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Senior Software Engineer AI-Native, backend Foundry

Remote, USA; Remote, Canada

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2025, across more than 180 countries.

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 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com.

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.

About The Team

The Foundry team is building Life360’s partner ecosystem and developer platform - the infrastructure that allows external partners to integrate with Life360 securely and at scale. We own the full integration stack: partner-facing APIs, authentication flows, webhook receipt and delivery, and the gateway layer that decouples partner contracts from internal systems. Our goal is to turn Life360 from a single-product app into an extensible platform that partners across mobility, safety, wearables, and more can build on.

We also own critical shared infrastructure that the rest of the company depends on - NetworkKit, authentication, and environment standardization across all mobile clients. We’re a cross-platform team spanning Cloud, Android, and iOS, and we think in systems: stable API contracts, sandboxed environments, versioning policies, and operational SLAs. The developer platform we’re building is modeled on the best of Stripe, Twilio, and Squarespace - designed so that onboarding a new partner takes weeks, not months.

About the Job

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 Foundry team builds its products, develops its ecosystem tooling, and how we use AI for development in the future.

You’ll design and build features and systems to help grow Life360s partner ecosystem, helping take our platform from zero to one - building out auth, system proxying, 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.

The US-based salary range for this position is [PLACEHOLDER]. 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.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $129,000 to $192,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is 149,500 to 177,500 CAD. 

Note: 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.

What You’ll Do

  • Design and build high-quality features integrating third party data and systems.
  • 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 Foundry 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.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
  • 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.

What We’re Looking For

Technical foundation:

  • 6+ years of backend software engineering experience
  • 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

What matters most to us:

  • 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.

Nice-to-Have

  • Background in stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Flink)
  • Experience with schema registries and schema evolution strategies
  • Knowledge of Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud
  • Understanding of CI/CD patterns, GitHub Actions, and artifact management (Maven, Nexus)
  • Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog)
  • Previous work on ecosystems or integration tooling

AI-Native Expectations 

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.

Our Benefits

  • Competitive pay and benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (US and Canada)
  • 401(k) plan with company matching (US) / RRSP with DPSP matching (Canada)
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
  • Flexible PTO, plus several company-wide days off throughout the year
  • Winter and Summer week-long synchronized company shutdowns
  • Learning & Development programs
  • Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
  • Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle
  • Free Tile Products

Life360 Values

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.

Our Commitment to Diversity

We believe that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic best selves to work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Life360. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any legally protected status.

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!

 

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