7shifts is a scheduling and payroll platform designed to help restaurant teams thrive. With an easy-to-use app and industry-specific solutions, 7shifts saves time, reduces errors, and helps keep costs in check for over 55,000 restaurants. Our mission is to simplify team management and improve performance for restaurants, with a long-term vision of creating a thriving restaurant industry through the power of connected & engaged teams.

As a Junior Software Developer (Android) at 7shifts, you'll ship real work to an app used by 1M+ workers across 55,000 restaurants — while building your mobile engineering craft on a team that will actually invest in your growth. You'll report to our Senior Manager of Engineering, Mobile, and sit on a feature team with a product manager, designer, and frontend, backend, and mobile developers. Your closest working relationships will be with a Senior Android developer and the iOS developers on your team.

You'll also stay connected to the broader mobile team, contributing to the platform that underpins how we build and ship features. Our mobile mission: bring mobile expertise where it's needed, when it's needed. You'll learn our codebase, our patterns, and how we ship quality Android experiences at scale.

AI is part of how we work. You'll learn to bring it into your process early — using it deliberately to move faster and build better.

What You'Ll Do

: Ship features, with support: work alongside senior mobile developers to turn product

Requirements

into real Android features, from spec through release, building end-to-end ownership as you go Build strong fundamentals: write clean, tested Kotlin, build UI with Jetpack Compose, and learn the architecture and patterns that keep our app maintainable at scale Protect quality with our Support team: triage and resolve bugs, and help keep the app stable and performant for the people who rely on it every shift Manage competing priorities: balance your feature team's roadmap against injected work with hard deadlines, communicating early and leaning on your mobile team when target dates are at risk Grow through feedback: show up to code review, pairing, and 1:1s ready to learn, and act on the direct feedback you get Use AI deliberately: bring AI into your workflow to draft, explore, and iterate faster, while keeping ownership of what ships and always understanding the code you deliver What you bring: Fluency in Kotlin, and experience with the fundamentals of Android development: activities/fragments, lifecycle, layouts, and asynchronous patterns like coroutines Experience building UI with Jetpack Compose Experience working with RESTful APIs A foundational understanding of software principles, like SOLID Experience building an app with an architecture like MVVM You use AI to move faster, and you can explain what your code does, what you changed, and where you chose not to rely on it A learner's mindset: you ask good questions, seek out feedback, and iterate quickly instead of getting stuck Clear communication: you can explain your thinking, and you're comfortable asking for help when you're stuck It’d be even cooler if you had A personal or published app on Google Play Experience with Java and/or Swift Exposure to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) or unit/UI testing frameworks Coursework, projects, or interest in the restaurant, hospitality, or scheduling space The base

Compensation

range for this position is CAD $80,000 - $115,000. This range reflects the full growth path for the role, from building core skills to accomplished performance, through to role mastery. We typically target the accomplished level when hiring externally.

At this level, individuals bring relevant experience in the role, demonstrate strong job-related skills, operate with confidence and consistency, and are able to deliver impact with limited ramp-up while still having meaningful opportunity to grow.

at 7shifts is performance and growth-driven.