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Babylist is the leading registry, e-commerce, and content platform for growing families. More than 9 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, trusted guidance, and expert product recommendations for new parents and the people who love them. What began as a universal registry has grown into a full ecosystem for new parents, including the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, and a flagship showroom in Los Angeles. Hundreds of brands in baby and beyond partner with Babylist to engage meaningfully with families during one of life's most important transitions. With over $1 billion in annual GMV, and more than $500 million in 2024 revenue, Babylist is reshaping the $320 billion baby product industry. We're helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step. As we build the generational brand in baby, our mission remains simple: to connect growing families with everything they need to thrive.To learn more, visit www.babylist.com. Who We Are

Babylist is the leading registry, e-commerce, and content platform for growing families. More than 9 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, trusted guidance, and expert product recommendations for new parents and the people who love them. What began as a universal registry has grown into a full ecosystem for new parents, including the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, and a flagship showroom in Los Angeles. Hundreds of brands in baby and beyond partner with Babylist to engage meaningfully with families during one of life's most important transitions. With over $1 billion in annual GMV, and more than $500 million in 2024 revenue, Babylist is reshaping the $320 billion baby product industry. We're helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step. As we build the generational brand in baby, our mission remains simple: to connect growing families with everything they need to thrive.To learn 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 React AWS Sidekiq MySQL Redis

What the Role Is

Babylist is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Media and Marketing Engineering team. This person will lead the most critical initiatives for Babylist's site monetization and advertising initiatives on our path to becoming the specialty retailer in baby commerce. You'll work with expert technical leads and software engineers to work on programs in advertising partnerships and customer life cycle. This person will collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data, and other stakeholders in the Media/Ads business to execute these key initiatives.

Who You Are

A high-performing engineer with 6+ 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 experience testing, monitoring and running a production software system and are focused on continuing to grow your skills You are a talented programmer with React and Ruby on Rails experience 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 Past experience in e-commerce, consumer growth marketing, or adtech is a plus but not required

How You Will Make An Impact

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 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 Work closely with product managers to design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale our growing media business 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

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 AI plays a meaningful role in how we work, create, and scale—intentionally embedded in our tools, systems, and decision-making to support innovation and real impact 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, 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

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 $140,477.00 - $210,612.00

In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.

Important Notices

Interview Process & Data Use

To support a fair and consistent hiring process, Babylist uses AI to transcribe all interviews. Transcripts are confidential and used solely for evaluation purposes, in accordance with data privacy laws such as CCPA and GDPR. By applying, you acknowledge and consent to this use.

Official Communication

All communication regarding your application will come only from the Babylist Talent Team via an @babylist.com email address. We will never request payment, bank information, or personal financial details. Be cautious of fraudulent outreach via non-company email addresses, messaging platforms (e.g., WhatsApp, Telegram), or unsolicited phone calls. To verify legitimate opportunities, visit our careers page.

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