Role Description
Life360 is hiring an AI-Native Senior Software Engineer II, Mobile — a senior engineer who doesn't just use AI tools, but thinks natively in them. You'll be central to how the Experimentation & ML Intelligence team designs and ships growth experiments across the Life360 app, and how we use AI for development going forward.
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Design and build high-quality Android growth features and experiments — across onboarding, activation, feature awareness, subscription conversion, and retention — running dozens of concurrent tests across the Life360 app.
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Partner with product, design, data science, and analytics to translate hypotheses into shippable experiments, and turn results into the next decision.
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Work with AI (Claude Code) as a first-class collaborator — your primary workflow involves orchestrating agents to create specs, generate Kotlin code and tests, verify results, and perform reviews.
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Instrument experiments accurately — exposure logging and analytics — so the results downstream teams rely on are trustworthy.
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Ship polished, performant, and reliable Android experiences to tens of millions of users — with strong attention to startup time, memory, battery, ANR, and crash-free rates.
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Help define and codify AI-Native Android engineering practices for the team, establishing playbooks the broader mobile org can adopt.
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Contribute to architectural decisions, code reviews, and a culture of craft and continuous improvement on the Android codebase.
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Participate in on-call rotation and incident response for mobile experiments and releases.
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Use agentic workflows to dramatically increase the delivery of strong outcomes — moving faster without sacrificing quality.
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Mentor team members and contribute to team processes, technical standards, and help evolve the team's AI-native engineering practices.
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Support performance, reliability, and accessibility across the Android features you own.
Qualifications
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6+ years of Android software engineering experience shipping production apps at consumer scale.
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At least 1 year of hands-on experience prompting, evaluating, and building with LLMs.
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Strong proficiency with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose (and the Android View system); deep familiarity with the modern Android toolchain (Android Studio, Kotlin Coroutines, Flow).
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Experience with Android architecture patterns (MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, Jetpack/ViewModel/Navigation, Hilt or Dagger) in a large, multi-team codebase.
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Comfort with mobile experimentation concepts: feature flagging, A/B testing, exposure logging, holdouts, and guardrail metrics.
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Solid grounding in mobile performance, memory, battery, ANR, and crash diagnostics (Android Studio Profiler, Perfetto/Systrace, Macrobenchmark, Crashlytics or equivalent).
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Experience with CI/CD for Android (Gradle, Fastlane, GitHub Actions, Bitrise, or similar) and modular build systems (Gradle modules, Maven).
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Deep experience with agentic workflows, prompt engineering, context-window management, and MCP/function calling.
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Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience.
Requirements
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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.
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Collaborative approach - You communicate clearly, work well across teams, and value diverse perspectives.
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Ownership mentality - You take responsibility for your work from design through production and beyond.
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AI-native working style - You use AI tooling (Claude Code or equivalent) as a genuine development partner.
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Thoughtful communication - You can explain technical tradeoffs and articulate ideas effectively.
Benefits
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Competitive pay and benefits.
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Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees).
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401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees.
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness.
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Flexible PTO and 12 company-wide days off throughout the year.
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Winter and Summer Weeklong Synchronized Company Shutdowns.
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Learning & Development programs.
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Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment.
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Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle.
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Free Tile Products.