Babylist is looking to hire Software Engineer III's to work on systems that power a $1B+ GMV marketplace, serving over 700k families and over 10 million users annually. The role involves building and improving systems across revenue, product, and platform to drive business growth and enhance user experience.
Requirements
- React and Ruby on Rails experience (or similar tech stack experience like Python/Django or Javascript/Node.js with strong desire to learn Ruby on Rails)
- experience testing, monitoring, and running production software systems
- Ruby on Rails
- AWS
- Sidekiq
- MySQL
- Redis
Responsibilities
- Build the systems that drive Babylist's business forward.
- Design and build registry systems that help expecting parents organize their needs, shopping flows that make discovery delightful, health product experiences that support new parents, and customer-facing features used by over 700k + families annually.
- Develop developer tools that make your teammates more productive, core services that ensure reliability at scale, monitoring systems that keep us ahead of issues, and foundational systems that enable the company to move faster.
- Provide leadership around process, tooling, systems, and software architecture.
- Improve and help maintain existing systems.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and data teams to design, implement, and deploy systems that support our growing business
- Make architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
Other
- 4+ 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 a passion for identifying gaps in team processes or execution and love driving impactful improvements
- You're adaptable and open to working on different types of problems, from revenue systems to customer-facing features to infrastructure
- Past experience in e-commerce, consumer growth marketing, adtech, or marketplace systems is a plus but not required
