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
Our team spans multiple time zones, but real connection drives great work. We embrace remote flexibility, but twice a year, we come together—once as a company, once by department. These offsites aren’t just meetings; they’re key moments to collaborate, build trust, and strengthen the relationships that make us successful. Showing up every day matters.
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 Registry engineering team. As part of the Registry team. This team is responsible for the end-to-end experience of building and sharing your Babylist registry; used and loved by millions of parents and gift givers. Product areas include catalog search, structured registry building, product recommendations, guides, recommendations, and thank you notes. You’ll work closely with Product, Design, and other teams to execute these key initiatives.
Who You Are
- A high-performing engineer with 6+ years experience delivering end to end solutions that drive business growth.
- An exceptional problem solver.
- Skilled and experienced in Ruby on Rails and React.
- Able to deliver elegant, effective software solutions in a timely manner.
- A clear, friendly, and open-minded communicator.
- Passionate about making measurable improvements for our customers, and using data to drive growth.
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 owners to design, implement and deploy systems to support and scale user shopping experiences, research and recommendation, personalizing and extending the Registry experience
- 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
- Identifying opportunities for new product initiatives founded on your knowledge of the technical landscape and web platform capabilities
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 $158,500.00 - $197,125.00
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.
SMS Consent: As part of our hiring process, Babylist may offer the option to receive text message updates about your application and interview scheduling. You will have the opportunity to opt in or out of SMS communications later in the application process. Choosing not to receive SMS messages will not affect your application status, and communication will continue via email or phone. Message and Data Rates may apply. You can STOP messaging by sending STOP and get more help by sending HELP. To view our Privacy Policy, please visit https://www.babylist.com/privacy.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Our company takes the security and privacy of job applicants very seriously. We will never ask for payment, bank details, or personal financial information as part of the application process. All of our legitimate job postings can be found on our official career site. Please be cautious of job offers that come from non-company email addresses (@babylist.com), instant messaging platforms or unsolicited calls.
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