Software Engineer III, Fulfillment and Ops
Published on June 25, 2025
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.
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
- AWS
- Sidekiq
- MySQL
- Redis
- NetSuite
What the Role Is
Babylist is looking for a passionate Backend Software Engineer III to join our Fulfillment & Operations Engineering team, which is central to scaling the systems behind our growing ecommerce and supply chain operations. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with experienced engineers, product managers, and supply chain stakeholders to build and optimize backend systems that power intelligent order routing, accurate delivery estimates, and cost-effective shipping solutions. You’ll tackle technically rich, high-scale challenges that directly impact customer satisfaction and business growth. This is a unique opportunity to make an immediate, measurable impact within a mission-driven company that values thoughtful engineering, modern technology, and team collaboration.
Who You Are
- A high-performing engineer with 4+ years of experience delivering end to end solutions that drive business growth
- You have a track record of showcasing a high level of ownership and a bias for action.
- You thrive in a quickly growing environment and are excited to lead business critical projects to unlock new capabilities
- You have experience testing, monitoring and running a production software system and are focused on continuing to grow your skills
- You are a talented programmer with Ruby on Rails and are excited about further developing your craft and quality of work
- You have a passion for identifying gaps in team processes or execution and love driving impactful improvements
- You are a clear, friendly, and open-minded communicator.
- Past experience in e-commerce is a plus but not required
How You Will Make An Impact
- Work closely with product managers to design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale our fulfillment & operations solutions that will help scale Babylist into a $1B enterprise and beyond
- 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
- Work closely with our Product team to create new features in our supply chain including enhancements to order routing, inventory distribution, inbound logistics, outbound delivery and returns.
- Improve and help maintain existing systems. Friction in the development process slows us down and has a large opportunity cost. We see value in taking time to create maintainable systems and remove hurdles from the development process
- Work 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
- You are an emerging leader that is passionate about further growing your skills and the capabilities of the engineers around you
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 and a generous paid parental leave policy.
- 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 CAD$135,250.00 - $168,282.00
In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.
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