Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Babylist's Media and Marketing Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer to lead critical initiatives for site monetization and advertising. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to execute key initiatives, improve existing systems, and provide thought leadership. This role requires 6+ years of experience delivering end-to-end solutions, proficiency in React and Ruby on Rails, and a passion for driving impactful improvements. You will work closely with product managers and mentor other team members. Babylist offers competitive pay, benefits including company-paid health insurance, parental leave, and a 401k match, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• A high-performing engineer with 6+ years of experience delivering end to end solutions that drive business growth
• You thrive in a quickly growing environment and are excited to lead business critical projects to unlock new capabilities
• You have experience testing, monitoring and running a production software system and are focused on continuing to grow your skills
• You are a talented programmer with React and Ruby on Rails experience and are excited about further developing your craft and quality of work
• You have a passion for identifying gaps in team processes or execution and love driving impactful improvements

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership around process, tooling, systems, and software architecture
• Improve and help maintain existing systems
• Work closely with product managers to design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale our growing media business
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Past experience in e-commerce, consumer growth marketing, or adtech is a plus but not required

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