Senior iOS Engineer

6 Months ago • 8 Years + • Mobile Development • $180,000 PA - $225,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Cantina is a new social platform with an advanced AI character creator, allowing users to build, share, and interact with AI bots. As a Senior iOS Engineer, you will lead the development of innovative features like personalized feeds and custom UIs, integrating advanced bot capabilities such as chatting, text-to-speech, voice selection, and image creation. You will collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Sean Parker to influence the product's direction, deliver impactful updates quickly, and bring your ideas to life. The role emphasizes pushing iOS development limits, creating visually stunning and high-performance features, and utilizing custom graphics expertise to enhance the flagship app's creative foundation and user experience within the social AI space.
Must have:
  • 8+ years iOS development experience
  • Readable, maintainable, documented, tested code
  • Fluent in Swift, UIKit, Objective-C
  • Experience with RESTful APIs
  • Experience with Git
  • Translate product/UX/UI requirements to code
  • Evaluate and communicate engineering solutions
  • Create scalable, reusable components
  • Attention to detail, space, animation
Good to have:
  • Basic understanding of Figma
  • Export icons and understand variables
Perks:
  • 99% paid medical, vision, dental premiums
  • One Medical membership
  • $500/month wellness stipend
  • 15 PTO days, 10 sick days, all Federal holidays, 2 floating holidays
  • 401(K) eligibility on day one
  • Parental Leave & Fertility Support
  • Competitive Salary & Equity
  • Lunch and snacks for in-office employees
  • WFH equipment for hybrid/remote employees

Job Details

A bit about Cantina:

Cantina, founded by Sean Parker, is a new social platform with the most advanced AI character creator. Build, share, and interact with AI bots and your friends directly in the Cantina or across the internet.

Cantina bots are lifelike, social creatures, capable of interacting wherever humans go on the internet. Recreate yourself using powerful AI, imagine someone new, or choose from thousands of existing characters. Bots are a new media type that offer a way for creators to share infinitely scalable and personalized content experiences combined with seamless group chat across voice, video, and text.

If you're excited about the potential AI has to shape human creativity and social interactions, join us in building the future!

A bit about the role:

As a Senior iOS Engineer at Cantina, you’ll lead the development of innovative features, from crafting personalized feeds and immersive custom UIs to empowering bots with advanced capabilities like chatting, text-to-speech, voice selection, and image creation. Working closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Sean Parker, you’ll influence the direction of a product central to the company’s mission, move quickly to deliver impactful updates, and enjoy the autonomy to bring your ideas to life.

We’re looking for someone who thrives on pushing the limits of iOS development and has a passion for creating visually stunning, high-performance features. Your expertise in custom graphics will help shape the creative foundation of our flagship app, elevating both user experience and innovation in the social AI space.

A bit about the work:

  • Work with frameworks and technologies like UIKit, AVFoundation, Combine and more

  • Lead development of new features

  • Be part of an incredibly supportive team that values feedback, both positive and for career growth

  • Work with our cross-functional partners, including Product, Design, and QA teams

  • Participate in Architecture meetings to help ensure our apps meet the highest quality standards

  • Ownership—be part of a small team that ships an application to a large user base

A bit about you:

  • 8+ years of experience developing iOS applications, or equivalent education.

  • Ability to write code that is readable, maintainable, documented, and thoroughly tested.

  • Fluency in Swift, UIKit, and Objective-C.

  • Experience developing integrations with RESTful APIs.

  • Experience with Git.

  • Basic understanding of Figma, can determine spacing and sizing. Bonus: you can export icons and understand how variables work.

  • Ability to effectively translate Product, UX, and UI requirements into code implementation.

  • Able to evaluate and communicate engineering solutions and trade-offs to teammates and other, potentially non-technical teams

  • Can create scalable and reusable components that are flexible and can be changed without affecting unrelated views

  • Attention to detail, space, and animation

Location:

We have offices located in Sunnyvale, CA, San Francisco, CA and Brooklyn, NY. While we have a strong focus on individuals near our office hubs, we prefer remote and hybrid employment opportunities in the Pacific Time Zone (PT).

Pay Equity: 

In compliance with Pay Transparency Laws, the base salary range for this role is between $180,000-$225,000 for those located in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City and Seattle, WA. When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered, including skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.

Benefits:

  • Health Care —  99% of premiums for medical, vision, dental are fully paid for by Cantina, plus One Medical membership.

  • Monthly Wellness Stipend — $500/month to use on whatever you’d like! 

  • Rest and Recharge — 15 PTO days per year, 10 sick days, all Federal holidays, and 2 floating holidays.

  • 401(K) — Eligible to participate on day one of employment.

  • Parental Leave & Fertility Support 

  • Competitive Salary & Equity 

  • Lunch and snacks provided for in-office employees. 

  • WFH equipment provided for full-time hybrid/remote employees.

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About The Company

Cantina, founded by Sean Parker, is a new social platform with the most advanced AI character creator. Build, share, and interact with AI bots and your friends directly in the Cantina or across the internet. Cantina bots are lifelike, social creatures, capable of interacting wherever humans go on the internet. Recreate yourself using powerful AI, imagine someone new, or choose from thousands of existing characters. Bots are a new media type that offer a way for creators to share infinitely scalable and personalized content experiences combined with seamless group chat across voice, video, and text.

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