Senior Android Developer, Networking & Data

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote (within Canada)
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: 145,000 - 169,500 CAD (Base pay may vary)

Life360's mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 80 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 150 countries. Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends that basically are family). Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com. Life360 is a Remote First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within Canada) regardless of any specified location above. This role is for an Senior Android Developer within the Life360 team. This person will be an integral part of the core of our app as they will be required to become experts in technologies supporting our highly visible mapping, communication, driving & safety features. As a member of the team it is expected that you will be highly involved in architecting, designing and leading development of the next generation of our systems and features.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in Java/Kotlin
• Gradle, Android Studio knowledge
• Experience working on a commercial app (presently found on the app store)
• Passionate for technology and never-ending curiosity about the new features in Android
• Comfortable with multiple areas of the Android SDK
• Comfortable in a small, intense environment

Responsibilities

• Work on a cross-functional team with close cooperation with Product, Design, Marketing & Data Science
• Develop and maintain networking, data and authorization frameworks which enable core functionality in the Life360 app
• Build and maintain high-throughput systems that emit meta and sensor data to Kafka streams
• Participate in interviewing potential candidates and improving the candidate experience by providing feedback

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