Senior Software Engineer II AI-Native, backend Growth

Role Description

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.

• Design and build features and systems to help grow Life360’s payments infrastructure, product integrations, alerting and monitoring.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.
• Learning & Development programs.
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.