Staff Android Engineer

The Revenue Org at Life360 focuses on three important pillars of our product’s success: revenue growth opportunities, our new ads business, and globalization of Life360. We leverage rapid experimentation and cuttingedge technologies to continually increase Life360’s value proposition to our members.

Our teams own critical memberfacing features such as authentication, onboarding, SOS, crash detection, and roadside assistance features, the latter of which help protect millions of families every day.

Our teams are motivated by impact, thrive when empowered with high agency, are always curious, and build with engineering excellence as a first principle.

About the Job

Life360s ambitious goals are to hit $1 billion in revenue and 150 monthly active users by 2028. To achieve these goals, we are laserfocused on our hypothesisdriven experimentation approach to feature development. We build mobile experiences by testing first, iterating, then rolling out incrementally, all while measuring impact along the way.

This role combines deep product engineering leadership with an experimentation and globalfirst mindset. You’ll design and build foundational inapp experiences that deepen engagement and expand Life360s utility and safety aspects for every member.

In addition, you’ll help expand Life360’s global footprint by ensuring internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) are built into our product from day one. You’ll also lead development of marketspecific features to help tailor our productmarketfit for European, Asian, and Latin American regions.

Your technical leadership will directly shape how families interact with the app worldwide and help Life360 grow to be the #1 brand that improves everyday family life.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $149,500 to $245,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is $195,500 to $230,000 CAD. We take into consideration an individuals background and experience in determining final salary therefore, base pay offered may vary considerably depending on geographic location, jobrelated 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

• Technical leadership over the development of core application experiences that increase the utility and emotional resonance of Life360 for millions of members
• Collaborate with Design and Product to evolve how members move through and experience the app, from onboarding to daily use, ensuring fast, intuitive, and delightful interaction patterns
• Design and develop reusable, highperformance components and tools that unlock faster experimentation, iteration, and crossteam collaboration
• Champion engineering excellence, app performance, quality, and reliability, particularly in the context of complex, global, location and safetyfocused mobile applications
• Mentor and lead engineers across the team to elevate code quality, architectural decisionmaking, and execution velocity

• What We’re Looking For

  • 8+ years of experience building consumerfacing Android applications at scale, ideally for highMAU products
  • Deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development (Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Architecture Components
  • Track record of building and leading complex UI systems with a focus on performance, modularity, scalability, and accessibility
  • Handson implementation using feature flagging, experimentation and launch control platforms for safely scaling feature changes
  • Strong understanding of app architecture, lifecycle management, dependency injection, and navigation paradigms
  • Test automation experience using frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso

  • Bonus

    • Experience supporting growth experimentation initiatives
    • Experience with internationalization and localization best practices and tooling
    • Background in locationaware or contextual apps
    • Experience with Google billing and subscription system
    • AIpowered developer productivity tools experience (beyond ChatGPT)

    • Our Benefits

      • Competitive pay and benefits
      • Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
      • 401(k) plan with company matching program
      • Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well being
      • Flexible PTO, 13 company wide days off throughout the year
      • Winter and Summer Weeklong 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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