[Remote] Senior Software Engineer II AI-Native, backend Growth
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Life360 is a company dedicated to keeping people close to their loved ones through innovative mobile applications and services. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II who will play a crucial role in developing AI-Native backend systems to enhance the company's payment infrastructure and product integrations, while collaborating closely with product managers and designers.
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-quality API and services for our subscribers and payment infrastructure— experiences that are safe, intuitive, and genuinely useful
- Work with AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator — your primary workflow involves orchestrating agents to create specs, generate code and tests, verify results, and perform reviews
- Help define and codify AI-Native engineering practices for the Growth 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
Skills
- 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
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 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: delegating discrete tasks, reviewing outputs critically, and running parallel workstreams rather than hand-holding one agent at a time
- Thoughtful communication - You can explain technical tradeoffs and articulate ideas effectively
- Background in stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Flink)
- Experience with schema registries and schema evolution strategies
- Knowledge of Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud
- Understanding of CI/CD patterns, GitHub Actions, and artifact management (Maven, Nexus)
- Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog)
- Previous work on ecosystems or integration tooling
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits.
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer 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.
- 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.
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