Lillio (formerly HiMama)

Lillio (formerly HiMama)

Senior Platform Engineer

Canada, Remote · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedCAD 140k-CAD 160kDetected 134 days ago
RubyReactRailsFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisAWSCI/CDPrometheusDatadogDevOpsPlatform EngineeringGraphQLLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • You care about system reliability, performance, security, and developer experience as much as product delivery.
  • Lillio Engineering At Lillio, our Product & Engineering teams are a tight-knit unit.
  • From feature enhancements to the core product, ground-up engineering on brand-new architecture, data scaling, and system performance, our team strives for excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Lead System Evolution: Drive technical decisions regarding infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and platform architecture to ensure long-term scalability.
  • Operational Excellence: Lead the charge on system reliability and performance.
  • Develop and support internal team tooling
  • Mentor and support your peers, including through compassionate code review.
  • Drive technical decisions regarding infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and platform architecture to ensure long-term scalability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Required Technical Skills:
  • Ambition to work hard in order to make an impact.
  • Evidence of independence and self-starter attitude.
  • Collaborative, team-oriented mindset.
  • Knowledgeable about industry best practices and emerging trends

Nice to have

  • 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.
  • Accommodations may include but are not limited to: alternative methods of communication, providing a detailed "what to expect", or modified testing.
  • Lillio aims to ensure we provide a safe environment for everyone to thrive while bringing their authentic selves to work.
  • Embracing these differences while coming together with a common purpose is what makes our team extra special.

Skills

  • 5+ years of software engineering/devops experience at scale
  • Experience with AWS, RDS (Postgres), Heroku, Redis
  • Proficiency with Terrarform, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React
  • Demonstrated technical or project leadership experience.
  • 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.

Benefits

  • You take an active role in ensuring the operational health and stability of the system as a whole.
  • Hands-on experience with observability and reliability tools like Datadog, New Relic, Papertrail, Sentry or Prometheus to monitor system health

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 seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our dynamic platform engineering team.
  • In this role, you'll lead efforts to scale and improve our infrastructure, devex, and observability, while contributing across the stack when needed.
  • You'll help us make thoughtful trade-offs, simplify where possible, and build a platform that supports both our growth and our mission to elevate early childhood programs through high-quality software.
  • 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.
  • 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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