Senior AI-Native Backend Engineer (Ads/RTB) – Remote

Life360 Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Mental health program

Generous PTO

Remote equipment reimbursement

Life360 Platinum membership

Tile trackers

Job summary

Life360 Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for AI-native backend work on the Ads platform. This role focuses on end-to-end development of high-throughput services, RTB logic, and AI-enabled improvements to targeting and monetization.

Remote-first environment across the US and Canada with competitive compensation and a broad benefits package. You will collaborate with architecture, product and senior engineers to scale the AdServer/Exchange platform and leverage AI tooling to accelerate

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of backend engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Java and multi-threaded design.
• Experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-throughput backend services for AdServer/RTB.
• Implement/improve Real-Time Bidding and partner integrations.
• Own features end-to-end from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Backend engineering

Java

Distributed systems

Cloud/AWS

AdTech/RTB

Effective communication

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

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Job description

Life360 Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for AI-native backend work on the Ads platform. This role focuses on end-to-end development of high-throughput services, RTB logic, and AI-enabled improvements to targeting and monetization.

Remote-first environment across the US and Canada with competitive compensation and a broad benefits package. You will collaborate with architecture, product and senior engineers to scale the AdServer/Exchange platform and leverage AI tooling to accelerate