Staff Android Engineer

Life360; Canada; On-site; CAD 195,500 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance

401(k) plan with matching

Flexible PTO

Synchronized company shutdowns

Learning & Development programs

Job summary

A leading family safety service is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to lead the development of core app experiences. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in Android applications and a deep expertise in Kotlin. This remote-first company values innovation and collaboration to enhance user engagement. Competitive salary range for candidates in Canada is $195,500 to $230,000 CAD, along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Android application development.
• Strong understanding of app architecture and dependency injection.
• Experience with localization and internationalization best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of core application experiences.
• Collaborate with design and product teams.
• Mentor and lead engineers to enhance code quality.

Skills

Deep expertise in Kotlin

Building consumer-facing Android applications

Complex UI systems development

Test automation frameworks

Feature flagging and experimentation

Tools

Jetpack Compose

Coroutines

JUnit

Mockito

Espresso

Job description

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 the US) regardless of any specified location above.

About The Team

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 cutting-edge technologies to continually increase Life360’s value proposition to our members.

Our teams own critical member-facing 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

Life360's ambitious goals are to hit $1 billion in revenue and 150 monthly active users by 2028. To achieve these goals, we are laser-focused on our hypothesis-driven 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 global-first mindset. You’ll design and build foundational in-app experiences that deepen engagement and expand Life360's 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 market-specific features to help tailor our product-market-fit 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 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

• 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, high-performance components and tools that unlock faster experimentation, iteration, and cross-team collaboration
• Champion engineering excellence, app performance, quality, and reliability, particularly in the context of complex, global, location and safety-focused mobile applications
• Mentor and lead engineers across the team to elevate code quality, architectural decision-making, and execution velocity

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience building consumer-facing Android applications at scale, ideally for high-MAU 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
• Hands-on 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 location-aware or contextual apps
• Experience with Google billing and subscription system
• AI-powered 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 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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