TextNow
Messaging Apps
22open roles
$115kmedian advertised pay
Growinghiring pace, 65 of 100
200+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
TextNow is a mobile app company offering free calling and texting to millions of users. Its product and engineering teams in San Francisco and Waterloo hire product designers, lifecycle marketers, data scientists and software developers working on AI features. The company is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.
How TextNow hires
Truth index
C 58/100
Ghost roles
69%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
TextNow scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 26 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 69% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.05%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
5
best: 3 points
Jobs
$136k – $274k per year · In office · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
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$81k – $116k per year · In office · 5+ years exp · Waterloo
Anomaly Detection
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
CI/CD
AWS
GitHub
IAM
Cybersecurity
Crowdstrike
Least Privilege
Threat Modeling
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≈ $135k – $247k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
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$84k – $120k per year · In office · 3+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
SQL
Scala
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Spark
dbt
Flink
DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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$81k – $116k per year · In office · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Waterloo
Python
SQL
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
dbt
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Analytics
Tableau
A/B Testing
Looker
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$81k – $116k per year · In office · 5+ years exp · Waterloo
Python
Go
TypeScript
Ruby
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
OpenAI
Anthropic
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$136k – $274k per year · Equity · Hybrid · 5+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
Go
TypeScript
Ruby
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
OpenAI
Anthropic
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$81k – $116k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Waterloo
Java
Kotlin
Kotlin Coroutines
AI/ML
LLM Guardrails
Mobile
Jetpack Compose
Modularization
DevOps
CI/CD
SLI/SLO/SLA
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$136k – $274k per year · Hybrid · San Francisco
Swift
Objective-C
Swift Concurrency
AI/ML
LLM Guardrails
Mobile
SwiftUI
Modularization
DevOps
CI/CD
SLI/SLO/SLA
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$81k – $116k per year · Hybrid · Waterloo
Swift
Objective-C
Swift Concurrency
AI/ML
LLM Guardrails
Mobile
SwiftUI
Modularization
DevOps
CI/CD
SLI/SLO/SLA
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$136k – $274k per year · In office · 7+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
Go
Terraform
CloudFormation
Datadog
Prometheus
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
DNS
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$81k – $116k per year · In office · 7+ years exp · Waterloo
Python
Go
Terraform
CloudFormation
Datadog
Prometheus
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
DNS
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$115k
Typical range
$68k – $274k
Open positions
22
16
Jobs
Junior
12.5%
Middle
18.8%
Senior
50%
Staff
18.8%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $85k | $68k – $102k |
| Middle | 3 | $115k | $115k – $120k |
| Senior | 8 | $115k | $115k – $274k |
| Staff | 3 | $159k | $115k – $274k |
Highest paying role
Software Developer - Android (US)
$274k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at TextNow
By role, level and city, against the market · 22 jobs with pay
Visa sponsorship
1 ▼ 80%
H-1B filings in 12 months
1
Green card filings
$183k
Median offered salary
Who they sponsor
Software developers
1
In the register as TextNow Inc., San Francisco, CA (+2 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Apr 3, 2026 · Visa details by country
0
Positions approved through LMIA in 12 months
11
Open roles in Canada
In the register as TextNow, Waterloo, Ontario
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ESDC · checked Oct 3, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
26
2 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
142 days
faster than 8% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Data Science
25% ▲
Security
25% ▼
Legal
25% ▲
Design
13% ▲
Marketing
13% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Canada
Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack
Oct 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Braze to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tableau to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added GCP to stack
Sep 2026
Added TypeScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added Ruby to stack
Sep 2026
Added Prompt Engineering to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at TextNow over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
64
Postings analysed
22
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python41%
Go27%
SQL18%
Scala14%
Frameworks & libraries
Flink14%
Jetpack Compose9%
React.js9%
SwiftUI9%
Databases
Snowflake18%
Cloud & platforms
AWS59%
Kubernetes32%
GitHub18%
Databricks18%
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Waterloo
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Waterloo
Canada
HQ
Waterloo, Ontario - Hybrid
11 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 82% engineering 50-200 est. staff $111k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Data Science, Mobile
San Francisco
United States
Engineering / R&D
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
13 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 69% engineering 50-200 est. staff $222k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Data Science, Mobile