Senior Software Engineer AI-Native, Backend Foundry

Life360 is a remote-first company that develops a family-focused location sharing app and devices, serving approximately 91.6 million monthly active users across more than 180 countries. They are building an AI-native, developer-focused platform to extend their ecosystem and improve their infrastructure.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $129,000 to $192,000 USD (US), 149,500 to 177,500 CAD (Canada)

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality features integrating third party data and systems.
• Work with AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator — orchestrating agents to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and perform reviews.
• Help define and codify AI-Native engineering practices for the Foundry 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.

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.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits.
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (US and Canada).
• 401(k) plan with company matching (US) / RRSP with DPSP matching (Canada).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being.
• Flexible PTO, plus several company-wide days off throughout the year.
• Winter and Summer week-long 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.