameworks (React Native, Flutter)
• Backend familiarity in Python and cloud services such as AWS
• Experience building for enterprise customers and handling release management at scale

The base salary range for this role is $100,000-$200,000 annualized salary. This is subject to standard withholding and applicable taxes. Actual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate’s skill level, experience, and specific work location. This role may also include the opportunity to earn a discretionary bonus and/or equity.