Senior Software Engineer II AI-Native, backend Growth

1 month, 3 weeks ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Life360

Life360

Life360 is the top family location safety app, offering advanced safety features to connect and protect millions of families worldwide.

Family Services
251-1K
Founded 2008
$140M raised

Description

  • Design and build high-quality APIs and services for subscribers and payment infrastructure.
  • Develop features and systems that support growth, monetization, alerting, and monitoring.
  • Use AI coding tools as a core part of the development workflow to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and perform reviews.
  • Define and codify AI-native engineering practices and playbooks for the Growth team and broader organization.
  • Build across the full stack as needed to ship polished, performant, and reliable experiences.
  • Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate user problems into scalable engineering solutions.
  • Participate in architectural decisions, code reviews, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
  • Take part in on-call rotation and incident response.
  • Mentor team members and help evolve team processes and technical practices.
  • Support performance, reliability, and accessibility for owned features.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of backend software engineering experience.
  • Strong proficiency with Java and Spring Boot.
  • Experience with Apache Kafka or similar distributed streaming platforms.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts including consistency, fault tolerance, replication, and data durability.
  • Comfort with cloud infrastructure, with AWS preferred, and containerized deployments.
  • Heavy use of agentic workflows, with the ability to use AI tools without outsourcing thinking to agents.
  • Growth mindset and willingness to learn quickly and work outside your usual area.
  • Collaborative communication style and ability to work well across teams.
  • Ownership mentality from design through production and beyond.
  • Preferred: experience with stream processing frameworks such as Kafka Streams or Flink.
  • Preferred: experience with schema registries, schema evolution, Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud.
  • Preferred: familiarity with CI/CD patterns, GitHub Actions, artifact management tools such as Maven and Nexus, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or DataDog.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.
  • US medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans, with 100% employer-paid coverage for US employees.
  • Canadian supplemental medical and dental plans.
  • 401(k) with company matching in the US, or RRSP with DPSP for Canadian employees.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
  • Flexible PTO plus 12 company-wide days off each year.
  • Learning and development programs.
  • Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote setup.
  • Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.
  • Equity as part of the compensation package.

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