Staff Software Engineer, Lillio
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Childcare center software
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Childcare center software
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower early childhood educators with affordable tools that enable them to improve developmental outcomes for the children they work with while educating parents about the importance of their work.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from an accredited University or relevant experience
- Strong communicator who enjoys collaborating with teammates
- Knowledgeable about best practices and emerging trends
- Ambition to work hard in order to make an impact
- Evidence of independence and self-starter attitude
- Propensity to always want to learn and improve
- Strong sense of empathy not only for the user but others that you work with
- 5+ years as a software engineer
- Demonstrated technical leadership
- Advanced expertise with relational databases (ideally Postgres), including performance optimization
- Experience with AWS including S3, RDS, Route 53 & load balancers
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React
Desirable
- Experience with Heroku
- Experience with Node JS
- Experience with mobile app development
What the job involves
- Staff engineers at Lillio play an important role in shaping the technology that empowers early childhood educators. They have an eye toward the future, stay on top of industry best practices, and pragmatically apply these learnings to improve the day to day lives of the Lillio engineering team.
- As a staff engineer, you will split your time between sharing your knowledge and expertise with your teammates, and building the next generation of tools and technologies to support our growing business. You will work closely with our platform team and other engineering leaders to build a technical vision and provide the stewardship to help the team move toward it
- At Lillio, our Product & Engineering teams are a tight-knit unit. By using strong product creation methodologies and processes, and by working closely together, we imagine and create great products that immediately make an impact in the lives of millions of educators, parents, and young children.
- The engineering team at Lillio is made up of full stack web engineers as well as multi-platform mobile experts. Every individual on the engineering team has the opportunity to make a big impact on growing the Lillio product offering with a wide and varied feature set as well as impacting how Lillio builds and delivers that product.
- From feature enhancements to the core product, ground-up engineering on brand-new architecture, data scaling, and system performance, our team strives for excellence. Engineering at Lillio requires being an adept problem solver that is hard working and motivated to get stuff done
- You’ll develop secure, high performance code for web-based applications using Ruby on Rails, GraphQL and React
- You will work with our infrastructure in AWS using Terraform and other tooling. You have experience in cloud and hosting technologies, including DNS, proxying & load balancing, EC2, S3 and other relevant services
- You are able to investigate and resolve performance issues using APM tools like New Relic
- You will leverage your knowledge and experience to help level up your team, mentor less experienced engineers, and advance best practices
- Collaborate with Product and Design teams to architect solutions and solve problems
- Opportunity to work in mobile development (ReactNative)
- Opportunity to contribute to product strategy / vision and user experience
Our take
Early childhood education plays a pivotal role in a child's developmental journey, yet unlike the advancements witnessed in later stages of education due to digitization, this crucial phase has seen limited progress.
Lillio, formerly HimMama offers a transformative solution for educators, enhancing classroom planning and enabling seamless sharing of progress with parents. By engaging the entire family in the learning process, Lillio's software fosters a holistic learning experience. Additionally, the software streamlines childcare center management, automating tasks and cutting costs, thus freeing up valuable time for teachers.
Aiming to bolster its revenue streams, Lillio, akin to other specialized software providers for small businesses, has ventures into payment services. While competition looms from rivals like Procare, a legacy software provider backed by private equity, and startup Brightwheel, Lillio's potential market encompasses over a million daycare operations in North America. This expansive landscape bodes well for the impressive growth prospects of all three companies.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$48.7m
SERIES B
May 2020
$3.5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $57.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible working arrangements, with the option to work from our vibrant downtown Toronto office or work remotely
- Health benefits package includes medical, dental and vision
- Paid time off, including vacation, personal days, paid sick days, and paid volunteer days
- Opportunities for learning, mentorship and professional development
- Ongoing team-wide and company-wide virtual social activities and success celebrations
Company values
- Be a Good Person: We genuinely care for ourselves and others and show this in our daily interactions. We aim to foster a welcoming environment that cherishes diversity and empathy for all
- Work Hard & Win: We take every opportunity to make an impact at work, in our lives, and in our society. We embody a growth mindset and proudly celebrate growth and progress
- Own Positive Change: We proudly roll up our sleeves and do the work that needs to be done. We take pride in every interaction, and keep our eye on the prize to deliver exicting results
Company HQ
Downtown Yonge East, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Alana Frome
(CTO)More than 10 years of software development experience including as employee #2 at Evisors (now Firsthand).
Ron Spreeuwenberg
(Board Member)Over ten years of experience helping companies to improve their operations through technology. Holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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