Senior Backend Engineer - AI‑Driven Ads & RTB

Life360; United States; Remote; USD 119,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company matching

Paid parental leave

Remote‑first culture

Life360 Platinum Membership

Tile trackers

Job summary

Life360 is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for our Ads team. You will own end‑to‑end development of ad server and real‑time bidding features, shaping our AI‑native advertising capabilities and platform reliability.

You will collaborate with engineers and product partners to deploy scalable, low‑latency services, mentor peers, and drive innovations that impact billions of daily events across our remote‑first workforce.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of backend engineering experience with Java and multi‑threaded systems.
• Experience building high‑throughput, low‑latency distributed systems in production.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments, ideally AWS.
• Knowledge of AdTech concepts (RTB, auctions, integrations).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-throughput backend services on the AdServer and Exchange platform.
• Implement and improve Real-Time Bidding and auction logic, and support integrations with demand and supply partners.
• Collaborate with Staff Engineers and architects to execute on platform design decisions.
• Own features end-to-end—from design through deployment—focusing on correctness and observability.
• Partner with Product on new ad formats and monetization capabilities.
• Contribute to monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Use AI tooling to accelerate code review and development.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team standards.

Skills

Java

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud: AWS

AI tooling

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

AWS

Job description

Life360 is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for our Ads team. You will own end‑to‑end development of ad server and real‑time bidding features, shaping our AI‑native advertising capabilities and platform reliability.

You will collaborate with engineers and product partners to deploy scalable, low‑latency services, mentor peers, and drive innovations that impact billions of daily events across our remote‑first workforce.