About the Role
Title: Software Engineer III, Shop
Location: United States
Job Description:
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
We have team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. This means we put in extra effort to make sure we connect and collaborate in ways that make sense for us. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees.
We know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build those relationships with team members in other cities, we meet with coworkers in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These offsites are expected of employees and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually.
Our Tech Stack
- Ruby on Rails
- AWS
- Sidekiq
- MySQL
- Redis
- React
- Native iOS and Android
What the Role Is
Babylist is looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join our Babylist Shop team. This person will work on the most critical initiatives for Babylist on our path to becoming the specialty retailer in baby commerce. You’ll work with expert technical leads and software engineers to make Babylist the early years shopping destination for our users improving the user experience for search, discoverability, cart and check out. This person will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other teams 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 or consumer applications is a plus but not required
How You Will Make An Impact
- Work closely with product owners to design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale our shop experiences, including enhancing search and discovery, PLP, PDP, cart and checkout.
- 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. We see value in taking time to create maintainable systems and remove hurdles from the development process
- 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