9 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$234k - $291k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction, architecture, roadmap, and product decisions for Babylist’s new Search team.
- Build an in-house search system covering indexing, retrieval, serving, ranking, query understanding, and migration from the existing system.
- Define and improve search quality using relevance judgments, behavioral signals, offline evaluation, online evaluation, and A/B tests.
- Unify search across Babylist products, external retailer items, guides, and registries, including ranking items Babylist does not sell.
- Determine how search, recommendations, user context, and registry data should work together.
- Develop conversational search experiences with the Addie AI registry assistant and LLMs.
- Take ambiguous business problems from initial concept through production and remain accountable for customer and system impact.
- Build and own platforms, tooling, AI patterns, evaluation harnesses, and safeguards that other teams adopt.
- Partner with product, design, data, and other business teams while staying close to customers through interviews, session recordings, and support interactions.
- Coach Senior engineers through difficult technical and product decisions.
Requirements
- Meet Babylist’s Staff Engineer bar with enough production experience to develop strong technical opinions and operate independently on ambiguous problems.
- Hands-on experience building and running production search systems, including indexing, retrieval, ranking, and query understanding.
- Experience keeping search services fast, relevant, and reliable as traffic and catalog size grow.
- Experience evaluating search quality through offline and online methods, relevance judgments, and A/B testing.
- Ability to use query data, user behavior, and result-quality judgment to guide product and technical decisions.
- Ability to connect search changes to shopper behavior, conversion, revenue, or other customer outcomes.
- Experience defining, designing, and owning systems from zero through production.
- Experience changing how a team builds with AI in a way that became adopted practice.
- Prior search experience, ideally in e-commerce, is preferred.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical insurance and fully covered dental and vision insurance.
- 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.
- Remote-work stipend.
- Mental-health and wellness support.
- Remote-first role available across the US and Canada, with the company gathering everyone in person twice a year.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowAWSDatadogdbtGitHub ActionsiOSKotlinKubernetesMLflowMySQLReactRubyRuby on RailsSnowflakeSwiftTerraformTypeScript
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About Babylist
Babylist builds a universal baby registry, e-commerce shop, and parenting content platform for expecting and new families. It earns revenue from direct retail sales through the Babylist Shop and referral purchases at third‑party retailers via its registry tools and app. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Emeryville, California, the privately held company serves millions of families and operates its own fulfillment centers and experiential showrooms.