Senior Software Engineer

Babylist

6h • Remote

About The Position

Babylist is hiring Senior Software Engineers to join our engineering organization. You'll work on systems that power a $1B+ GMV marketplace, serving over 9 million families annually. Our engineering teams build everything from advertising platforms and commerce tools to registry systems and health products. During the interview process, you'll learn about different teams and we'll identify the best fit based on your skills and interests. The work spans: Revenue & Growth: Advertising partnerships, commerce features, lifecycle marketing, and growth experiments. Product & Experience: Registry tools, shopping flows, health product experience, and customer-facing features. Platform & Infrastructure: Developer tools, core services, monitoring, and foundational systems. We’re looking for builders — engineers who are excited about solving hard problems, moving fast, and helping invent what AI-first software development looks like at Babylist.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience delivering end-to-end solutions that drive business growth
• Experience testing, monitoring, and running production software systems
• Talented programmer with React and Ruby on Rails experience (or similar tech stack experience like Python/Django or Javascript/Node.js with strong desire to learn Ruby on Rails)
• Actively use AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) as part of your daily workflow
• Bring the architectural judgment to know when to trust AI-generated code and when to course-correct
• Comfortable with a higher experimentation rate — including bets that don’t pan out
• Pay close attention to detail

Nice To Haves

• Thrive in a quickly growing environment and are excited to lead business-critical projects to unlock new capabilities
• Focused on continuing to grow your skills
• Excited about further developing your craft and quality of work
• Passion for identifying gaps in team processes or execution and love driving impactful improvements
• Adaptable and open to working on different types of problems, from revenue systems to customer-facing features to infrastructure
• Past experience in e-commerce, consumer growth marketing, adtech, or marketplace systems is a plus but not required

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership around process, tooling, systems, and software architecture.
• Improve and help maintain existing systems — and lead the team in adopting AI-first approaches to do it faster.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and data teams to design, implement, and deploy systems that support our growing business.
• Make architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Work in a close, supportive team solving real-world problems and making decisions.
• Mentor other team members through design and architecture planning, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with equity and bonus opportunities
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
• Generous paid parental leave and PTO
• Remote work stipend to set up your office
• Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed