Android Engineer

About Life
360  Life
360’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 various services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life
360 serves approximately 66 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 150 countries.
Life
360 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 who are basically family).
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360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit   .
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360 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 the US and Canada) regardless of any specified location above.
About the Job  This role is for an Android Engineer within the Life
360 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 the development of the next generation of our systems and features.

Note:

Please be aware that the job title for positions in Canada will be "Developer" in lieu of "Engineer."
For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is 107,000 to 149,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is 125,500 to 140,000 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.
What You’ll Do   Work with a cross-functional team and collaborate closely with design, back-end engineering, marketing, data science, and product.
Design and maintain robust frameworks for Android using tools such as Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, MVVM, or other relevant frameworks.
Create foundational automation workflows that lead to better product quality and reliability.
Opportunity to be on the leading edge of location experiences in a high-visibility team
Roadmap innovative features to bring families closer together through contextual awareness, improved geolocation, and better communication
What We’re Looking For   Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Strong debugging skills
Many problems in the sensor frameworks require understanding hard-to-pinpoint and non-reproducible problems.
Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs to improve application performance and responsiveness.
Problem-solving
We will be solving problems that do not have clear solutions with limited resources available online.
Architecture mindset
Will be spending equally as much time designing and prototyping as writing production code
Strong understanding of software architecture principles and experience in making codebases more testable
Strong understanding of the Android ecosystem
Expert knowledge of Kotlin and familiarity with Android frameworks and APIs.
Design, build, and maintain advanced applications for the Android platform with a focus on location-based services
Adaptable and able to pick up new concepts
Drive to level up
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