Key skills
KotlinAndroid developmentUI systems designTest automationFeature flaggingApp architectureCuriosityCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsLeadershipProject managementAIJUnitAndroidJetpack ComposeScrumCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Life360 is a company dedicated to keeping families connected through innovative mobile solutions. They are seeking a Senior Android Engineer II to lead the development of core application experiences that enhance user engagement and safety features for their app. This role involves collaboration with design and product teams to create high-performance components and ensure engineering excellence in mobile applications.
Responsibilities:
- Leadership over the development of core application experiences that increase the utility and emotional resonance of Life360 for millions of members. Interest in leading scrum meetings, helping EM & PM with roadmap planning, and writing code alongside other Android engineers
- Collaborate with Design and Product to evolve how members move through and experience the app, from onboarding to daily use, ensuring fast, intuitive, and delightful interaction patterns
- Design and develop reusable, high-performance components and tools that unlock faster experimentation, iteration, and cross-team collaboration
- Champion engineering excellence, app performance, quality, and reliability, particularly in the context of complex, global, location and safety-focused mobile applications
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience building consumer-facing Android applications at scale, ideally for high-MAU products
- Deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development (Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Architecture Components)
- Track record of building and leading complex UI systems with a focus on performance, modularity, scalability, and accessibility
- Hands-on implementation using feature flagging, experimentation and launch control platforms for safely scaling feature changes
- Strong understanding of app architecture, lifecycle management, dependency injection, and navigation paradigms
- Test automation experience using frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- History of driving fast pace projects to completion on time
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related technical field — or equivalent practical experience
- Experience supporting growth experimentation initiatives
- Experience with Google billing and subscription system
- AI-powered developer productivity tools experience (beyond ChatGPT)