Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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 66 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 150 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.

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

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 the business.

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 designing and developing Cloud code in Java.

The Canada-based salary range for this position is $145,000 CAD to $210,000 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
• Create new API gateways to enable external integration (eg.Tile and JioBit)
• 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 …