Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Babylist is a company that builds solutions for families navigating parenthood. As a Senior Engineer, you will take ownership of complex problems, working collaboratively to define what to build and ensuring successful outcomes through experimentation and evidence-based decision making.
Responsibilities
- Frame the problem with your PM as a peer, run the experiment and bring customer evidence into what gets built
- Harden a critical path, kill a class of incidents or design the abstraction your team builds on
- Be the reviewer people want on the risky changes
- Manage up with crisp choices: raise the risks early and protect the right tradeoffs
- Share what you're learning about AI openly, so the whole team gets sharper
- Deciding what the registry recommends to each family, from the ranking to the model behind it, and proving in a live experiment that it actually helps
- Building the evals system that catches our AI support agent making things up before a customer does
- Making a child's info one source of truth instead of five disconnected flows, so parents set it up once and new products like Early Investor build on it
Skills
- Experience shipping production systems for years
- Ability to pick up ambiguous problems and start moving before receiving the full picture
- Generalist skills with a range of experience across backend services, frontend bugs, and data pipelines
- Ability to dig in and learn unfamiliar parts of the stack quickly
- Strong judgment and decision-making skills
- Experience with Rails, Packwerk, React, TypeScript, Sidekiq
- Experience with iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin)
- Experience with MySQL, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Weaviate, WarpStream, Hex, Sigma
- Experience with machine learning technologies such as deep learning, matrix factorization, retrieval & ranking, AWS SageMaker, MLflow
- Experience with AI & dev tooling including Claude Code, Devin, Linear, CodeRabbit, Warden, LangChain, Bedrock AgentCore, Maxim
- Experience with infrastructure and operations tools such as AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Datadog, incident.io, LaunchDarkly
- Experience with key integrations like Shopify (payments) and Iterable (CRM)
Benefits
- Company-paid medical and fully covered dental and vision
- A 401(k) match
- Generous paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, plus a gradual return-to-work program
- Winter Wonder Week, a paid company-wide week off at the end of the year
- A remote-work stipend
- Mental-health and wellness support
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