Staff Software Engineer – AI-Native

📋 Description

• Design and develop high-quality APIs and services for the global adaptation of Life360 — services that are essential for safety and genuinely beneficial.

• Collaborate with AI (Claude Code) as a key partner — your main workflow involves coordinating agents to create specifications, generate code and tests, verify outcomes, and conduct reviews.

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

• Work across the complete stack as necessary — delivering polished, high-performing, and dependable experiences to millions of users.

• Work closely with product managers and designers to transform intricate user challenges into elegant, scalable engineering solutions.

• Contribute to architectural choices, code reviews, and foster a culture of craftsmanship and ongoing improvement.

• Engage in on-call rotations and incident management.

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

• Maintain a high standard for quality from start to finish: you define what "done" means, instrument your work for observability, and consider post-launch performance as part of your responsibilities — not someone else’s issue.

• Mentor fellow team members and contribute to team processes, technical standards, and assist in the evolution of the team’s AI-native engineering practices.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in building and managing high-quality, consumer-scale services.

• More than 1 year of hands-on experience in prompting, evaluating, and developing with LLMs.

• Strong expertise in cloud development using modern Java, Kubernetes, AWS, and streaming technologies.

• Extensive experience with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context window management, and MCP/function calling.

• A proven history of leveraging AI tools to amplify your own output — not just as an autocomplete aid, but as a true development collaborator.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities — you work effectively with product, design, and platform engineers.

• A genuine enthusiasm for defining what it means to be AI-Native — you’re not just waiting for the guidelines, you want to create them.

• Empathy for our international members - including those using lower-end mobile devices and facing inconsistent network connectivity. Building highly localized experiences is vital to delivering the value of Life360 in global markets.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical field, or equivalent experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits.

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

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

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support mental wellness.

• Flexible paid time off and 12 company-wide holidays throughout the year.

• Learning and Development opportunities.

• Provision of equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote work environment.

• Complimentary Life360 Platinum Membership for your chosen circle.