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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.

The App Experiences team at Life360 is leading the transformation of our core mobile application into a more dynamic, intuitive, and emotionally engaging product for families. We own the foundational in-app surfaces, such as navigation, home experiences, engagement loops, and contextual UI, that shape how members interact with Life360 every day.

Our mission is to increase the depth and utility of the app, helping members discover value faster and return more frequently. We are driving the overhaul of our information architecture and defining a new north star user experience, with a focus on clarity, speed, and delight. Working closely with design, product, and platform teams, we’re building the systems and experiences that turn Life360 into the everyday operating system for modern families.

We are product-minded engineers who think in platforms and obsess over building elegant, scalable, and performant UX patterns that serve tens of millions of members across people, pets, and things.

Life360 is embarking on a major redesign of our mobile application and expansion of our app into new features and align with our physical product and marketing strategy. We are rebuilding our core app experiences and re-architecting our information architecture to deliver a product that’s faster, more useful, and emotionally resonant for tens of millions of families worldwide. As a Staff Android Engineer on the Experiences team, you will be at the heart of this transformation, collaborating directly with the design team as they shape this future experience.

This role combines deep product engineering with a platform mindset. You’ll design and build foundational in-app experiences that deepen engagement and expand the utility of Life360 for every member. Focusing on areas such as navigation, home surfaces, contextual UI, and personalized content entry points. Your work will directly shape how families interact with the app daily and help define the blueprint for a new era of experience at Life360.

This role is instrumental in delivering Life360’s north star: to be the #1 brand that makes everyday family life better through a more connected, insightful, and delightful product experience.

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.

• Build core application experiences that increase the utility and emotional resonance of Life360 for millions of members.
• Lead development of a modern, scalable UX architecture, aligned with a reimagined information architecture and supporting server-driven, personalized content delivery.
• 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.
• Develop reusable, high-performance components and tools that unlock faster experimentation, iteration, and cross-team collaboration.
• Champion engineering excellence, app performance, and reliability, particularly in the context of complex, location-driven mobile applications.
• Mentor and lead engineers across the team to elevate code quality, architectural decision-making, and execution velocity.

• 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.
• Experience with server-driven UI frameworks, remote config, and dynamic content rendering.
• Strong understanding of app architecture, lifecycle management, dependency injection, and navigation paradigms.
• Passion for design systems, intuitive design, seamless animations, and building products that delight users at scale.

• Experience supporting app redesigns or architecture migrations.
• Experience creating UI flexible systems that scale to hundreds of engineers.
• Exposure to shaders and other low-level rendering development.
• Background in location-aware or contextual apps.

• 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

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.

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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