Senior Backend Engineer II, AI Native, Vertical Experiences

Life360's Vertical Experiences team builds pet-related features within the Devices org. As a Senior Backend Engineer II, you'll design and maintain backend services for device connectivity, telemetry ingest, and command/control. You'll work with AWS (EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS), Kafka, and microservices. The role is AI-native: you'll use AI coding agents daily for spec writing, code generation, testing, and incident triage. Collaborate with firmware, mobile, and product teams to deliver features

Bachelor's in CS or equivalent. 5+ years building backend services in Java, Go, Python, or similar. Experience with microservices, RESTful APIs, distributed systems, AWS (EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS), databases, caching, event streaming. Nice-to-have: IoT, telematics, Kafka, Kinesis, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, SRE practices. Must have hands-on agentic AI workflow experience and daily use of AI coding tools.