Senior Software Engineer II, AI Native, Mobile

Role Description

Life360 is hiring an AI-Native Senior Software Engineer II, Mobile — a senior engineer who doesn't just use AI tools, but thinks natively in them. You'll be central to how the Experimentation & ML Intelligence team designs and ships growth experiments across the Life360 app, and how we use AI for development going forward.

• Design and build high-quality Android growth features and experiments — across onboarding, activation, feature awareness, subscription conversion, and retention — running dozens of concurrent tests across the Life360 app.
• Partner with product, design, data science, and analytics to translate hypotheses into shippable experiments, and turn results into the next decision.
• Work with AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator — your primary workflow involves orchestrating agents to create specs, generate Kotlin code and tests, verify results, and perform reviews.
• Instrument experiments accurately — exposure logging and analytics — so the results downstream teams rely on are trustworthy.
• Ship polished, performant, and reliable Android experiences to tens of millions of users — with strong attention to startup time, memory, battery, ANR, and crash-free rates.
• Help define and codify AI-Native Android engineering practices for the team, establishing playbooks the broader mobile org can adopt.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and a culture of craft and continuous improvement on the Android codebase.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for mobile experiments and releases.
• 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 Android features you own.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of Android software engineering experience shipping production apps at consumer scale.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience prompting, evaluating, and building with LLMs.
• Strong proficiency with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose (and the Android View system); deep familiarity with the modern Android toolchain (Android Studio, Kotlin Coroutines, Flow).
• Experience with Android architecture patterns (MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, Jetpack/ViewModel/Navigation, Hilt or Dagger) in a large, multi-team codebase.
• Comfort with mobile experimentation concepts: feature flagging, A/B testing, exposure logging, holdouts, and guardrail metrics.
• Solid grounding in mobile performance, memory, battery, ANR, and crash diagnostics (Android Studio Profiler, Perfetto/Systrace, Macrobenchmark, Crashlytics or equivalent).
• Experience with CI/CD for Android (Gradle, Fastlane, GitHub Actions, Bitrise, or similar) and modular build systems (Gradle modules, Maven).
• Deep experience with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context-window management, and MCP/function calling.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience.

Requirements

• 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.
• Thoughtful communication - You can explain technical tradeoffs and articulate ideas effectively.

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.
• Winter and Summer Weeklong 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.