iOS Engineer (Senior-Staff Levels)
Cantina · California
About this role
## About Cantina Cantina Labs is a social AI company building advanced real-time models that push the boundaries of expression, personality, and realism. We bring characters to life and transform how people tell stories, connect, and create. ## About the Role As an **iOS Engineer (Senior-Staff Levels)** at Cantina, you’ll lead the development of innovative, high-performance features—from personalized feeds and immersive custom UIs to empowering bots with AI-driven capabilities such as chatting, text-to-speech, voice selection, image creation, and real-time media effects. You’ll work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and **Sean Parker**, helping shape a product central to the company’s mission. You’ll move quickly to deliver impactful updates with the autonomy to bring your ideas to life. ## What You’ll Do - Work with frameworks and technologies like **UIKit, AVFoundation, Combine, Core Animation**, and more - Lead development of new **AI and media-driven features** - Build and optimize **video/audio pipelines**, **real-time media effects**, and **AI-powered visual features** - Participate in **Architecture** meetings to help ensure top-quality standards - Collaborate with **Product, Design, and QA** to deliver polished, scalable experiences - Take ownership of features in a small team shipping to a large user base - Contribute in a supportive environment that values feedback and career growth ## What You’ll Bring - **8+ years** of experience developing iOS applications (or equivalent education) - Fluency in **Swift, UIKit, and Objective-C**, with strong foundations in custom graphics and animation frameworks - Ability to write **readable, maintainable, documented, and thoroughly tested** code - Experience integrating with **RESTful APIs** - Proficiency with **Git** and version control workflows - Basic understanding of **Figma** (spacing/sizing; bonus if you can export icons and understand variables) - Experience with **video editing**, **real-time media effects**, or **AI-driven media features** is a plus - Ability to translate **Product/UX/UI requirements** into code - Skilled at evaluating and communicating engineering solutions and trade-offs - Can create **scalable, reusable, modular** components - Strong attention to detail, motion, and animation ## Compensation - Anticipated annual base salary range: **$180,000–$240,000** - Factors considered: skills, experience, scope, location, and market data ## Benefits - Competitive salary and generous company equity - Medical, dental, and vision insurance (**99.99% of premiums covered**) - **42 days** paid time off: 15 PTO, 10 sick days, 15 company holidays, 2 floating holidays - Generous parental leave & fertility support - **401(k)** retirement savings plan - Lifestyle spending account (**$500/month**) - Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees - One Medical membership, and more!
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