Software Developer – Backend

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🕒 January 17

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TextNow

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

📡 Telecommunications

Telecommunications

TextNow is a revolutionary phone service provider offering free and flexible phone services. It provides users with unlimited talk and text, as well as essential data, all on the nation's largest 5G network through a convenient app. With TextNow, users can get a free phone number or transfer their existing number and take advantage of nationwide coverage. Moreover, TextNow offers customizable data plans that can be chosen based on specific needs. The service is supported by advertising partnerships, making it possible for users to enjoy these offerings at no cost. TextNow serves as an accessible alternative to conventional mobile service providers and other programs like the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP).

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain high-performance, scalable backend services using **Go** microservices and modern cloud-native tooling. • Lead architectural modernization and modularization to improve scalability, observability, and developer velocity. • Define and own the entire lifecycle of your systems: API design, data modeling, deployment (CI/CD), live-traffic monitoring, integration and load testing, telemetry & data analysis, experiment design (A/B tests), and continuous iteration. • Influence and evolve our architecture: propose and lead initiatives to decompose monoliths, migrate legacy code, build shared frameworks and reusable service components; evaluate new backend technologies and lead their adoption. • Apply AI-driven tools and automation frameworks to speed up development, code analysis, testing, and reliability. • Leverage intelligent telemetry, analytics, and optimization pipelines to improve service performance and resilience. • Define observability standards, telemetry pipelines, and fault-tolerance strategies for production-grade distributed systems. • Partner closely with product, mobile, and data teams to deliver seamless, high-quality experiences across all platforms. • Drive technical discussions, mentor developers, and influence strategic direction across backend and infrastructure domains.

🎯 Requirements

• A technical leader with the ability to create and lead roadmaps/initiatives that align to high-level business objectives. • Deep expertise in Go, with additional experience in PHP for legacy systems is a bonus. • Proven track record of architecting modular, maintainable, and high-performance microservices. • Strong background in system design, observability, and performance optimization. • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Protobuf, CI/CD pipelines, and auto-scaling architectures. • Experience using AI and automation to improve developer velocity, reliability, or system intelligence. • A collaborative technical leader who thrives in fast-moving environments and mentors others to excel. • Passionate about building resilient, intelligent, and highly scalable backend systems that serve millions of users. • You architect for observability, reliability, and production-readiness: you understand instrumentation, SLOs/SLIs, fault-tolerance, runbooks, incident triage, scalable telemetry pipelines, and production diagnostics for backend systems. • You have been a technical leader (not just an individual contributor): you’ve influenced roadmap decisions, contributed to multi-team initiatives, mentored/led developers, driven culture/process improvements, and interfaced with senior developer/product leadership.

🏖️ Benefits

• Free phone service • Strong work life blend • Flexible work arrangements (work-from-home, remote, or access to one of our office spaces) • Employee stock options • Unlimited vacation • 12 paid holidays per year • Competitive pay • Health, dental, and vision benefits • Short-term & long-term disability • $750 annual wellness benefit or healthcare spending account • RRSP matching (Canada) • Parental leave for eligible employees • Learning & Development opportunities