Senior Engineering Manager, E-Commerce

Who We Are

Babylist is the leading digital destination for growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectul, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn more about Babylist’s registry options,editorial content and more, visit www.babylist.com 

Our Ways of Working

We have team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. This means we put in extra effort to make sure we connect and collaborate in ways that make sense for us. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees. 

We know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build those relationships with team members in other cities, we meet with coworkers in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These offsites are expected of employees and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually.

Our Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• Shopify
• AWS
• MySQL
• Sidekiq
• Redis
• React
• Native iOS and Android

What the Role Is

The Senior Engineering Manager, E-Commerce, will lead the most critical initiatives for Babylist on our path to becoming the specialty retailer in baby commerce. Babylist is already a leading generational brand with more than 9 million people making purchases from our store every year, but the opportunity to seize a significantly larger part of the $88B baby product industry is incredible. With a huge brand like BuyBuyBaby going out of business, this leaves a hole in the space and Babylist is positioned very well to not only fill, but dominate this specialty market. 

You will lead and hire a new team of experienced software engineers to deliver an aggressive roadmap. You must be an influential, experienced, and highly-technical leader that’s adept at building and maintaining a culture of engagement and excellence. You will build and maintain productive relationships with our CEO, VP of Engineering, Director of Engineering, and other senior leaders across the business.

Who You Are

• Before becoming a leader you were a high-performing engineer with a track record of end to end software development of live systems. Ideally you have done this in a Ruby on Rails environment.
• You have experience in building ecommerce shopping solutions. Experience in specific areas like Product Information Management Systems, Offers and Pricing, Product Recommendations, Search and Discovery, Catalog, Check Out Experience, and/or building the infrastructure around a best in class ecommerce shopping experience will be highly valuable
• You have experience in experimentation and a/b testing that will lead us to building a super powerful ecommerce store and experience for our customers
• You have led high functioning teams and meaningfully built and maintained engineering culture
• You’ve successfully led teams through growth and change which means you know how to adapt but also set and maintain standards for your team that scale with the business
• You are a great coach of engineers with experience hiring, developing talent, and giving feedback

How You Will Make An Impact

• Define, build, and maintain high-performance, results-driven, and collaborative culture that's aligned with Babylist's core values
• Capitalize on the foundation of Babylist and our engaged customer base to further build out a more powerful shopping experience
• Own the tactical planning and execution for your team while partnering with other Engineering and Product leaders on shared goals against Babylist's strategic imperatives
• Be a thought leader and expert in the ecommerce store/shopping domain by prioritizing the highest value areas
• Empower and inspire your team to achieve their highest potential. Play