Staff Software Engineer, Search

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $299.3k - $372.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Babylist is the leading vertical marketplace and commerce destination for baby products, driving purchase decisions for more than 8 million people each year. It utilizes robust proprietary data, patented technology, and unbiased editorial guidance to recommend expert-tested products to those starting their parenting journey. Babylist registries connect new parents with their community of family and friends who help plan, prepare, and shop for a child's arrival. Founded in 2011 by Natalie Gordon, Babylist has grown from a side project into a generational brand in the $67 billion baby products market.

📋 Description

• Serve as technical lead for Babylist’s new Search team • Move Babylist’s search capability in-house and make results more relevant and personalized • Set technical direction, sequence initiatives and make technical and product decisions • Build search architecture for indexing, retrieval and serving and plan migration from the current system • Define search-result quality measures and improve query understanding, ranking and behavioral signals • Unify search across Babylist products, external-retailer products, guides and registries • Integrate search and recommendations using user and registry data • Develop conversational search with the Addie AI registry assistant • Take ambiguous business problems from initial concept through production and measure customer impact • Build and own platforms and tooling adopted by other teams • Establish AI development standards, patterns and evaluation harnesses • Partner with product, design and data teams • Coach Senior engineers through technical and ambiguous decisions • Participate in user interviews, session-recording reviews and support ride-alongs

🎯 Requirements

• Staff-level software engineering experience • Shipped production systems for enough years to have earned strong opinions • Experience changing how a team builds with AI, with the new way adopted • Hands-on production search experience, including indexing, retrieval, ranking and query understanding • Experience building and running search services that remain fast, relevant and reliable as traffic and catalog size grow • Experience evaluating search quality offline and online, including relevance judgments and A/B tests • Ability to use query data, behavior and result-quality judgment to guide product decisions • Ability to connect search changes to shopper behavior, conversion or revenue • Ability to define problems, design systems and own them end to end • Experience on search problems, ideally in e-commerce • Ability to use AI in engineering work • Ability to participate in a no-AI technical screen and an AI-assisted coding interview

🏖️ Benefits

• Target annual bonus of 20 percent of base • Meaningful equity • RRSP 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 arrangement • Company-wide in-person gatherings twice a year

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