Senior Software Engineer, Verticals (AI Native)

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 a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 107.7 million monthly active users (MAU), as of September 30, 2026, 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 who are basically 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. 

We are AI Native

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. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.

Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About The Team

This role sits on the Verticals team within Life360 - the group building the next frontier of meaningful connection beyond the core family circle. This role's initial focus is Aging in Place: helping aging parents stay safely independent while giving the families around them real peace of mind. Over time, this role may flex to support other emerging verticals - Things (Tile, connected trackers) or Pets - as priorities shift, so we're looking for someone who wants to help define the pattern for new member segments, not just ship one feature set.

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.

About the Job

Life360 is hiring an AI Native Senior Software Engineer - a senior engineer who doesn't just use AI tools, but thinks natively in them. You'll be central to how the Verticals team builds products.

You'll design and build features that serve one of our most important and fastest-growing member segments: aging parents who want to stay safely connected with, and independent from, the families who care about them. As priorities change, you may also apply these same patterns to Things (connected trackers) or Pets.

You will take full ownership of what you build from the first line of code through production, on-call, and the member impact it has. You obsess over the humans on the other end of the product, not just the ticket.

Full-stack experience is required for this role - you should be comfortable moving between backend services and the mobile surfaces that expose them. Our stack spans Spring Boot microservices, Java, Kafka, and Kafka Streams on the backend, a modern cloud-native platform on AWS, and native iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) apps on the client side.

In your first year, success looks like having shipped end-to-end features serving the Aging in Place member segment and establishing at least one AI-native workflow the broader team adopts.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $103,500 to $192,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is 149,500 to 177,500 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, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience in determining final salary. Base pay may also vary based on geographic location, with US work locations falling into one of three geographic tiers.

Total compensation is inclusive of equity compensation in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), as well as a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits. 

What You’ll Do

• Ship end-to-end across the stack - from backend services and APIs through to the iOS and Android surfaces members use, serving tens of millions of users - moving between layers as the feature demands.
• Work with AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator - orchestrate agents to create specs, generate code, and perform reviews, moving faster without sacrificing quality.
• Define and codify AI-Native engineering practices for the Verticals team, establishing playbooks the broader org can adopt.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers to turn complex user problems into 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.
• Mentor team members and contribute to team processes and technical standards.
• Support performance, reliability, and accessibility across the features you own.
• Adapt patterns and services built for Aging in Place to future verticals (Things, Pets) as team scope expands.

What We’re Looking For

• 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), with the versatility to work across the whole stack as needed.
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context window management, and MCP/function calling.
• A track record of using AI tooling to multiply your own output - not just as autocomplete, but as a development partner.
• A strong sense of ownership - you don't wait to be told what to fix, and you follow through past "it works on my machine" to "it works for the member, in production, at scale."
• Strong communication and collaboration skills - you work well with product, design, and platform engineers.
• Excitement for defining what it means to be AI-Native - you're not waiting for the playbook, you want to write it.
• Empathy for the humans behind the product - an aging parent trying to stay independent, or a family member trying to help from afar.
• Bachelor's Degree in a Technical field, or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with IoT, telematics, or embedded/hardware-adjacent systems.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Kinesis, or other high-throughput streaming platforms.
• Background with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, DataDog).

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 but as a development partner.
• 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

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer life and disability as well as 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.
• Paid parental leave.
• Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being.
• Generous time off: flexible PTO, companywide holidays throughout the year plus summer and winter shutdowns.
• Learning & Development programs.
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers.

AI Usage: We use AI to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Life360 hiring teams

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 Belonging

Life360 is an equal opportunity employer. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected status. We believe diverse perspectives make us better, and we’re building a workplace that reflects the communities we serve. Don’t meet every qualification? Apply anyway.

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