Senior Android Developer, Experiences (AI Focus)

Life360

1d•Remote

About The Position

Life360 is undergoing a major redesign of its mobile application to make it faster, more intuitive, and emotionally engaging for families worldwide. As a Senior Android Engineer on the Experiences team, you will play a key role in executing this vision. You'll contribute to the development of high-impact surfaces across the Life360 app, including our app navigation, home screen experience, and personalized content surfaces to create valuable engagement loops for our customers. You’ll work closely with design, product, and platform engineers to bring new experiences to life and evolve how millions of users interact with the Life360 platform every day. You’ll be expected to work with AI tooling natively integrated into your Android development workflow — using it as a daily collaborator for code generation, review, test authoring and ticket generation. This role is an excellent fit for someone who is an early adopter of AI technologies, values thoughtful user experience, and is excited to contribute to one of the most essential apps for families. The Canada-based salary range for this position is $149,500 to $177,500 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.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building high-quality Android applications, preferably for consumer-scale products.
2+ years experience prompting and evaluating LLM outputs
Experience in prompt engineering, agentic workflows, context window management and MCP function calling
Strong proficiency in Kotlin and modern Android frameworks, including Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and Architecture Components
Experience working within or contributing to design systems and reusable UI component libraries
A clear understanding of Android app architecture, UI performance tuning, and lifecycle management
Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset when working with product managers, designers, and cross-platform teams
Experience developing high-quality, delightful UX experiences

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks, remote config, or server-driven UI concepts is a plus

Responsibilities

Build and iterate on core app experiences that drive engagement and improve daily utility for Life360 members.
Develop with AI (Claude) treated as a first-class collaborator where your role is primarily to orchestrate agents to generate code, review and test
Implement modular, reusable, maintainable, and performant UI components using modern Android practices such as Jetpack Compose and Kotlin.
Collaborate with designers and product managers to turn user problems and experience goals into scalable engineering solutions.
Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to the ongoing Compose migration and app redesign efforts.
Ensure a high level of UI polish and user experience consistency by creating UX frameworks that orchestrate experiences leveraging our design system.
Support app performance, accessibility, and reliability through testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Conduct thoughtful code reviews and contribute to a strong, inclusive engineering culture.