9 days ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction and multi-year roadmap for Babylist Search.
- Design and lead the in-house search architecture for indexing, retrieval, serving, and migration.
- Improve search quality through query understanding, ranking, behavioral signals, relevance judgments, and A/B testing.
- Unify search across Babylist products, guides, registries, and items from other retailers.
- Determine how search, recommendations, user context, and registry data work together.
- Partner with the Addie team to build conversational and LLM-supported search experiences.
- Take ambiguous business problems from initial concept through production and own their customer impact.
- Build and maintain platforms, tooling, AI patterns, and evaluation systems adopted by other teams.
- Partner with product, design, and data and coach senior engineers.
Requirements
- Production experience building and operating 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 tests.
- Strong focus on user behavior, result quality, conversion, revenue, and measurable customer outcomes.
- Ability to define ambiguous problems, design systems from scratch, and own them end to end.
- Experience changing how a team builds with AI and making the new approach stick.
- Prior search experience, ideally in e-commerce.
- Staff-level experience setting technical direction, making product and architectural decisions, and coaching senior engineers.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical insurance and fully covered dental and vision.
- 401(k) match and RRSP match.
- Generous paid parental leave and a gradual return-to-work program.
- Paid Winter Wonder Week company-wide break at the end of the year.
- Remote-work stipend and mental-health and wellness support.
- Remote-first work across the US and Canada, with in-person company gatherings twice a year.
- Meaningful equity and a target annual bonus of 20 percent of base salary.
- Remote-first hiring process with three rounds usually completed within two to three weeks.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowAWSDatadogdbtGitHub ActionsKotlinKubernetesMLflowMySQLReactRuby 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.