Staff Software Engineer
About The Position
As a Staff Engineer at Babylist, you own some of our hardest domains and decide where they go. Millions of families depend on what we build. Agents write most of the code now. So the hard part is yours: what to build, how it should work and whether what shipped was right. You're still in the code for the genuinely hard problems. Agents handle the volume. You spend your time on the parts that need a person. We're building well beyond the registry now: the financial side of raising a kid, maternal health made simpler and more human, the education new parents are looking for and the community around them. The hard problems run across all of it, plus the platform underneath and the AI we already ship to families. You'll own a big piece of the product, but you won't be boxed into it. The roadmap is open. You have a say in which bets we make, and you pick what you take on next.
Requirements
- Shipped production systems for enough years to have earned strong opinions, and you hold them loosely.
- Can pick up an ambiguous problem and start moving before anyone hands you the full picture.
- Have already changed how a team builds with AI, and the new way stuck.
- Measure yourself by impact: a customer outcome, or a system a dozen teams come to depend on.
- Curious: spot problems before they're filed and push your own ideas until they ship.
- Excellent at one of the following and fluent in the other: pointing depth at systems everyone runs on (platforms, reliability, security, AI harnesses) or pointing depth at the customer (framing problems with PMs, owning journeys end-to-end, deciding what to build and learning if it worked).
Responsibilities
- Take a fuzzy business problem from the first sketch through to production, and stay on the hook for whether it actually helped customers.
- Build the platform or tooling other teams adopt by choice, and own it as it scales.
- Make the architecture calls that span teams and the ones that are expensive to reverse.
- Set the standard for how your domain builds with AI. Decide what good looks like, build the patterns and evals that get agents there and catch the output that's confidently wrong before it ships.
- Partner with product, design and data as a peer, shaping what's worth building from the start.
- Coach Senior engineers through the hard calls, the ambiguous ones as much as the technical ones.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical
- Fully covered dental
- Fully covered vision
- RRSP match
- Generous paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- Gradual return-to-work program
- Winter Wonder Week, a paid company-wide week off at the end of the year
- Remote-work stipend
- Mental-health and wellness support
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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