Staff Developer Back End Cloud, Revenue - Remote

Overview

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 88 million monthly active users (MAU), as of June 2025 across more than 180 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

In Short

• Join Life360 to build backend services for an expanding user base.
• Transition from a monolith to microservices architecture.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Product teams.
• Lead efforts to build robust cloud code in Java and PHP.
• Ensure system reliability and scalability.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership.
• Engage in hands-on coding and problem solving.
• Contribute to building API gateways for integrations.
• Work with AI and machine learning for predictive features.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of programming experience in Java, PHP, or Python.
• Expertise in AWS deployments and infrastructure management.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Chef.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and CI/CD practices.
• Proficient in multi-threaded design and microservices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with database systems is a plus.
• Ability to adapt to various technical challenges.
• Bonus for experience with Kafka Streams.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits package.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• RRSP plan with company matching.
• Employee Assistance Program for mental well-being.
• Flexible PTO and company-wide days off.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Support for a productive remote work environment.
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership.
• Free Tile products.