Lillio6mo ago

Senior Software Engineer

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Overview

About Lillio (formerly HiMama) and Our Mission: At Lillio (formerly HiMama), we are a mission driven business with the goal of empowering early childhood educators through innovative, affordable tools that enable them to improve child outcomes, engage family members, and support continued…

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About Lillio (formerly HiMama) and Our Mission:

At Lillio (formerly HiMama), we are a mission driven business with the goal of empowering early childhood educators through innovative, affordable tools that enable them to improve child outcomes, engage family members, and support continued professional growth for their staff. We are committed to serving the field as an authentic voice of the early childhood education (ECE) workforce, providing programs with all of the building blocks for high-quality early care and education and helping early educators focus on what matters most for children’s successful development and learning: relationships, play, creativity, and loving, nurturing caregiving. If you are excited about being part of an impact-driven business, focused on making a difference in the early childhood education industry, Lillio is the place for you.

Lillio is a Series B, private-equity backed company and we're proud to be part of the Bain Double Impact portfolio. Lillio is recognized as an industry leader, most recently selected in 2025 by Time Magazine as one of the world's top EdTech companies.

We’re looking for…

A talented and motivated full stack engineer to join our dynamic engineering team. You care deeply not just about the security, performance, and maintainability of your code, but about our mission to elevate early childhood programs with innovative design and quality solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer you will play a lead role in designing, developing, and maintaining web applications using Ruby on Rails, React, and GraphQL.

Lillio Engineering

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.

Develop secure, performant, and well-tested code for web applications using Ruby on Rails, GraphQL and React.

Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define project requirements and specifications.

Mentor and coach your peers, including compassionate code review.

Troubleshoot and debug issues as part of our shared on-call rotation.

Lead technical decision making and contribute to establishing best practices for your team.

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 or project leadership experience

Demonstrated expertise with relational databases

Proficiency with Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React

Experience with data monitoring and logging tools, ex Sentry, New Relic, Data Dog, etc

Experience with mobile app development

Knowledge of UX and UI best practices and trends

Experience with AWS, Postgres, Heroku

Comfort leveraging AI (such as): Claude, Gemini, Co-Pilot, MCP, etc.

AWS, PostgreSQL, Heroku

Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React Native

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job

Canada

Remote within one country

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Listing Details

Posted: November 4, 2025
First seen: March 26, 2026
Last seen: May 11, 2026

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Days active: 46
Repost count: 0
Trust Level: 39%
Scored at: May 11, 2026

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Lillio (formerly HiMama) is a childcare technology platform designed to inform and engage parents about their children's well-being, learning, and development, while also streamlining administrative tasks for educators.

Employees

125

Founded

2013

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