Senior Backend Software Engineer, Life360
Java
CA$170-210k
+ Equity
Location sharing app for families
Job no longer available
Location sharing app for families
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
CA$170-210k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify safety, so families can live fully.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar quantitative field or the equivalent industry experience
- 6+ years of prior professional experience working on backend and Cloud code
- Diligent in implementing and supporting services that last outwards to a year
- Proficient in microservices and horizontally scalable architectures
- Adaptive to working on various aspects of our system for different teams
- Communicate effectively with cross-platform teammates
- Experience with high-scale, low-latency systems
- Understand how to deploy and maintain systems, ideally with kubernetes
- Bonus for experience working with Kafka Streams
- At Life360 we use certain technologies, experience with these technologies will serve you well: AWS (EC2, EKS, DynamoDB, Kinesis), databases (MySql), Languages (Java, Python, PHP)
What the job involves
- Come join us as we build the next evolution of our backend services to handle our ever growing user base
- We will continue to break down our monolith in favor of microservices that service our mobile clients today
- You will be working alongside our Architecture and Product teams to move fast as we expand the business
- Together, we will build systems that are strong and reliable to uphold a heavy load, yet malleable to fit many product demands
- Come lead coordinated efforts alongside mobile and web engineers designing and developing Cloud code in Java
- Create new Spring Java micro services to break down our existing PHP monolith or support new product features
- Create new API gateways to enable external integration (eg.Tile and JioBit)
- Horizontally scale our system to handle another 10+ billion events per day
- Monitor health, suggest improvements for and deploy your own services
- Example: Build the next generation of our event streaming architecture to handle billions of events per day storing up to trillions of events in cold storage
- Example: Build a system to support a richer dialog when checking in to a place
- Mentor other developers who are trying to grow
- Build technical specs with Staff engineers
- Handle on call rotation and address live incidents
- Help Test Engineers automate validating our components
Our take
Life360 is a platform for families that aims to bring them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate, and stay safe.
The business is particularly focused on enabling family members and friends to share their locations with one another. In addition, Life360 offers group messaging services, and also makes it possible for users to call for roadside assistance. The platform is focused on ensuring that both family members and friends can enhance their safety and connections with one another.
Customer service advisors are available on a real-time basis, while the developers of the app have also enhanced its privacy and security features recently. After an IPO in 2019, the company has received numerous awards and is recognized as a pioneer in its field, even piloting a new driving safety feature.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.1)
Trustpilot (2.5)
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Life360 has a culture of generating hypothesises, running tests, analysing the results and iterating. This has given me so much opportunity to learn..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2018
$28m
SERIES D
Dec 2017
$18.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $117.3m
Company values
- Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust that doesn’t tolerate jerks (even if they’re brilliant).
- Be Direct With Respect - We have a culture of radical candor that prevents company politics, passive aggressiveness, or being overly nice at the expense of performance and feedback.
- Members Over Metrics - We have a company that is known for an amazing customer experience and a culture of product excellence.
- High Intensity High Impact - We have a team of passionate, driven, ambitious people who work hard and are always challenging us to do better.
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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Leadership
Chris Hulls
(CEO)Joined US Air Force aged 17. Attended UC Berkeley. Founded Life360 in 2008.
Alex Haro
(Board Member)Co-founded with Chris Hulls in 2008 - CTO until 2019. Founded mymoneykarma in January 2020.
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