Senior Software Developer, Experimentation Remote, Canada

Life360 Inc.; United States; Remote; CAD 145,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Android Developer to join their International Growth team. This role involves shaping and delivering feature experiments that drive revenue growth in international markets. You'll work with a dynamic cross-functional team, utilizing your expertise in Kotlin and Android frameworks to design robust applications focused on location-based services. The position offers the opportunity to pioneer growth experiments and enhance product quality through automation and innovative features. Join a forward-thinking organization that values creativity and collaboration in a remote-first environment, where your contributions will have a significant impact on family connectivity.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Employee Assistance Program

Winter and Summer Week-long Company Shutdowns

Equipment and tools for remote work

Free Life360 Platinum Membership

Free Tile Products

RRSP plan with company matching

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Kotlin and familiarity with Android frameworks.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles.
• Experience in problem-solving with limited resources.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain robust Android frameworks using Kotlin.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features.
• Monitor experiment rollouts for quality assurance.

Skills

Kotlin

Android Frameworks

Problem-solving

Reactive Programming

Software Architecture Principles

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jetpack Compose

MVVM

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 a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 77 million monthly active users (MAU), as of November 2024, 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 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 Canada) regardless of any specified location above.

About The Team

The International Growth team is impact-driven and focused on driving revenue growth in international markets. Our work is centered around running innovative feature experiments that test product-market fit across regions. When an experiment proves successful, we don't stop there—we take ownership of building and scaling the solution end-to-end.

About the Job

As a Senior Android Developer at the International Growth team, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering feature experiments that fuel our revenue growth in international markets. You will be involved in the entire experiment lifecycle—from prototype grooming to development and the hardening phase. You will also monitor experiment rollouts to ensure our core user experience remains a high-quality bar.

The Canada-based salary range for this position is 145,000 to 169,500 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 robust Android frameworks using tools such as Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM, or other relevant frameworks.
• Opportunity to be on the leading edge of growth experimentation in International markets
• Own and reframe existing feature components.
• Create foundational automation workflows that lead to better product quality and reliability.
• Roadmap innovative features to bring families closer together through contextual awareness, improved geolocation, and better communication

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 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
• We will be solving problems that do not have clear solutions with limited resources available online.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and experience in making codebases more testable
• Designing and prototyping experiments/features that are being integrated into existing components
• Strong understanding of the Android ecosystem
• Expert knowledge of Kotlin and familiarity with Android frameworks and APIs.
• Being proficient with reactive programming
• Design, build, and maintain advanced applications for the Android 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.
• Strong communication
• High level of soft skills, will communicate with cross-operation group teams to facilitate the development process.
• At times, may need to communicate with external partners
• Being proficient in building and rolling out experiments

Bonus

• Familiarity with location and other sensors
• Familiarity with background running tasks/services on Android
• Familiarity with networking and persistence technologies
• Familiarity with developing highly polished user interfaces and animations
• Familiarity with all levels of automated testing
• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans
• RRSP plan with DPSP company matching program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well being
• Flexible PTO, several company wide days off throughout the year
• Winter and Summer Week-long Synchronized Company Shutdowns
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle
• Free Tile Products

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 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.

Our Commitment to Diversity

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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