Senior Software Engineer II AI-Native, backend Growth

Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends that basically are family).

Life360 is a Remote First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US and Canada) regardless of any specified location above.

The Growth team at Life360 is responsible for building the next frontier of meaningful connection for our Subscribers and paying customers — our mission is to deepen Life360’s peace-of-mind platform beyond the existing product offerings of crash detection, safety incidents, roadside support, and more. Our mission is to unlock more value for these members and the families around them, with features that help people stay safe, connected, and sane amidst the chaos of everyday family life.

We are also responsible for the payment infrastructure and monetization strategy.

We are a product-minded, AI-Native engineering team. That means AI isn’t just a tool we use — it’s how we work. We’ve redesigned our team workflows around AI, treating it as a first-class collaborator at every stage: ideation, coding, testing, review, and iteration.

We ship faster and go deeper because of it, and we’re looking for someone who wants to help define what that looks like at scale.

Life360 is hiring an AI-Native Backend Focused Engineer — a senior engineer who doesn’t just use AI tools, but thinks natively in them. You’ll be central to how the Growth team builds its products, develops its services, and how we use AI for development in the future.

You’ll design and build features and systems to help grow Life360’s payments infrastructure, product integrations, alerting and monitoring, everything.

You’ll build and evolve our modern AI-Native engineering workflows — from how we write code, to how we run standups, to how we think about team velocity. You’ll evolve the standard others follow.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $148,000 to $216,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is 171,500 to 201,000 CAD.

Note: Please be aware that the job title for positions in Canada will be "Developer" in lieu of "Engineer." We take into consideration an individual's background and experience in determining final salary- therefore, base pay offered may vary considerably depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.

We use AI coding tools as a professional standard on this team. Here's what that means in practice:

• Daily use: You use AI coding assistants (we support Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot) for real, substantive tasks: analysis, coding, refactoring, testing, navigating codebases, and documentation. Not just research or autocomplete.

• Judgment and ownership: AI-generated code gets the same review you'd give any PR. You are accountable for everything you ship.

• Velocity: We expect senior engineers who use AI well to operate with meaningful leverage — doing more with the same time, taking on problems that would otherwise require a larger team.

• Team leadership: You share what works. You automate prompting strategies that others can build on and help teammates earlier in their AI workflow adoption get up to speed.

• Continuous learning: The tooling is changing fast. You stay current and bring recommendations to the team when something would meaningfully improve how we work.

• Design and build high-quality API and services for our subscribers and payment infrastructure— experiences that are safe, intuitive, and genuinely useful.

• Work with AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator — your primary workflow involves orchestrating agents to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and perform reviews.

• Help define and codify AI-Native engineering practices for the Growth team, establishing playbooks the broader org can adopt.

• Build across the full stack as needed — shipping polished, performant, and reliable experiences to tens of millions of users.

• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to turn complex user problems into elegant, scalable engineering solutions.

• Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and a culture of craft and continuous improvement.

• Use agentic workflows to dramatically increase the delivery of strong outcomes — moving faster without sacrificing quality.

• Mentor team members and contribute to team processes, technical standards, and help evolve the team's AI-native engineering practices.

• Support performance, reliability, and accessibility across the features you own.

• Strong proficiency with Java and Spring Boot (this is our primary stack)

• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar distributed streaming platforms

• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: consistency, fault tolerance, replication, and data durability

• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and containerized deployments

• Heavy user of agentic workflows, understands research-plan-implement cycle but doesn’t outsource thinking to agents

• Growth mindset - You structure problems precisely, you learn quickly, you can show interest outside “your lane”, and you are always happy to try something new

• Collaborative approach - You communicate clearly, work well across teams, and value diverse perspectives

• Ownership mentality - You take responsibility for your work from design through production and beyond

• AI-native working style - You use AI tooling (Claude Code or equivalent) as a genuine development partner: delegating discrete tasks, reviewing outputs critically, and running parallel workstreams rather than hand-holding one agent at a time

• Thoughtful communication - You can explain technical tradeoffs and articulate ideas effectively

• We believe culture fit and problem-solving ability matter more than checking every technical box. We're happy to help you grow into areas where you have less experience.

• Background in stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Flink)

• Experience with schema registries and schema evolution strategies

• Understanding of CI/CD patterns, GitHub Actions, and artifact management (Maven, Nexus)

• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog)

Our company’s mission-driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference.

• Be a Good Person — We have a team of high-integrity people you can trust.

• Be Direct With Respect — We communicate directly, even when it’s hard.

• Members Before Metrics — We focus on building an exceptional experience for families.

• High Intensity, High Impact — We do whatever it takes to get the job done.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful.

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!