# Software Developer — iOS (US)

Communication belongs to everyone. TextNow is one of the largest providers of free phone service in North America, connecting tens of millions of people who would otherwise be priced out of staying in touch. We pair a free, ad-supported tier with paid plans and a growing set of intelligent features - and we run it on infrastructure we own and operate. We move fast, we measure what we ship, and we treat AI as a core part of how we build, not a side experiment. What You'll Do As a Software Developer on iOS, you'll own the systems, architecture, and tooling behind apps used by millions - operating strategically across mobile, backend, and data, and diving into the lowest-level details when the problem demands it. This is an AI-first role: using AI is not optional, it's the expectation. We anticipate the majority of the code you ship will be AI-generated, with you as the architect, reviewer, and final authority on quality, correctness, and design. You'll have access to the latest and greatest AI development tools, and you'll help build our AI harness - the agents, workflows, evaluations, and guardrails the rest of engineering relies on. We hire across multiple levels (intermediate, sen

- **Id**: 822824
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/textnow-software-developer-ios-us>
- **Role**: Mobile
- **Role family**: Mobile
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-08T17:06:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T23:33:28Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 182
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10535
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Messaging Apps

## Company

- **Id**: 686311
- **Name**: TextNow
- **Domain**: textnow.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/textnow-2>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 58
- **Open postings**: 26
- **Ghost share**: 0.692
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 136300
- **Max**: 273900
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 273900

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Modularization** — Optional: no
- **Objective-C** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Swift** — Optional: no
- **Swift Concurrency** — Optional: no
- **SwiftUI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 181

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T13:26:28Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 3
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.1
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 181
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 273900
- **Is top pay**: yes

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