Staff Software Engineer

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About the role

  • Staff Software Engineer owning major product domains and platform capabilities at Babylist, which builds products for families. Setting architecture, guiding AI development, and shipping customer-facing systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own a major product domain, platform area, or cross-team capability
  • Set technical and product direction over a one- to two-year horizon
  • Sequence roadmap bets and make architecture and product decisions
  • Take ambiguous business problems from initial concept through production and own customer outcomes
  • Build and scale platforms or tooling adopted by other teams
  • Make architecture decisions spanning teams and involving costly-to-reverse choices
  • Establish AI development standards, patterns, and evaluations; identify incorrect agent output before release
  • Partner with product, design, and data as a peer to shape priorities
  • Coach Senior engineers through difficult technical and ambiguous decisions
  • Develop systems for customer identity and personalization across registry, shop, and health
  • Design knowledge systems and context strategies for coding agents
  • Build Early Investor, a family finance product, from scratch
  • Participate in user interviews, session-recording reviews, and support ride-alongs

Requirements

  • Production systems experience for enough years to have earned strong opinions
  • Experience changing how a team builds with AI, with the new way adopted
  • Excellent depth in either systems/platforms/reliability/security/AI tooling or customer-focused product engineering
  • Fluency in the complementary area: systems-focused engineers must be fluent in customer/product work, and customer-focused engineers must be fluent in systems/platforms
  • Ability to own ambiguous problems and begin execution without a complete picture
  • Demonstrated impact on customer outcomes or systems used by multiple teams
  • Curiosity and ability to identify and pursue problems through shipping
  • Technical proficiency with relevant stack including Rails, React, TypeScript, MySQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or related technologies
  • Must be able to work remotely across the United States or Canada

Benefits

  • Target annual bonus of 20 percent of base
  • Meaningful equity
  • 401(k) match
  • Company-paid medical
  • Fully covered dental and vision
  • Generous paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
  • 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 work across the US and Canada
  • Company-wide in-person gathering twice a year

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$233,500 - $290,700 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSKubernetesMySQLReactRuby on RailsTerraformTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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