Staff Android Engineer, AI Native (Experiences)

About Life360

Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app,Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 95.8 million monthly active users (MAU), as of December 31, 2025, across more than 180 countries.

Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends who are basically family).

Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com.

Life360 is a Remote-First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US) regardless of any specified location above. 

We are AI Native

We are building an AI native company where AI is an integral part of how we build and operate. AI tool usage during interviews varies by role. You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance. Your Recruiter will provide clear guidance as you move through the interview process.

Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy.

About The Team

The Experiences Department is responsible for the core member experience that defines how families use Life360 every day. Our teams build the surfaces and systems that answer essential questions like: How is my family right now? How do we stay coordinated and connected? Where has my family been? We create the foundations and interactions that support real-time awareness, history, communication, insights, and everyday family coordination.

Our 2026 focus is to deliver a fast, cohesive, and emotionally resonant free user experience that reflects the company’s long-term Magic of Location vision. We partner closely with Design, Product, and engineering teams across Location Platform, Intelligence, and Cloud to bring this vision to life at scale.

This role reports directly to the Senior Director of Engineering for Experiences and operates horizontally across all teams within Experiences. You will help unify across the department and ensure we build toward a consistent, high-quality vision.

About the Job

This role sits horizontally across Experiences, not inside one team. The job is making sure what we build across Maps, Realtime, Feed, Notifications, and History actually fits together into something coherent. Right now that's not always the case and it's costing us.

The core product journeys are the focus: where is my family, how do we stay connected, where have we been. These are what 91M monthly users interact with every time they open the app. The technical and experiential decisions made here have real reach.

We need someone who operates as an owner. That means shaping what gets built, not waiting for a spec. Influencing product and design direction, writing the technical framing for how we sequence work, seeing how the pieces add up (or don't). There's a real gap today between individual features shipping and a coherent experience coming out the other side. Closing that is a big part of this job.

Working in an AI-native way is a real expectation here, not a nice-to-have. We're building toward a model where AI owns the development loop and engineers direct and are accountable for what ships. We expect this person to already work that way — directing agents through the full development cycle, writing clear problem statements AI can run against, holding the quality bar on output. If you're using AI to go faster at the same tasks you'd do anyway, that's not the shift we're making.

The role is hands-on. Deep reviews, prototyping, unblocking things stuck in the middle. The leverage isn't in your direct output though — it's in how much the teams around you move because you're involved.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $167,000 to $280,500 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is $194,000 to $260,000 CAD. Note: Please be aware that the job title for positions in Canada will be "Developer" in lieu of "Engineer." We take into consideration an individual's background and experience in determining final salary - therefore, base pay offered may vary considerably depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.

What You’ll Do

• Help drive and define Android experiences across Maps, Realtime, Feed, Notifications, History, and coordination features.
• Work closely with technical leads across individual teams to align on patterns, architectural guardrails, and execution plans.
• Provide direction that helps teams sequence work effectively and build toward a cohesive, long-term experience.
• Unblock complex technical challenges, deliver prototypes, perform deep reviews, and raise the bar for engineering quality across the department.
• Write production code while focusing on high-leverage activities that accelerate teams and improve architectural consistency.
• Direct AI agents through the development loop, from problem framing through code, review, and ship. Own what comes out.
• Build with instrumentation and quality gates from the start, not after. Every feature needs a signal on whether it's actually working.
• Push AI-native practices across the Experiences team (agentic workflows, automated tracking, LLM-assisted validation). This is part of what a Staff engineer does here now.
• Collaborate closely with Design to deliver polished, intuitive, and emotionally expressive interactions.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience building consumer-facing Android applications at scale, ideally in high-engagement, high-MAU products.
• Deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development practices such as Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and Architecture Components.
• Strong architectural skills and the ability to define patterns and guide technical direction across multiple teams.
• Experience leading complex, multi-team initiatives and delivering cohesive end-to-end user experiences.
• Ability to influence product direction through technical insight, clear framing, and thoughtful evaluation of tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated strength as a hands-on technical multiplier through mentorship, deep reviews, prototyping, and unblocker-level problem solving.
• Active use and development of AI coding agents in your day-to-day work, with real examples of AI-directed output you owned and shipped.
  You think in problems, not tasks. There should be examples where you shaped what got built, not just how.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Our 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.

Life360 Values

Our company’s mission-driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference 

• Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust. 
• Be Direct With Respect - We communicate directly, even when it’s hard.
• Members Before Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families. 
• High Intensity, High Impact - We do whatever it takes to get the job done. 

Our Commitment to Diversity

We believe that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic best selves to work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Life360. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any legally protected status.  

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the below qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!

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