Senior iOS Engineer

Life360; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a talented iOS Engineer to join their Growth team, focusing on enhancing family connectivity through advanced mobile applications. This exciting role involves architecting and developing features that leverage location-based services to improve user experiences. You will collaborate with diverse teams, drive automation strategies, and mentor junior engineers, all while contributing to a mission-driven culture that values integrity and diversity. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a meaningful impact, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Medical Benefits

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Equity Options

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Swift and familiarity with iOS frameworks and APIs.
• Experience with A/B testing and experimentation platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Growth specific features for iOS.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance application performance.

Skills

Swift

iOS Frameworks

Problem-solving

Code Review

Software Architecture

A/B Testing

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

XCTest

XCUITest

Data Analytics Tools

Job description

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 various services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves more than 77 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 170 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 who are basically 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

This role is for an iOS engineer within the Life360 Growth team. This person will be an integral part of the core of our applications, as they will be required to become experts in subscriber growth and premium offerings. As a member of the team, you are expected to be highly involved in architecting, designing, and leading the development of the next generation of our systems and features.

The US based salary range for this position is $123,000 to 180,500.The Canada-based salary range for this position is 145,000 to 180,000 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

• Work with a cross-functional team and collaborate closely with design, back-end engineering, marketing, data science, and product.
• Design and maintain Growth specific features and experiments for iOS using tools such as XCTest, XCUITest, or other relevant frameworks.
• Create foundational automation workflows that lead to better product quality and reliability.
• Opportunity to be on the leading edge of Growth experiences in a high-visibility team.
• Roadmap innovative features to bring families closer together through contextual awareness, improved geolocation, and better communication.
• Identify and work on key improvements to make the application more scalable.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Growth mindset.
• Eager to work with engineering leadership and product on experiments.
• Experience working with experimentation platform and A/B testing.
• Many problems in the sensor frameworks require understanding hard-to-pinpoint and non-reproducible problems.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs to improve application performance and responsiveness.
• Problem-solving skills.
• We will be solving problems that do not have clear solutions with limited resources available online.
• Will be spending equally as much time designing and prototyping as writing production code.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and experience in making codebases more testable.
• Strong understanding of the iOS ecosystem.

Expert knowledge of Swift and familiarity with iOS frameworks and APIs.

• Design, build, and maintain advanced applications for the iOS platform with a focus on location-based services.
• Adaptable and able to pick up new concepts.
• Drive to level up.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor junior engineers to promote best practices and improve code quality.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to define, design, and ship new features and test strategies.
• We want someone who will take the craftsmanship of their work seriously and strive to improve the areas they work in continually.
• Pioneer new test strategies via automation to enhance the reliability and efficiency of our testing processes.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing automated test strategies.
• Strong communication skills.
• Will communicate with multiple teams, including both systems and product teams.
• At times, may need to communicate with external partners.

Bonus

• Familiarity with data analytics and marketing tools.
• Familiarity with location and other sensors.
• Familiarity with background running tasks/services on iOS.
• Familiarity with networking and persistence technologies.
• Familiarity with reactive programming, RxSwift, or Combine.
• Familiarity with developing highly polished user interfaces and animations.
• Familiarity with all levels of automated testing.

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 people with high integrity who 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, 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 based on 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 creates a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful. Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications below, you should still seriously consider applying!