Senior Software Engineer II AI-Native, backend Growth
Core
Design and build high-quality API and services for Life360's payment infrastructure, product integrations, and alerting/monitoring systems to support growth and monetization.
Role type
Senior IC backend software engineer (AI-Native)
Builds
Payment infrastructure, product integrations, alerting, and monitoring services for millions of subscribers
Domain
Fintech / SaaS / Family safety apps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, distributed systems design, cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerized deployments, agentic workflows
Preferred skills
Stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams, Flink), schema registries, Confluent Platform, CI/CD patterns, observability tooling
Technologies
Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
Responsibilities
Design and build APIs and services for payment infrastructure and integrations; orchestrate AI agents to create specs, generate code/tests, and verify results; define AI-Native engineering practices and playbooks; collaborate with product/design on scalable solutions; contribute to architecture and code reviews; participate in on-call rotation; mentor team members on AI workflows
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership