Senior iOS Engineer

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!

About the role

As a Senior iOS Engineer, you will be partnering with Product Managers, Designers, and Sean Parker to utilize your extensive knowledge of iOS in leading and executing our flagship app. Your primary objective will be to build new features as well as  elevate the performance and quality across all facets of our app for human and AI bot.

What you’ll do:

• Work with frameworks and technologies like SwiftUI, 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
  
  

Requirements

• 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, SwiftUI, 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 offer fully remote and hybrid employment opportunities, our team strongly desires candidates to be available to work in the Bay Area or within the Pacific Time Zone (PST). 

Pay Equity: 

In compliance with Pay Transparency Laws, the base salary range for this role is between $180,000-$225,000. When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered, including skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.

Benefits:

• Flexible working arrangements – remote, office, or hybrid – the choice is often yours. We are open to ensuring quality candidates don’t experience barriers to success.

• Health Care –  99% company-paid health care, dental and vision (through amazing providers).  Taking care of our employees and their covered dependents is one way we demonstrate we care.

• $500 Monthly Stipend  – Used for food, fun, travel, education to name a few… In general, almost anything goes.

• Mental wellbeing support – Access to an EAP (personal issues/financial/substance counseling), online  therapy for mental health, is one more way we demonstrate our care.

• Equity – Full-time employees are rewarded with equity – we all have a shared stake in Cantina’s success.

• 401(K) — Eligible to participate on day one of employment – save for your future!

• Short and Long Term Disability — Company paid.

• Life Insurance — 1x base pay, 100% company paid.

• Maternity/Paternity/Adoptive Leave — Generous maternity/paternity benefits.

• PTO — 15 paid PTO/vacation days per calendar year.

• Holidays — 13 paid holidays per calendar year.

• Sick Pay — 9 sick days per calendar year.

• Discounts — through Smart Perks.

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