Senior Software Engineer II, AI Native, Experimentation, ML

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Design and develop high-quality APIs and services for our experimentation platform as well as recommendation and personalization systems—creating experiences that are reliable, efficient, and genuinely beneficial to product teams and users.

• Collaborate with AI (Claude Code) as a primary partner—your main workflow consists of orchestrating agents to formulate specifications, generate code and tests, verify results, and conduct reviews.

• Assist in defining and formalizing AI-Native engineering practices for the team, creating playbooks that can be adopted by the wider organization.

• Build across the backend stack as required—delivering polished, efficient, and dependable experiences to tens of millions of users.

• Work closely with product managers and data teams to transform complex user challenges into elegant, scalable engineering solutions.

• Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and foster a culture of craftsmanship and continuous improvement.

• Engage in on-call rotation and incident response.

• Utilize agentic workflows to significantly enhance the delivery of strong outcomes—accelerating progress without compromising quality.

• Mentor team members and contribute to team processes, technical standards, and help evolve the team's AI-native engineering practices.

• Ensure performance, reliability, and accessibility across the features you manage.

⛳️ Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in backend software engineering.

• Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot (our primary tech stack).

• Experience with Apache Kafka or similar distributed streaming technologies.

• Solid grasp of distributed systems concepts: consistency, fault tolerance, replication, and data durability.

• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and containerized deployments.

• Extensive use of agentic workflows, with an understanding of the research-plan-implement cycle, but capable of independent thinking.

• At least 1 year of hands-on experience in prompting, evaluating, and building with LLMs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans (100% covered for US employees). Supplemental medical and dental plans are available for Canadian employees.

• 401(k) plan with company matching in the US and RRSP with DPSP for Canadian employees.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) focused on mental wellness.

• Flexible PTO and 12 company-wide days off annually.

• Winter and Summer Weeklong Synchronized Company Shutdowns.

• Learning & Development programs available.

• Provision of equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for an efficient remote work environment.

• Complimentary Life360 Platinum Membership for your chosen circle.

• Free Tile Products.