Lillio (formerly HiMama)

Lillio (formerly HiMama)

Team Lead / Manager, Engineering

Canada, Remote · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedCAD 130k-CAD 180kDetected 152 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLAWSComplianceProduct ManagementProduct StrategyLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • As an TL/EM at Lillio you will act as a bridge between high level product strategy and technical execution, but you are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and get dirty.
  • You have a keen product sense, ensuring that the customer is always at the forefront of our solutions.
  • Lillio Engineering At Lillio, our Product & Engineering teams are a tight-knit unit.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the professional and technical growth and development of a diverse team of engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, objectives setting, tracking career growth, etc.
  • Take a leadership role in our recruiting, hiring, and onboarding processes & maintain our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging.
  • Collaborate across teams to design, build, and ship great experiences for our users.
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills for partnering with Product, Design, and other stakeholder teams.

Requirements

  • A strong understanding of how to plan, build, test, and maintain complex software applications.
  • Required Technical Skills:
  • You are a true leader within the organization
  • Someone who enjoys mentoring and coaching others, inclusive of all backgrounds and in all levels of career development.
  • Someone who loves to see teams working well and will identify and implement new processes in order to do so.
  • An adept communicator who ensures everyone is on the same page to execute as a team.
  • A collaborative owner who takes a personal stake in the success of the product and the team to deliver great work and celebrate wins.
  • A strong focus on results, including communicating and solving problems as they arrive.
  • Propensity to always want to learn and improve.
  • Ambition to work hard in order to make an impact through our social mission of improving child outcomes.

Nice to have

  • Experience with SOC2 Controls and Implementation.
  • Experience with AWS, Postgres, Heroku.
  • Familiarity with observability tools
  • This role is posted to hire a backfill.
  • Don't have all the requirements but convinced you'll be able to make an impact?
  • We'd love to hear from you!
  • Please note that we place serious consideration to your application responses to all questions
  • only completed profiles will be considered for this role.

Skills

  • 3+ years experience leading/managing software development teams.
  • Strong technical background, with the ability to engage in and guide technical discussions, or be hands-on when needed.
  • Proven ability to align roadmap with business objectives.
  • Commitment to Diversity Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging are central to Lillio's core values.
  • Equal Employment Lillio is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Compensation

  • Lillio Perks -- Flexible working arrangements; we are a remote-first company who gathers together (virtually) every quarter, and in-person at least once per year.

Company info

  • 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 motivated, hands-on Team Lead or Engineering Manager (depending on the candidate profile) to lead and empower our product engineering teams, advancing our mission to elevate early childhood programs through technical innovation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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