Senior iOS SDK Engineer

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 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

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.