5 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$187k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership for engineering processes, tooling, systems, and software architecture.
- Maintain and improve existing systems while developing AI-first approaches to increase quality and delivery speed.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and data teams to design, implement, and deploy business-supporting systems.
- Make architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
- Lead business-critical projects and help solve problems across revenue, customer-facing, and infrastructure systems.
- Mentor engineers through design and architecture planning, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience delivering end-to-end software solutions.
- Experience with React and Ruby on Rails, or comparable experience with Python/Django or JavaScript/Node.js and a willingness to learn Ruby on Rails.
- Experience testing, monitoring, and operating production software systems.
- Ability to lead business-critical projects, make architectural decisions, and drive process or execution improvements.
- Experience using AI coding tools such as Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code, with judgment to evaluate and correct generated code.
- Experience in e-commerce, consumer growth marketing, adtech, or marketplace systems is preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement across the U.S. and Canada with twice-yearly team gatherings.
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts.
- Generous paid parental leave and paid time off.
- Remote work stipend for office setup.
- Wellness, parenting, childcare, and financial-planning perks.
- Equity and bonus opportunities are available.
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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.