Team Lead / Manager, Engineering

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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 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. 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. 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. ### How You’ll Make an Impact: - You are an engineer who likes to win and loves seeing product deliver value to customers! Not only do you help solve technical problems, but you do so through a product-lens; you have a deep understanding of both engineering and product management frameworks and know how to apply them to achieve results - You are a true leader within the organization - You bring enthusiasm and motivation within and across teams for our customers, company, team culture, and the individuals you manage. - 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. - Continuously improve engineering practices and processes within your team and the engineering organization. - 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. - Bring a passion to stay on top of industry trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, and participate in internal and external technical communities. - Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, and self-organization. - Shape and scale our Lillio engineering and company culture as we continue to grow. ### What You Bring to the Table: - 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. - A strong understanding of how to plan, build, test, and maintain complex software applications. - 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. ### Required Technical 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. - Effective communication and collaboration skills for partnering with Product, Design, and other stakeholder teams. - Proven ability to align roadmap with business objectives. ### Nice to Have: - Experience with SOC2 Controls and Implementation. - Experience with AWS, Postgres, Heroku. - Familiarity with observability tools ### Tech stack: - AWS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, React, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript