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 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.
Responsibilities
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
Qualifications
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
Bonus
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
