iOS Engineer – Senior to Staff Level

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🕒 March 27

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $180k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Cantina

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51 - 200 employees

Founded founded by Sean Parker

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🎮 Gaming

🌍 Social Impact

Artificial Intelligence • Gaming • Social Impact

Cantina is a company that specializes in creating advanced AI characters that can talk, feel, and capture their adventures with selfies. It offers a platform where users can unleash their AI bots in online communities, allowing these lifelike, social creatures to interact with humans. Cantina focuses on building networks of AI influencers and encourages users to explore and build their own collections of AI bots. The company's mission is to foster an interactive universe, inviting creativity and social interaction through digital personalities and AI technology.

📋 Description

• 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 our apps meet the highest quality standards. • Collaborate with Product, Design, and QA teams to deliver polished, scalable experiences. • Take ownership of features — be part of a small team that ships an application to a large user base. • Be part of an incredibly supportive team that values feedback, both positive and career-growth oriented.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience developing iOS applications, or equivalent education. • Fluency in Swift, UIKit, and Objective-C, with a strong foundation in custom graphics and animation frameworks. • Ability to write readable, maintainable, documented, and thoroughly tested code. • Experience developing integrations with RESTful APIs. • Proficiency with Git and version control workflows. • Basic understanding of Figma — able to determine spacing and 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 effectively translate Product, UX, and UI requirements into code. • Skilled at evaluating and communicating engineering solutions and trade-offs to teammates and potentially non-technical stakeholders. • Can create scalable and reusable components that are flexible and modular. • Attention to detail, motion, and animation.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous company equity • Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina • 42 days of paid time off, including: • 15 PTO days • 10 sick days • 15 company holidays • 2 floating holidays • Generous parental leave & fertility support • 401(k) retirement savings plan • Lifestyle spending account – $500/month to use however you’d like • Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees • One Medical membership, and more!