Senior Software Engineer, Health
Published on March 11, 2024
At Babylist, we help expecting parents get exactly what they need for the arrival of their new baby. Founded in 2011, Babylist is a popular baby gift registry in the US. We serve millions of families every year to help them make the journey to parenthood less overwhelming and more fun. Families can add any item from any store to their registry, including products Babylist directly sells, alongside meaningful gifts like babysitting and meals, which they can’t buy in stores. The baby retail market is underserved and Babylist is well positioned to be the trusted brand that helps new families through this monumental life stage. In the US alone, 4 million babies are born every year and we have over 1.5 million new families signing up to create a baby registry with us annually. This year, 10M loved ones will give the perfect gift using Babylist.
- Ruby on Rails
- AWS
- Sidekiq
- MySQL
- Redis
- React
- 6+ years of experience in full-stack software development
- Have proven experience with distributed system design
- Very comfortable with JavaScript, React, and Ruby / Python (or similar)
- Able to deliver elegant, effective software solutions on time
- A clear, friendly, and open-minded communicator
- Passionate about solving techno-social systems problems
- Work closely with product owners to design, implement, and deploy systems to support and scale our registry experiences
- Prioritize and lead efforts to improve our tooling, systems, and software architecture. You should feel energized by collaborating with your engineering peers to make platform and organizational-level improvements
- 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
- 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
- Maintaining older systems and replacing them safely
- Identifying opportunities for new product initiatives founded on your knowledge of the technical landscape and web platform capabilities
- 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 are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
- 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