Staff Software Engineer, Search

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $233.5k - $290.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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💰 $40M Series C on 2021-11

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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 • Set search direction, sequence initiatives and make technical and product decisions over the next year or two • Build Babylist’s search capability in-house from the ground up • Choose indexing, retrieval and serving architecture and plan a seamless migration • Define search-result quality metrics and improve query understanding, ranking and behavioral signals • Unify search across Babylist products, other retailers’ products, guides and registries • Determine how search and recommendations fit together using user and registry data • Develop conversational search with the Addie AI registry assistant and LLMs • Take ambiguous business problems from initial concept through production and own customer outcomes • Build and own platforms or tooling adopted by other teams • Establish AI development standards, patterns and evaluations • Partner with product, design and data teams • Coach Senior engineers • Stay close to customers through user interviews, session recordings and support ride-alongs

🎯 Requirements

• Staff-level software engineering experience with enough years shipping production systems to have earned strong opinions • Hands-on production search experience, including indexing, retrieval, ranking and query understanding • Experience evaluating search quality offline and online, including relevance judgments and A/B tests • Ability to keep search services fast, relevant and reliable as traffic and catalog size grow • Ability to connect search changes to shopper behavior, conversion or revenue • Experience defining problems, designing systems and owning them end to end • Experience changing how a team builds with AI, with the new way adopted • Experience with search problems, ideally in an e-commerce setting • Ability to work from the United States or Canada • Technical knowledge of Rails, Packwerk, React, TypeScript, Sidekiq, MySQL, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Weaviate, AWS SageMaker, MLflow, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions and related stack technologies

🏖️ 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

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