Staff Software Engineer

Babylist

5d • Remote

About The Position

Babylist is hiring Staff Software Engineers to join an 85-person engineering org building a $1B+ GMV marketplace for new and expecting families. The systems you'll shape run at real scale — registry, commerce, health, advertising, and the platform underneath all of it, touching millions of people every year. As a Staff Engineer you set technical direction that reaches across pods, not just inside one. We'll point you at the problems where your skills land best, and your influence won't stop at a single pod's edge. The work spans revenue and growth, consumer product and registry experience, and platform and infrastructure.

Requirements

• 10+ years building and shipping production systems at scale — you own outcomes across teams, not just your slice of them
• Have already set the bar on a team for how AI gets used in real engineering work — not just used the tools yourself, but shaped how others do
• Have the judgment to know when to trust AI output and when to throw it out, and you help the engineers around you build that same calibrated view
• Move on hard, ambiguous problems without waiting for perfect information — you make the call, document your reasoning, and pull in the right people at the right moment
• Deep backend fundamentals and system-design range — you've shipped production Rails, or you've shipped Python/Django or Node.js and you're ready to ramp up on Rails as fast as possible
• Strong opinions about product and architecture decisions — you work with product and design as a peer, push back when the technical tradeoffs are being underweighted, and you're who others look to when the call is hard
• Communicate clearly and concisely — you can take a complex technical bet and make it land with engineers and execs alike
• If your best work happens inside one well-scoped team with clear requirements, this will be a stretch — Staff here own ambiguous, cross-team problems from start to finish
• Naturally reach for AI in your work — at Babylist, every team uses AI daily. You're already using it to move faster and improve your output, and you stay curious about what's coming next

Responsibilities

• Take a fuzzy business need through design, build, and production across pod boundaries, with minimal handoffs and maximum accountability
• Use AI tools as genuine force multipliers and set the standard, across pods, for what high-quality AI-assisted engineering actually looks like
• Make architectural calls that span services and teams, balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability, and bring people along so the decisions stick
• Work directly with product, design, and data as a collaborator with opinions, not an executor with a ticket queue
• Make the engineers around you meaningfully better, including senior engineers, through code review, design feedback, and direct investment in how they think through problems
• When the org's ways of working have gaps, you fix them, not just flag them

Benefits

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
• Generous paid parental leave and PTO
• Winter Wonder Week: the whole company takes a paid week off at the end of the year, whether or not you celebrate anything, so everyone's out at once and comes back refreshed
• 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