Staff Software Engineer, Health

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.

Babylist is remote-first with team members across the U.S. and Canada who move fast, think smart, and use AI as part of how they work every day — not as an experiment, as an expectation. We come together twice a year to build the relationships behind the work, and we hire people who are genuinely excited about what's possible and prove it through how they show up.

• Ruby on Rails
• React
• AWS
• Sidekiq
• MySQL
• Redis
• Native iOS and Android

Babylist is looking for a passionate Fullstack Staff Software Engineer to join our Babylist Health team. Launched in October 2022, Babylist Health provides a more user-friendly and transparent way for people to purchase a breast pump through insurance with incredible opportunities to broaden offerings for pregnancy, child, and new parent health in the future. This distributed team is responsible for scaling the technical systems and creating a user-friendly storefront that will support Babylist Health’s goals. You will also work on new strategic initiatives to expand the health offerings as we grow this business. As part of the team, you will lead business critical projects and make important decisions about how our systems grow and scale.

• A high-performing engineer with 10+ years of experience and a proven track record of delivering end-to-end solutions that drive business growth
• You are a strong programmer with modern web stacks such as React + Rails, Python/Django, or Node/Express. We use Rails, and you should be excited to pick up a new one if it's not already in your repertoire
• You have a proven track record of delivering high-quality, impactful projects
• Experience in e-commerce or consumer applications is a plus but not required
• Able to work effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, with a collaborative approach to problem-solving
• An excellent systems thinker, architecting and delivering large projects independently and with a team
• A mentor and coach who fosters a culture of excellence and continuous improvement
• Results-oriented, with a keen ability to prioritize tasks that deliver the most business impact
• You're genuinely excited about what AI can do - not just as a concept, but as something you want to get your hands on. At Babylist, every team uses AI daily, and we're looking for people who lean in.

• Collaborate closely with our Product team to lead creation of new features in health, including product education and comparison tools, automating user support flows, and expanding our offerings of goods and services via health insurance
• Architect and lead execution of team cycle projects
• Mentor other team members through design and architecture planning, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions
• Demonstrate strong systems thinking and curiosity, identifying opportunities to improve our product, technical systems, or ways of working
• Build systems to scale Babylist Health to $200M in revenue and beyond over the next 3 years
• Become a subject matter expert within our health services, defining how these services and features will grow and scale

• We work with focus and intention, then step away to recharge
• We believe in exceptional management and invest in tools and opportunities to connect with colleagues
• We build products that positively impact millions of people's lives
• AI tools are as natural to how we work as your IDE or version control — we're not exploring this, we're living it.

• Competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
• We're committed to career progression and performance-based advancement

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