Senior Software Engineer, Backend

April 27

Life360

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Family Networking • Location Based Services • Mobile • Connected Home • Connected Car

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💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2022-11

Description

• Create new Spring Java microservices to break down our existing PHP monolith or support new product features • Create new API gateways to enable external integration (e.g. Tile and JioBit) • 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 • Mentor other developers who are trying to grow • Build technical specs with Staff engineers • Handle on-call rotation and address live incidents • Help Test Engineers automate validating our components

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar quantitative field or the equivalent industry experience • 5+ years of prior professional experience working on backend and Cloud code • Diligent in implementing and supporting services that last outwards to a year • Proficient in microservices and horizontally scalable architectures • Adaptive to working on various aspects of our system for different teams • Communicate effectively with cross-platform teammates • Experience with high-scale, low-latency systems • Understand how to deploy and maintain systems, ideally with Kubernetes • Bonus for experience working with Kafka Streams • At Life360 we use certain technologies, experience with these technologies will serve you well: AWS (EC2, EKS, DynamoDB, Kinesis), databases (MySql), Languages (Java, Python, PHP)

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits • Supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees • RRSP with DPSP plan for Canadian employees • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental wellness. • Flexible PTO and 12 company-wide days off throughout the year • Learning & Development programs • Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment • Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle