Software Engineer III, Fulfillment and Operations

Who We Are

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.To learn 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 passionate Backend Software Engineer III to join our Fulfillment & Operations Engineering team, which is central to scaling the systems behind our growing ecommerce and supply chain operations. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with experienced engineers, product managers, and supply chain stakeholders to build and optimize backend systems that power intelligent order routing, accurate delivery estimates, and cost-effective shipping solutions. You’ll tackle technically rich, high-scale challenges that directly impact customer satisfaction and business growth. This is a unique opportunity to make an immediate, measurable impact within a mission-driven company that values thoughtful engineering, modern technology, and team collaboration.

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 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 e-commerce is a plus but not required

How You Will Make An Impact

• Work closely with product managers to design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale our fulfillment & operations solutions that will help scale Babylist into a $1B enterprise and beyond
• 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
• Work closely with our Product team to create new features in our supply chain including enhancements to order routing, inventory distribution, inbound logistics, outbound delivery and returns.
• 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
• Work 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
• You are an emerging leader that is passionate about further growing your skills and the capabilities of the engineers around you

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
• AI plays a meaningful role in how we work, create, and scale—intentionally 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 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 CAD$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.

Important Notices

Interview Process & Data Use

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