Android Engineer (Senior-Staff Levels)

About Cantina:

Cantina Labs is a social AI company, developing a suite of advanced real-time models that push the boundaries of expression, personality, and realism. We bring characters to life, transforming how people tell stories, connect, and create. We build and power ecosystems. Cantina, our flagship social AI platform, is just the beginning.

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 an Android Engineer at Cantina, you’ll lead the development of innovative, high-performance features — from crafting personalized feeds and immersive custom UIs to empowering bots with AI-driven capabilities like chatting, text-to-speech, voice selection, image creation, and real-time media effects. 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 Android development and has a passion for creating visually stunning, high-performance experiences. Your expertise in custom graphics, animation frameworks, and media pipelines will help shape the creative foundation of our flagship app.

What you'll do:

- Build and ship high-quality Android features using Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Coroutines, and modern Android architecture patterns.

- Develop and optimize video/audio pipelines, real-time media effects, and AI-powered visual features on Android.

- Craft immersive custom UI experiences with deep expertise in Compose animations, custom drawing, and motion design.

- Leverage deep Android internals knowledge — memory management, rendering pipeline, Choreographer, RenderThread — to deliver buttery-smooth performance.

- Architect and maintain clean MVVM application structure with well-separated concerns across UI, domain,...