Frontend Developer (Lylli App)

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Are you a kid at heart looking to build a career with a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company?

At Spin Master, our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader. How do we stay ahead of the pack? By hiring the best and brightest minds—and that’s why we want you!

Job Description

What will you work on?

Lylli Studio is looking for a Frontend Developer to lead the development of our internal creator operations portal. This role is critical in establishing a scalable frontend architecture that empowers teams to build tools independently while maintaining consistency, performance, and usability.

Lylli is an innovative app that brings thousands of children’s books to life by creating a captivating experience that promotes children’s cognitive development, establishes reading habits, and invites them into a life as readers.

You will help define our frontend stack (React), set standards for component libraries, and build a shared system that makes it easier for product, content, and operations to ship high-quality experiences faster.

This role is central to shaping how Lylli scales, from our reading app to our studio platform - and ensuring we can grow globally without adding complexity.

How will you create impact?

As a Frontend Developer at Lylli, you’ll lead the work to design and build a scalable frontend foundation for our internal tools and enabling teams to create, launch, and operate content and AI-powered features with ease.

• Develop and maintain our internal portal, creating a flexible and scalable framework for tools used across product, content, operations, and partnerships.
• Lead the development of a shared component library, ensuring consistency across tools and standardizing UI patterns using modern frontend best practices.
• Optimize performance and usability, creating internal tools that are fast, intuitive, and accessible for a wide range of users — from editors and illustrators to product managers and engineers.
• Improve developer experience, helping set up build pipelines, testing strategies, and deployment practices for frontend applications.
• Collaborate closely with backend developers, designers, and cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless integration with APIs, internal services, and content workflows.
• Shape the future of our internal tooling ecosystem, enabling Lylli to scale efficiently as we expand into new markets, languages, and reading formats.
  
  

What are your skills and experience?

• 5+ years of experience
• Solid experience building and maintaining large-scale frontend applications, ideally with React and Node.js
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams, participating in code reviews, sharing knowledge, and solving complex product needs through strong frontend architecture.
• A passion for building tools that make other people’s work easier — and for shaping structure in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience building and deploying Java backend services.
• Strong understanding of API integrations (especially JSON-based).
• Interest in coaching junior developers and helping raise the overall technical bar.
  
  

The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in Toronto is $110,000 to $115,000 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.

What You Can Expect From Us

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!
  
  

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

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