ABOUT LIFE360
Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our
category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices 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 88 million monthly active users
(MAU), as of June 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 that basically
are family).
Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more
information, please visit life360.com [http://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 Canada) regardless of any specified
location above
ABOUT THE JOB
We’re looking for an engineer who can thoughtfully integrate AI into their
day-to-day work—from streamlining, testing, debugging, and monitoring to
generating insights that inform architecture and product design—so our team can
work smarter, not harder.
Come join us as we build the next evolution of our backend services to handle
our ever growing user base. We will continue to break down our monolith in favor
of microservices that service our mobile clients today. You will be working
alongside our Architecture and Product teams to move fast as we expand Life360
globally.
Together, we will build systems that are strong and reliable to uphold a heavy
load, yet malleable to fit many product demands. Come lead coordinated efforts
alongside mobile and web engineers: design and develop Cloud code in Java and
PHP.
At Life360, our teams are motivated by impact, thrive when empowered with high
agency, are always curious, and build with engineering excellence as a first
principle.
The Canada-based salary range for this position is $169,500 to $199,500 CAD. 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
- Create new Spring Java micro services to break down our existing PHP monolith
or support new product features
- Scale or decompose our existing PHP monolith services and endpoints.
- Create new API gateways to enable external integrations
- Horizontally scale our system to handle another 10+ billion events per day
- Monitor health, suggest improvements for and deploy your own services
- Example: Build the next generation of our event streaming architecture to
handle billions of events per day storing up to trillions of events in cold
storage
- Example: Build a platform to support Machine Learning model processing to
power predictive features in Life360
- Leverage AI to build next generation test automation to validate our API
- Mentor other developers who are trying to grow
- Build technical specs with Staff engineers
- Handle on call rotation and address live incidents
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar quantitative field or the
equivalent industry experience
- 7+ years of prior professional experience working on backend and Cloud code
- Apply AI tools to accelerate development workflows, improve code quality, and
optimize system performance
- Leverage AI to build next generation test automation to validate our API
- Diligent in implementing and supporting services that last outwards to a
year
- Proficient in microservices and horizontally scalable architectures
- Adaptive to working on various aspects of our system for different teams
- Communicate effectively with cross-platform teammates
- Experience with high-scale, low-latency systems
- Understand how to deploy and maintain systems, ideally with kubernetes
- Bonus for experience working with Kafka Streams
- At Life360 we use certain technologies, experience with these technologies
will serve you well: AWS (EC2, EKS, DynamoDB, Kinesis), databases (MySql),
Languages (Java, PHP, Python)
OUR BENEFITS
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans
- RRSP plan with DPSP company matching program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well being
- Flexible PTO, 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
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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