Senior Software Engineer, II - Life360

About Life360

Life360's mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with services including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 102.4 million monthly active users across more than 180 countries.

Life360 is a Remote First company with more than 500 remote employees.

AI Native Environment

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role; candidates may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools or complete exercises without AI assistance.

About The Team

This role sits on the Verticals team within Life360—the group building the next frontier of meaningful connection beyond the core family circle. The team's initial focus is Aging in Place: helping aging parents stay safely independent while giving families around them real peace of mind. Over time, scope may expand to support other emerging verticals such as Things (Tile) or Pets.

We are a product-minded, AI-Native engineering team that treats AI as a first-class collaborator at every stage: ideation, coding, testing, review, and iteration.

About the Job

As a Senior AI-Native Engineer, you will design and build features that serve our Aging in Place member segment and help evolve our AI-Native engineering workflows. You will take full ownership of what you build from the first line of code through production, on-call, and member impact.

Our full-stack environment spans Spring Boot microservices, Java, Kafka, and Kafka Streams on the backend, a modern cloud-native platform on AWS, and native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) apps on the client side.

What You’ll Do

• Ship end-to-end features across the stack—from backend services and APIs to iOS and Android surfaces.
• Work with AI tools (such as Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator to orchestrate agents, create specs, generate code, and conduct reviews.
• Help define and codify AI-Native engineering playbooks and practices for the Verticals team.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to solve complex user problems with scalable engineering solutions.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and technical standards.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
• Mentor team members and support performance, reliability, and accessibility across your features.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience building and operating high-quality, consumer-scale services.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience prompting, evaluating, and building with LLMs.
• Full-stack proficiency spanning backend services and mobile client development (iOS and/or Android).
• Experience with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context window management, and MCP/function calling.
• Track record of using AI tooling to multiply personal engineering output.
• Strong sense of end-to-end ownership through to production execution.
• Excellent communication skills and strong empathy for end-users.
• Bachelor's Degree in a Technical field, or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with IoT, telematics, or hardware-adjacent systems.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Kinesis, or high-throughput streaming platforms.
• Background with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, DataDog).

Benefits & Perks

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for US employees (supplemental plans in Canada).
• 401(k) matching program (US) / RRSP with DPSP (Canada).
• Equity compensation in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• Flexible PTO, companywide holidays, and summer/winter shutdowns.
• Paid parental leave.
• Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program.
• Equipment, tools, and remote home office support.
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers.