• 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

• 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