Android Engineer - AI Media & Real-Time UX (Remote)

Cantina; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical and dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement plan

Parental leave and fertility support

42 days PTO

Job summary

Cantina is seeking an experienced Android lead to drive the development of a social AI product. You will own feature delivery, app architecture and performance tuning while collaborating closely with product and design.

Role focuses on Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, audio/video pipelines, AI-enabled visuals and polished interfaces. This remote role is based in the United States, offering strong compensation and equity.

Qualifications

• Production Android apps with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Deep knowledge of Android internals and memory management.
• Experience with MVVM, DI, REST APIs, Git workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship Android features using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and modern patterns.
• Develop audio/video pipelines, camera experiences, real-time effects and AI visuals.
• Create custom interfaces with Compose animations and motion design.
• Diagnose performance issues across rendering, memory, battery and GC.
• Maintain an MVVM structure with scalable DI and clean layers.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and maintain readable, tested code.

Skills

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

MVVM

Dependency Injection

REST APIs

Git workflows

Animation quality

AI features

WebRTC Android

Tools

ExoPlayer

MediaCodec

Camera2

CameraX

Koin

Hilt

Job description

Cantina is seeking an experienced Android lead to drive the development of a social AI product. You will own feature delivery, app architecture and performance tuning while collaborating closely with product and design.

Role focuses on Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, audio/video pipelines, AI-enabled visuals and polished interfaces. This remote role is based in the United States, offering strong compensation and equity.