Staff Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Staff Engineer at Lillio, a social-purpose business in the early childhood education industry. The role involves shaping technology that empowers early childhood educators, working closely with the platform team, and contributing to product strategy/vision and user experience.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, high performance code for web-based applications using Ruby on Rails, GraphQL and React
• Work with infrastructure in AWS using Terraform and other tooling
• Investigate and resolve performance issues using APM tools like New Relic
• 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)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Heroku
• Experience with Node JS
• Experience with mobile app development

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements; we are a remote-first company who gathers together (virtually) every quarter, and in-person at least once per year. You must be willing to travel in-person as required for the role
• Health benefits package includes medical, dental and vision
• 401K matching, and HSA contribution for US employees
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal and volunteer days
• Opportunities for learning, mentorship and professional development
• A subscription to the mindfulness and meditation platform, Headspace
• Ongoing team-wide and company-wide virtual social activities and success celebrations