Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Babylist's Registry engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the end-to-end experience of building and sharing users’ Babylist registry, a product used by millions. Work closely with Product and Design teams to design and build new features. Leverage your expertise in Ruby on Rails and React to deliver elegant software solutions. Improve existing systems, mentor team members, and identify opportunities for new product initiatives. Babylist offers a remote-first work environment, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• A high-performing engineer with 6+ years experience delivering end to end solutions that drive business growth
• An exceptional problem solver
• Skilled and experienced in Ruby on Rails and React
• Able to deliver elegant, effective software solutions in a timely manner
• A clear, friendly, and open-minded communicator
• Passionate about making measurable improvements for our customers, and using data to drive growth
• You are experienced in incorporating AI tools into daily software development practices, including code generation, automated testing, and rapid prototyping to enhance development velocity and code quality

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership around process, tooling, systems, and software architecture
• Improve and help maintain existing systems
• Work closely with product owners to design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale user shopping experiences, research and recommendation, personalizing and extending the Registry experience
• Working in a close, supportive team solving real-world problems and making decisions
• Mentoring other team members through design and architecture planning, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions
• Identifying opportunities for new product initiatives founded on your knowledge of the technical landscape and web platform capabilities

Benefits

• We invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
• AI plays a meaningful role in how we work, create, and scale—intentionally embedded in our tools, systems, and decision-making to support innovation and real impact
• We believe in exceptional management
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning
• In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies