Senior Software Engineer, MediaNewUnited States

Senior Software Engineer, Media

Babylist is the leading registry, e-commerce, and content platform for growing families. More than 9 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, trusted guidance, and expert product recommendations for new parents and the people who love them. What began as a universal registry has grown into a full ecosystem for new parents, including the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, and a flagship showroom in Los Angeles. Hundreds of brands in baby and beyond partner with Babylist to engage meaningfully with families during one of life's most important transitions. With over $1 billion in annual GMV, and more than $500 million in 2024 revenue, Babylist is reshaping the $320 billion baby product industry. We're helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step. As we build the generational brand in baby, our mission remains simple : to connect growing families with everything they need to thrive.

Babylist thrives as a remote-first company, with HQ team members located across the U.S. and Canada. We meet in person twice a yearonce as a company and once by department to strengthen the relationships that power our work. We show up consistently, stay purpose-driven, and achieve resultstogether, from anywhere.

Babylist uses Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, Sidekiq, MySQL, and Redis.

Babylist is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Media and Marketing Engineering team. This person will lead the most critical initiatives for Babylist's site monetization and advertising initiatives on our path to becoming the specialty retailer in baby commerce. You'll work with expert technical leads and software engineers to work on programs in advertising partnerships and customer life cycle. This person will collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data, and other stakeholders in the Media / Ads business to execute these key initiatives.

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

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

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

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 scaleintentionally 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

Babylist takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. The estimated pay range for this role is $140,477.00 - $210,612.00

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.

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