2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the direction, roadmap, technical decisions, and outcomes for a product surface, platform area, or cross-team capability.
- Take ambiguous business problems from initial concept through production and evaluate whether the work helped customers.
- Build and scale platforms or tooling that other teams adopt, and make architecture decisions spanning multiple teams.
- Define AI engineering standards, patterns, context, evaluation harnesses, and safeguards against incorrect agent output.
- Partner with product, design, data, and customers to shape what to build and learn whether it worked.
- Coach Senior engineers through complex technical and product decisions.
Requirements
- Substantial experience shipping production systems and operating with strong technical judgment in ambiguous environments.
- Demonstrated ability to change how a team builds with AI and make the new approach stick.
- Deep strength in either shared systems such as platforms, reliability, security, and AI development harnesses, or customer-facing product ownership, with fluency in the other area.
- Ability to own outcomes across teams, make difficult-to-reverse architecture decisions, partner with product, design, and data, and coach Senior engineers.
- Strong impact orientation, curiosity, and ability to identify and advance problems without waiting for them to be formally assigned.
Benefits
- Remote-first work across the US and Canada with company-wide gatherings twice a year
- Company-paid medical and fully covered dental and vision
- RRSP match
- Paid parental leave and gradual return-to-work program
- Paid Winter Wonder Week at the end of the year
- Remote-work stipend
- Mental-health and wellness support
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.