Staff Software Engineer AI-Native

Role Description

Life360 is hiring an AI-Native Engineer — a Staff engineer who doesn’t just use AI tools, but thinks natively in them. You’ll be central to how the International team builds products, where AI has reshaped how the entire team designs, builds, and ships.

• Design and build services that serve some of our most important and fastest-growing member segments: our international members in markets like Brazil, UK, the Philippines and beyond.
• 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.
• Evolve the standard others follow.
• Back-end experience is required. Our back-end stack includes Spring Boot microservices, Java, Kafka, Kafka Streams, and a modern cloud-native platform on AWS.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating high-quality, consumer-scale services.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience prompting, evaluating, and building with LLMs.
• Strong proficiency in cloud development using modern Java, Kubernetes, AWS and streaming technologies.
• Deep 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 genuine development partner.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills — you work well with product, design, and platform engineers.
• A genuine excitement for defining what it means to be AI-Native — you’re not waiting for the playbook, you want to write it.
• Empathy for our international members - including those with lower end mobile devices and inconsistent network connectivity.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical field, or equivalent experience.

Requirements

• Daily use of AI coding assistants (we support Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot) for real, substantive tasks: analysis, coding, refactoring, testing, navigating codebases, and documentation.
• Accountability for everything you ship — AI-generated code gets the same review you'd give any PR.
• Operate with meaningful leverage — doing more with the same time, taking on problems that would otherwise require a larger team.
• Share what works and automate prompting strategies that others can build on.
• Stay current with tooling changes and bring recommendations to the team.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits.
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US 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.