Senior Software Engineer, Life360
CA$165-170k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
Location sharing app for families
Job no longer available
Location sharing app for families
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
CA$165-170k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify safety, so families can live fully.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering
- At least six years of commercial software development experience
- At least three years of development experience in front end stack including Typescript,
- React, and Redux/Mobx
- Demonstrable experience with micro front ends, Styled System and Sytled Components,
- React Hooks, Typescript, and Javascript (ESNext) concepts, front end testing concepts,
- Webpack 5, Module Federation Plugin, Storybook, Jenkins, Git, AWS
- Experience building scalable, reliable, and high-performance web applications
- Prior experience working with a consumer internet company
What the job involves
- The Senior Software Engineer’s role includes designing, maintaining, evaluating, and architecting software for web product features and experiences in order meet customer needs and user expectations
- You will work closely with other seasoned engineers to design and produce innovative and responsive web applications and lead the development of the next generation of our systems and features
- Understand, collect, and translate user requirements to create speficifications and build amazing web user experiences and web applications through provision of technical insight
- Design, develop, plan, and coordinate the deployment of enhanced software solutions for web applications
- Develop models and procedures to instill high standards of code quality and documentation, ensuring that systems are maintained, performance is optimized, and systems are stable
- Research and develop clean, maintainable code and perform peer code reviews to test, troubleshoot, assess, and evaluate the performance of designs and features
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Lead and mentor team members to promote engineering excellence
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
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
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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