Software Engineer III, Financial Systems

Who We Are

Babylist is the trusted platform for millions of growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected, and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop, and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectful, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn about Babylist's registry options, editorial content, and more, visit www.babylist.com

Our Ways of Working

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

Our Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• AWS
• Sidekiq
• MySQL
• Redis
• NetSuite

What the Role Is

Babylist is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our new Babylist Financial Systems team. This person will work on critical initiatives for Babylist such as Order to Cash, Revenue Recognition and Procure to Pay. The role is also central to the integrations between our proprietary app and our Enterprise software applications that serve our finance, accounting, inventory planning, and warehouse ops teams. You'll work with expert technical leads, software engineers, product managers, and the business teams to mature our current processes and systems.

Who You Are

• A high-performing engineer with 4+ years of experience delivering end to end solutions that drive business growth
• You have a track record of showcasing a high level of ownership and a bias for action
• 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 Ruby on Rails or backend Javascript 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
• You are a clear, friendly, and open-minded communicator
• Past experience in NetSuite or e-commerce is a plus but not required

How You Will Make An Impact

• Work closely with product owners to design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale our financial systems crafting solutions that will help scale Babylist into a billion dollar enterprise
• Provide thought leadership around process, tooling, systems, and software architecture. We benefit by more knowledge and learning how others solve problems. You will feel excited to bring in new ways of solving 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
• Shaping the direction and culture of this new team

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

• 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
• 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 and a generous paid parental leave policy.
• 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 $135,250.00 - $168,282.00

In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance,flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.

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