Manager, Engineering

About Lillio (formerly HiMama) And Our Mission

At Lillio, we are a mission-driven business focused on empowering early childhood educators through innovative, affordable tools. Our goal is to improve child outcomes, engage family members, and support the professional growth of staff. We are committed to being an authentic voice for the early childhood education (ECE) workforce, providing programs with the essential building blocks for high-quality early care and education. We help early educators concentrate on what truly matters for children's successful development and learning: relationships, play, creativity, and nurturing caregiving. If you are passionate about being part of an impact-driven business dedicated to making a difference in the early childhood education industry, Lillio is the ideal place for you.

Lillio is a Series B, private-equity backed company, proud to be part of the Bain Double Impact portfolio. Recognized as an industry leader, Lillio was recently selected by Time Magazine in 2025 as one of the world's top EdTech companies.

We’re looking for…

A motivated, hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and empower our product engineering teams. This role is crucial in advancing our mission to elevate early childhood programs through technical innovation. As an Engineering Manager at Lillio, you will bridge high-level product strategy with technical execution, and you are expected to be hands-on when necessary. You possess a keen product sense, ensuring that customer needs remain at the forefront of all our solutions.

Lillio Engineering

At Lillio, our Product & Engineering teams operate as a tight-knit unit. Through strong product creation methodologies and close collaboration, we conceptualize and build impactful products that immediately benefit millions of educators, parents, and young children.

The engineering team comprises full stack web engineers and multi-platform mobile experts. Every team member has a significant opportunity to contribute to the growth of Lillio’s product offering, impacting a wide and varied feature set, as well as influencing how Lillio builds and delivers its products. Our team strives for excellence across feature enhancements, ground-up engineering on new architecture, data scaling, and system performance. Engineering at Lillio requires adept problem-solving skills, hard work, and motivation to achieve results.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• You are an engineer who thrives on success and loves seeing product delivery create value for customers.
• You solve technical problems with a product-centric lens, leveraging a deep understanding of engineering and product management frameworks to achieve results.
• You will be a true leader, bringing enthusiasm and motivation within and across teams for our customers, company, culture, and your direct reports.
• Manage the professional and technical growth of a diverse engineering team through regular 1:1s, feedback, objective setting, and career tracking.
• Continuously improve engineering practices and processes within your team and the broader engineering organization.
• Take a leadership role in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding, maintaining our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Collaborate across teams to design, build, and ship exceptional user experiences.
• Demonstrate a passion for staying current with industry trends, experimenting with new technologies, and participating in technical communities.
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, creative thinking, teamwork, and self-organization.
• Shape and scale Lillio’s engineering and company culture as we continue to grow.

What You Bring To The Table

• Enjoys mentoring and coaching individuals from all backgrounds and career stages.
• Identifies and implements new processes to foster effective team collaboration.
• Strong understanding of planning, building, testing, and maintaining complex software applications.
• An adept communicator who ensures team alignment for efficient execution.
• A collaborative owner invested in the success of the product and team, committed to delivering great work and celebrating achievements.
• Strong focus on results, including effective communication and problem-solving.
• A continuous desire for learning and improvement.
• Ambition to make a significant impact through our social mission of improving child outcomes.

Required Technical Skills

• 3+ years experience leading/managing software development teams.
• Strong technical background, enabling engagement in and guidance of technical discussions, with hands-on capability 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

Compensation & Benefits

This position offers an annual salary ranging from $130,000 to $180,000. It is also eligible to participate in the company Stock Option Plan.

Lillio is a remote-first company offering flexible working arrangements. We gather virtually every quarter and in-person at least once per year; willingness to travel for these events is required. Our comprehensive health benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage. Employees enjoy generous paid time off, including vacation, personal, and volunteer days. We provide ample opportunities for learning, mentorship, and professional development, alongside a subscription to the mindfulness platform Headspace. We foster a vibrant culture with ongoing team-wide and company-wide virtual social activities and success celebrations.

Accessibility & Diversity

Lillio is committed to inclusiveness, equity, and accessibility. Accommodations can be provided at any step of the application or interview process. Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging are central to Lillio's core values, promoted through education, discussion, and celebration of differences via our DIBS committee, bi-weekly discussions, Slack community, training, volunteer days, and donation matching. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants without discrimination. While we may use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, human judgment makes final decisions.

Key skills/competency

• Engineering Leadership
• Software Development Management
• Product Strategy Alignment
• Team Mentorship
• Process Improvement
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Recruitment & Onboarding
• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• React