About HiMama and Our Mission: HiMama is improving learning outcomes for children aged zero to five. We are a social purpose business and certified B Corporation that connects families with the early childhood professionals who serve them. Our goal is to empower early childhood educators with affordable tools that enable them to improve developmental outcomes for the children they work with, while educating parents about the importance of their work. If you are excited about being part of a high-growth tech company focused on making a difference in a highly impactful industry, HiMama is the place for you!
Key Product Stats:500 Million Moments, with 300 push notifications being sent per second500 Thousand Users, with a new User being added every minute
HiMama’s product can be easily visualized in three distinct parts:
Teachers- For early childhood educators, HiMama is an in-classroom tool for daily documentation, learning amp; development recording and planning, and communication with parents.
Administrators- For preschool owners/directors, HiMama is a back-office tool for monitoring center activity, administrative reporting, collecting tuition payments, and communicating with parents.
Parents- For families, HiMama is a direct window into their child’s life at daycare: Everything from meal details to photos to learning milestones. And of course, a direct line of communication to their child care center.
HiMama EngineeringThe engineering team at HiMama 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 HiMama product offering with a wide and varied feature set, as well as impacting how HiMama builds and delivers that product. From feature enhancements to the core product, ground-up engineering on brand-new architecture, data scaling, and system performance on Android, iOS and web-based applications, our team does it ALL. Engineering at HiMama requires being an adept problem solver that is hard working and motivated to get stuff done. What You'll Be Doing
- Lead efforts to design, implement and grow our data infrastructure
- Work with senior technical leadership to develop recommendations that will determine the underpinnings of our future data engineering efforts
- Collaborate with other senior engineers on the team, as well as subject matter experts outside of engineering, to find the appropriate architectural approach to develop solutions for data ingestion and business reporting
- Make a significant impact on how we approach data for many years to come
What We're Looking For
- Experience in designing and developing data infrastructure from the ground up
- Experience maintaining data pipelines from multiple data sources, in collaboration with diverse partners
- Experience working with large data sets and building data pipelines
- Strong background in relational database concepts with solid knowledge in SQL, SQL tuning, etc.
- Experience in operationalizing data infrastructure tools and technologies as shared services
- Strong desire to seek pragmatic, innovative solutions to complex business and technical problems
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams
- Deep technical understanding of software engineering and working with data at scale
- Experience working with AWS
Required Technical Skills
- 5+ years as a data engineer
- 5+ years of experience designing batch and/or real time data pipeline systems
- 3+ years of experience with AWS, RDS and PostgreSQL
- 3+ years working with relational databases
Don’t have all the requirements but convinced you’ll be able to make an impact? We’d love to hear from you!?HiMama Perks!• Flexible working arrangements, with the option to work from our vibrant downtown Toronto office or work remotely • Health benefits package includes medical, dental and vision• Paid time off, including vacation, personal days, paid sick days, and paid volunteer days• Opportunities for learning, mentorship and professional development• Ongoing team-wide and company-wide virtual social activities and success celebrations
AccessibilityHiMama is committed to inclusiveness, equity and accessibility. If you require accommodations at any step of the application or interview process, please indicate so under the "Accommodations Question" box on your application. Accommodations may include but are not limited to: alternative methods of communication, providing a detailed what to expect, or modified testing. Please note this list is not exhaustive and we are more than happy to discuss other accommodations as required. If y