Senior Mobile Ads Engineer - AI Native iOS

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 119,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Mental wellness program

Generous time off

Remote work equipment reimbursement

Life360 Platinum membership

Job summary

Life360 is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for Mobile, On App Ads, to join our AI Native engineering team. This senior engineer will own key iOS ads functionality, including the in‑house SDK, header bidding, mediation, and consent flows, while collaborating across product, data, and partner teams.

The role emphasizes AI‑native development, cross‑platform flexibility, and delivering ad formats that balance revenue and member experience for 300M+ daily ad requests.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of iOS engineering shipping production apps at consumer scale.
• At least 1 year of hands‑on experience prompting, evaluating, and building with LLMs.
• Strong proficiency in Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit, plus modern iOS toolchain.
• Experience with iOS architecture patterns (MVVM, coordinators, dependency injection, modularization).
• Experience integrating and debugging third‑party SDKs in production, including version upgrades and impact on app size.
• Bachelor's degree in technical field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the iOS ads layer: in‑house SDK, demand partner integrations, mediation.
• Introduce new ad formats and placements to grow revenue while preserving the member experience.
• Own privacy and consent on iOS (ATT, IDFA, SKAdNetwork).
• Protect ad quality: detect and resolve issues, collaborate with ad ops.
• Instrument ad events (requests, impressions, clicks, revenue) for reliable metrics.
• Run A/B tests and translate results into decisions.
• Collaborate with product, ad ops, data science, and partner teams.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

iOS development

MVVM

CI/CD

Third‑party SDKs

LLMs / prompts

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Xcode

GitHub Actions

Fastlane

CocoaPods

SPM

Job description

Life360 is hiring a Senior Software Engineer II for Mobile, On App Ads, to join our AI Native engineering team. This senior engineer will own key iOS ads functionality, including the in‑house SDK, header bidding, mediation, and consent flows, while collaborating across product, data, and partner teams.

The role emphasizes AI‑native development, cross‑platform flexibility, and delivering ad formats that balance revenue and member experience for 300M+ daily ad requests.