Senior Software Engineer, Registry

_hackajob is collaborating with Babylist to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

_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
• React
• AWS
• Sidekiq
• MySQL
• Redis

What the Role Is

Babylist is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Registry engineering team. This team is responsible for the end-to-end experience of building and sharing users’ Babylist registry, a product used and loved by millions of parents and gift givers. Product areas include product recommendations, baby shower kits, third party order tracking, and other registry management tools. You’ll work closely with Product, Design and other stakeholders to design and build new features and experiences for our registrants.

Who You Are

• A high-performing engineer with 6+ years experience delivering end to end solutions that drive business growth.
• An exceptional problem solver.
• Skilled and experienced in Ruby on Rails and React.
• Able to deliver elegant, effective software solutions in a timely manner.
• A clear, friendly, and open-minded communicator.
• Passionate about making measurable improvements for our customers, and using data to drive growth.
• You are experienced in incorporating AI tools into daily software development practices, including code generation, automated testing, and rapid prototyping to enhance development velocity and code quality.

How You Will Make An Impact

• 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. You relish the opportunity to improve test coverage and delete thousands of lines of code
• Work closely with product owners to design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale user shopping experiences, research and recommendation, personalizing and extending the Registry experience
• 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
• Identifying opportunities for new product initiatives founded on your knowledge of the technical landscape and web platform capabilities

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, 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.