Senior Software Engineer
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Description
- A talented and motivated full stack engineer to join our dynamic engineering team
- You care deeply not just about the security, performance, and maintainability of your code, but about our mission to elevate early childhood programs with innovative design and quality solutions
- As a Senior Software Engineer you will play a lead role in designing, developing, and maintaining web applications using Ruby on Rails, React, and GraphQL
- 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
- Develop secure, performant, and well-tested code for web applications using Ruby on Rails, GraphQL and React
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define project requirements and specifications
- Mentor and coach your peers, including compassionate code review
- Troubleshoot and debug issues as part of our shared on-call rotation
- Lead technical decision making and contribute to establishing best practices for your team
- 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
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from an accredited University or relevant experience
- Strong communicator who enjoys collaborating with teammates
- Strong sense of empathy not only for the user but others that you work with
- Knowledgeable about best practices and emerging trends
- Demonstrated expertise with relational databases
- Proficiency with Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React
- Experience with data monitoring and logging tools, ex Sentry, New Relic, Data Dog, etc
- 5+ years as a software engineer
- Demonstrated technical or project leadership experience
- Knowledge of UX and UI best practices and trends
- Experience with AWS, Postgres, Heroku
- 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
- Comfort leveraging AI (such as): Claude, Gemini, Co-Pilot, MCP, etc
- Experience with mobile app development