Staff Software Developer, Life360
Backend
$195.5-230k
+ Equity
Location sharing app for families
Open for applications
Location sharing app for families
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$195.5-230k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify safety, so families can live fully.
Role
Who you are
- If you're passionate about building strong, resilient systems that drive delightful, real-time experiences for millions of users, we’d love to hear from you
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience programming in Java, PHP, Python, or other formal programming language
- Expert level experience managing medium to large scale deployments on AWS (~5000 instances, 50+ accounts)
- Expert level experience with Infrastructure as code tools: Terraform, CloudFormation; config management/provisioning tools: Ansible, Chef, etc
- Strong Kubernetes experience deploying and running at scale (10k+ containers)
- Strong Build / Automation / CI/CD experience
- Proficient in multi-threaded design and implementation
- Database knowledge is a plus to have
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a highly collaborative working style. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Staff Back End Cloud Developer to help power the Life360 experience, where we keep families and extended communities connected
- In this role, you'll lead the design and development of robust and scalable Cloud systems in Java that are built to handle heavy loads while remaining adaptable to evolving product demands
- Working closely with mobile and web engineers, you will spearhead coordinated efforts with our Architecture and Product teams, ensuring rapid and reliable development as we expand the business
- You will also collaborate with Engineering Managers, the Director of Engineering, and fellow Staff Engineers to define and execute our technical roadmap
- Create new Spring Java micro services to support new product features
- Create new API gateways to enable external integration
- 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
- Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers across multiple teams
- Handle on call rotation and address live incidents
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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