Engineering Manager, Mobile Experiences
Tile
About Life360
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 88 million monthly active users (MAU), as of June 2025 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. 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 the US and Canada) regardless of any specified location above.
About the Role
We are hiring an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and scale our Mobile Experiences team within the Location Experiences group. These teams directly build and support many of Life360's highest-impact, most widely used app experiences while also creating frameworks that enable other teams across the company to contribute seamlessly.
This role is ideal for a strategic, technically grounded, user-obsessed leader who will shape the future of our application experience. You’ll ensure seamless interactions across map, content sheets, focus modes, notifications, and other primary surfaces, while enabling new partner strategies and integrated experiences. The leader will be key in working towards an intelligent and personalized experience to make interactions more relevant, engaging, and valuable for every family. You’ll be accountable for creating the conditions that allow teams to autonomously deliver polished, scalable experiences that delight millions of users.
For candidates based in the US, the salary range for this position is $166,500 to $245,000 USD. For candidates based out of Canada, the salary range for this position is $195,500 to $230,000 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
- Lead strong mobile engineering teams, partnering closely with senior staff engineers to drive cross-functional projects
- Drive strategy and execution for core app surfaces while building frameworks that enable company-wide contributions
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to guide and execute on the long-term direction of the Life360 application experience
- Champion a culture of user obsessiveness, ensuring delivery of experiences that are intuitive, polished, and impactful
- Balance near-term delivery of high-value features that iteratively work towards longer-term strategic initiatives
- Drive operational excellence across systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and observability
- Build an engineering culture focused on high standards, rapid iteration, and delivering measurable member value
What We’re Looking For
- Proven track record building polished, high-quality consumer-facing mobile applications at scale
- Experience shipping frameworks that enable other teams to contribute seamlessly
- Ability to blend technical design with product thinking, collaborating with Product, Design, and Engineering to prioritize member value and deliver cohesive experiences
- Experience using metrics to guide iteration, with a background in personalization or intelligent systems that enhance user-facing features
- Strong leadership skills in building efficient, self-motivated teams that focus on outcomes and impact
- Familiarity with the latest advancements in mobile and cloud technologies
- 3+ years of engineering management (multiple teams) and 7+ years of hands-on mobile software development
- Excellent communication and influence skills, with proven ability to lead in a remote-first environment
Bonus
- Expertise in geo-aware, location-based, or mapping applications, with a focus on creating intuitive and seamless user interactions at scale
- Experience applying AI or personalization in consumer-facing applications to create intelligent, adaptive user experiences
- Experience enabling external partners or white-label solutions, building frameworks or platforms that support extensibility beyond internal teams
- Demonstrated success in building and scaling server-driven UI systems or widely adopted, flexible UX frameworks
- Background leading initiatives that bridge mobile and cloud engineering, ensuring cohesive strategy and execution across domains
Our Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for US employees). We offer supplemental plans for medical and dental for Canadian employees.
- 401(k) plan with company matching program in the US and 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.
Life360 Values
Our company’s mission driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference
- 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!
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