Senior Software Engineer, Verticals (AI Native) - 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 107.7 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 180 countries.

Life360 is a Remote First company, meaning a remote work environment is the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely within the US and Canada.

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; your recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the process.

About The Team

This role sits on the Verticals team within Life360 — the group building 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 peace of mind. Over time, scope may flex to support other emerging verticals like Things (Tile, connected trackers) or Pets.

We are a product-minded, AI-Native engineering team. AI isn't just a tool we use — it's integrated across ideation, coding, testing, review, and iteration.

About the Job

Life360 is hiring an AI Native Senior Software Engineer to take full ownership of features end-to-end, from initial architectural design through production, on-call support, and member impact.

Full-stack experience is required for this role — moving comfortably between backend microservices and mobile surfaces. Our stack spans Spring Boot, Java, Kafka, and Kafka Streams on AWS, alongside native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) applications.

Compensation

• US Salary Range: $103,500 – $192,000 USD
• Canada Salary Range: 149,500 – 177,500 CAD (Job title in Canada: "Developer")
• Total compensation includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and a comprehensive benefits package.

Key Responsibilities

• Ship end-to-end across the stack — from backend services and APIs to iOS and Android surfaces serving tens of millions of members.
• Work with AI tools (e.g., Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator to orchestrate agents for specs, code generation, and PR reviews.
• Define and codify AI-Native engineering playbooks and practices for the Verticals team and broader organization.
• Partner with product managers and designers to translate complex user problems into scalable technical solutions.
• Participate in architectural decisions, code reviews, and on-call incident response rotation.
• Mentor team members and support performance, reliability, and accessibility across owned features.

Qualifications

• 4+ 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 (Java, Spring Boot, Kafka) and mobile client development (Swift for iOS and/or Kotlin for Android).
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context window management, and MCP/function calling.
• Demonstrated track record of leveraging AI tooling to multiply engineering output.
• Strong ownership mindset and product empathy for consumer user experiences.
• Bachelor's Degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with IoT, telematics, or embedded systems.
• Familiarity with streaming platforms like Kafka or Kinesis.
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, DataDog).

Employee Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans (100% employer-paid in the US; supplemental plans in Canada).
• 401(k) matching (US) / RRSP with DPSP plan (Canada).
• Paid parental leave.
• Flexible PTO, company holidays, plus summer and winter shutdowns.
• Mental Wellness & Employee Assistance Programs.
• Learning & Development budgets.
• Equipment, home office setup, and remote work reimbursement support.
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers.