Staff Android Engineer, Experiences in London

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 91.6 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 180 countries. Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small.

The Experiences Department is responsible for the core member experience that defines how families use Life360 every day. Our teams build the surfaces and systems that answer essential questions like: How is my family right now? How do we stay coordinated and connected? Where has my family been? We create the foundations and interactions that support real-time awareness, history, communication, insights, and everyday family coordination.

Our 2026 focus is to deliver a fast, cohesive, and emotionally resonant free user experience that reflects the company’s long-term Magic of Location vision. We partner closely with Design, Product, and engineering teams across Location Platform, Intelligence, and Cloud to bring this vision to life at scale.

This role reports directly to the Senior Director of Engineering for Experiences and operates horizontally across all teams within Experiences. You will help unify across the department and ensure we build toward a consistent, high-quality vision.

We are looking for a Staff Android Engineer who will elevate the cohesion, quality, and long-term direction of the core user experience across Life360. This role focuses on the core journeys at the heart of our product: “Where is my family?,” “How do we stay connected and coordinated?,” and “Where was my family?” These experiences span real-time positioning, notifications, communication, history, contextual insights, and the cohesive experience that reflects our mission to make everyday family life better.

You will help define how these surfaces fit together, both technically and experientially. Your work will ensure that individual features contribute to a unified, intuitive, and emotionally expressive user experience. You will also shape the roadmap by influencing product and design decisions and providing clear technical framing for how we sequence and deliver impactful work.

This is a high-leverage role that works closely with technical leaders across teams. You will collaborate deeply with Design, Product, engineering leadership, and partner groups such as Location Platform and Intelligence. You will bring clarity to complex problems, strengthen consistency, and help teams move quickly without compromising quality.

In addition to experience-level leadership, you will support department-wide engineering efficiency by championing modern tooling, workflow automation, and AI-enhanced development practices that reduce friction and increase velocity. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of user experience, architecture, and mission-driven product development. You will help shape the Android foundation that brings families closer together.

For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $167,000 to $280,500. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is $194,000 to $260,000 CAD. Note: Please be aware that the job title for positions in Canada will be “Developer” in lieu of “Engineer.” 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

• Help drive and define Android experiences across Maps, Realtime, Feed, Notifications, History, and coordination features.
• Work closely with technical leads across individual teams to align on patterns, architectural guardrails, and execution plans.
• Provide direction that helps teams sequence work effectively and build toward a cohesive, long-term experience.
• Influence product and design direction, translate goals into clear engineering plans, and ensure teams understand tradeoffs and implementation paths.
• Unblock complex technical challenges, deliver prototypes, perform deep reviews, and raise the bar for engineering quality across the department.
• Write production code while focusing on high-leverage activities that accelerate teams and improve architectural consistency.
• Improve engineering efficiency through better tooling, workflow automation, and AI-enabled development practices.
• Collaborate closely with Design to deliver polished, intuitive, and emotionally expressive interactions.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience building consumer-facing Android applications at scale, ideally in high-engagement, high-MAU products.
• Deep expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development practices such as Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, and Architecture Components.
• Strong architectural skills and the ability to define patterns and guide technical direction across multiple teams.
• Experience leading complex, multi-team initiatives and delivering cohesive end-to-end user experiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with Design to build polished, intuitive, and high-quality interactions.
• Ability to influence product direction through technical insight, clear framing, and thoughtful evaluation of trade-offs.
• Demonstrated strength as a hands-on technical multiplier through mentorship, deep reviews, prototyping, and unblocker-level problem solving.
• Experience with AI-enabled tooling or developer workflow automation.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with server-driven UI, scalable UX frameworks, or large-scale client architecture.
• Experience building personalized or contextual experiences that adapt to user behavior, environment, or real-world signals.
• Experience building location-aware or contextually rich mobile apps, including real-time systems or history pipelines.
• Experience leading multi-quarter platform rewrites or major UX migrations.
• Background in expressive UI systems such as avatars, emotive interfaces, or motion frameworks.
• Knowledge of real-time event systems, context engines, or interface contracts between mobile and cloud.

Life360 Values

• Be a Good Person – We have a team of high integrity people you can trust.
• Be Direct With Respect – We communicate directly, even when it’s hard.
• Members Before Metrics – We focus on building an exceptional experience for families.
• High Intensity High Impact – We do whatever it takes to get the job done.

Our Commitment to Diversity

We believe that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic best selves to work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Life360. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any legally protected status. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful.

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the below qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying!