Babylist

Staff Software Engineer

Canada · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$299k-$373kDetected 5 days ago

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About the role

You're still in the code for the genuinely hard problems.
You spend your time on the parts that need a person.
You have a say in which bets we make, and you pick what you take on next.

Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer at Babylist, you own some of our hardest domains and decide where they go.
Millions of families depend on what we build.
what to build, how it should work and whether what shipped was right.
We don't have architects who've stopped building.
Your influence shows up in the systems and the work other teams choose to build on.
It comes from what you build.
Build the platform or tooling other teams adopt by choice, and own it as it scales.
Set the standard for how your domain builds with AI. Decide what good looks like, build the patterns and evals that get agents there and catch the output that's confidently wrong before it ships.
Partner with product, design and data as a peer, shaping what's worth building from the start.
you spot problems before they're filed and push your own ideas until they ship.

Requirements

You can pick up an ambiguous problem and start moving before anyone hands you the full picture.

Compensation

For a Canada-based Staff Engineer, the starting base salary range is $299,300 to $372,600 CAD, plus a target annual bonus of 20 percent of base.
That's total target cash of roughly $359,160 to $447,120 CAD.
Where you start in that range depends on your experience, and your pay grows from there with performance and scope.

Benefits

Company-paid medical and fully covered dental and vision
Generous paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, plus a gradual return-to-work program
Mental-health and wellness support
the financial side of raising a kid, maternal health made simpler and more human, the education new parents are looking for and the community around them.
A remote-work stipend

Company info

one Rails monolith, MySQL and few moving parts.
That's deliberate.
Simple infrastructure lets us move fast and lets AI reason about the whole system, so the hardest problems are the ones in front of customers.
Take a fuzzy business problem from the first sketch through to production, and stay on the hook for whether it actually helped customers.

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