Kotlin Multiplatform 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 a Kotlin Multiplatform Engineer at Cantina, you’ll be the architect of our shared-code strategy — building the foundation that powers our experiences across Android, iOS, and web from a single Kotlin codebase. You’ll work at the cutting edge of the KMP ecosystem, shipping production code to real users on multiple platforms, while keeping platform-specific layers feeling truly native.
We’re looking for a Kotlin expert who has been in the trenches with KMP — someone who has wrestled with interop edge cases, navigated the wasm target, and shipped Compose Multiplatform UI that feels polished everywhere.
What You'll Do:
- Design and build shared KMP modules covering networking, data persistence, business logic, and domain models used across Android, iOS, and wasm targets.
- Ship production-grade Compose Multiplatform UIs that feel native and performant on Android, iOS, and web.
- Build optimized platform-specific targets — leveraging Swift/Obj-C interop for iOS and Kotlin/Wasm for web — to meet the performance and UX bar of each platform.
- Architect clean platform-expect/actual boundaries and maintain Kotlin/Native and Kotlin/JS interop layers.
- Set up and manage Koin Multiplatform for dependency injection across all targets, ensuring clean and testable module graphs.
- Collaborate with platform teams (iOS, Android, web) to align on shared APIs, versioning, and release cadences.
- Drive KMP best practices across the organization — tooling, testing strate...