Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Babylist is a leading platform for expecting and new families, and they are hiring Staff Software Engineers to build a $1B+ GMV marketplace. This role involves cross-team ownership, AI-native development, and system design to create impactful products for millions of families.
Responsibilities
- Cross-Team Ownership — take a fuzzy business need through design, build, and production across pod boundaries, with minimal handoffs and maximum accountability
- AI-Native Development — use AI tools as genuine force multipliers and set the standard, across pods, for what high-quality AI-assisted engineering actually looks like
- System Design — make architectural calls that span services and teams, balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability, and bring people along so the decisions stick
- Cross-Functional Partnership — work directly with product, design, and data as a collaborator with opinions, not an executor with a ticket queue
- Mentorship — make the engineers around you meaningfully better, including senior engineers, through code review, design feedback, and direct investment in how they think through problems
- Process and Craft — when the org's ways of working have gaps, you fix them, not just flag them
Skills
- 10+ years building and shipping production systems at scale
- Experience owning outcomes across teams, not just your slice of them
- Experience setting the bar on a team for how AI gets used in real engineering work
- Judgment to know when to trust AI output and when to throw it out
- Ability to help engineers build a calibrated view of AI output
- Ability to move on hard, ambiguous problems without waiting for perfect information
- Deep backend fundamentals and system-design range
- Experience shipping production Rails, or Python/Django or Node.js and readiness to ramp up on Rails
- Strong opinions about product and architecture decisions
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely
- Ability to own ambiguous, cross-team problems from start to finish
- Natural inclination to reach for AI in work
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
- Generous paid parental leave and PTO
- Winter Wonder Week: the whole company takes a paid week off at the end of the year, whether or not you celebrate anything, so everyone's out at once and comes back refreshed
- Remote work stipend to set up your office
- Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning
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