Babylist is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join their Commerce team to improve the global shopping experience for users, including the registry, shop, cart, and checkout functionalities, and to own the infrastructure supporting direct product purchases.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in full-stack software development
- Proficient in Ruby on Rails and React
- Proven experience with AI developer tooling
- Proven experience with system design and monolithic architecture
- React
- Ruby on Rails
- AWS
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale our registry and Shop experiences
- Prioritize and lead efforts to improve our tooling, systems, and software architecture
- Collaborate with engineering peers to make platform and organizational level improvements
- Improve and help maintain existing systems
- Improve test coverage and delete thousands of lines of code
- Provide technical leadership within the Commerce team, setting high standards for technical excellence
- Offer guidance on best practices, and actively contributing to technical planning and implementation
Other
- Work closely with product owners
- Collaborate with your staff level peers across our engineering org
- Communicate technical ideas at a detailed level and translate complex non-technical stakeholder needs into precise technical requirements
- Help others; identify growth and ownership opportunities for fellow engineers, and provide constructive feedback directly
- Lean heavily into collaboration with Product, Design, and other non-technical counterparts
- Elevate the capabilities of the engineers around you
- Identify opportunities for new product initiatives founded in your knowledge of the technical landscape and web platform capabilities
