Senior Software Engineer – AI-Native, Backend

Life360

. Design and build high-quality features integrating third party data and systems.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $129,000 - $192,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build high-quality features integrating third party data and systems.
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 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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpring BootApache Kafkadistributed systemscloud infrastructurecontainerized deploymentsAI-Native engineering practicescode reviewsperformance optimizationaccessibility

Soft Skills

collaborationmentorshipproblem-solvingcommunicationcontinuous improvementorganizational skillsleadershipadaptabilitycritical thinkingteam processes