Senior Software Engineer II AI-Native, backend Growth

Life360

2h • $148,000 - $216,000 • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits.
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
• 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
• Flexible PTO and 12 company wide days off throughout the year.
• Learning & Development programs.
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed