Senior Software Engineer, Registry

Who We Are

Babylist is the leading vertical marketplace and commerce destination for baby, driving purchase decisions for more than 8 million people each year. Utilizing robust proprietary data, patented technology, and unbiased editorial guidance, Babylist recommends expert-tested products to those starting their parenting journey so loved ones can offer their support. Babylist registries connect new parents and their community of family and friends who help plan, prepare, and shop for a child's arrival. Babylist is the generational brand in baby, leading the $67 billion baby products market as the trusted go-to solution for growing families. To learn about Babylist’s registry options, editorial content, and more, visit www.babylist.com.

Our Ways of Working

We’re a remote-first company with team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees so people can get the work done in the way that suits them best. With rare exception, our employees generally work 9-5 in their home time zone.

We also know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build community and collaboration, we gather in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These offsites are expected of employees and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually.

Our Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• AWS
• Sidekiq
• MySQL
• Redis
• React
• Native iOS and Android

What the Role Is

Babylist is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Registry team. This team is responsible for the end-to-end experience of building and sharing your Babylist registry; used and loved by millions of parents and gift givers. Product areas include catalog search, structured registry building, product recommendations, guides, recommendations, and thank you notes.

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer you will work with product managers and designers within our Shape Up process to scope, shape, and deliver improvements and new functionality to our registry experience.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience in full-stack software development
• An exceptional problem solver
• Very comfortable with JavaScript, React and Ruby / Python (or similar)
• Able to deliver elegant, effective software solutions in a timely manner
• A clear, friendly, and open-minded communicator
• Passionate about developing features from concept to deployment
• Successful in an agile work environment and able to break down large pieces of work to deliver value incrementally

What You'll Do

• Work closely with product owners to design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale our registry experiences.
• Provide thought leadership around process, tooling, systems, and software architecture. We benefit by more knowledge and learning how others solve problems.
• Improve and help maintain existing systems. Friction in the development process slows us down and has a large opportunity cost. We see value in taking time to create maintainable systems and remove hurdles from the development process.
• 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.
• Maintaining older systems and replacing them safely.
• Identifying opportunities for product improvements founded in your technical knowledge of our software systems.

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

• We are a remote first company and invest in 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 
• We believe in exceptional management 
• We are committed to providing an actively antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
• 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 

If your experience is close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying. Experience comes in many forms – skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We know that diversity makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking, which is why we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage everyone to apply.

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