Staff Android Engineer

Who We Are

Babylist is the trusted platform for millions of 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, Expectful, 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 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

• Our Android application is 100% Kotlin
• Android Room
• OkHttp / Retrofit
• Kotlin Coroutines / Flow
• Ruby on Rails REST API

What the Role Is

Babylist is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Android to join and lead on our mobile team. This team is responsible for the core experiences of our users through their new parent journey with Babylist. You’ll work with expert Product Managers, Design, and software engineers to build out the experience that is the core of our business and execute other key initiatives.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of experience developing, architecting, optimizing and shipping high performance Android applications
• You should be able to demonstrate a concrete understanding of Android best practices
• Experience with Android libraries like Android X/Jetpack, Room, Kotlin Coroutines, Retrofit 
• Familiarity with modern Android architectures and frameworks, like Model-View Intent (MVI), Kotlin Flow, and Compose
• You’re confident in the Android ecosystem and have used modern Android tools and frameworks.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies like Compose is a plus
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails or API design is a plus
• You’re confident in the Android ecosystem and have used modern Android tools and frameworks
• You have built and executed on Android technical roadmaps
• You find pride in shipping code that’s clean, DRY, and well-tested
• You take ownership of your projects, from technical planning and implementation to testing and deployment
• You enjoy partnering up with product and design teams to deliver a great user experience
• You enjoy partnering with web and backend staff engineers on API design and system-wide changes that could affect mobile
• You have the confidence to communicate something technical to a non-technical team member
• You know how to cut out the jargon and talk to others like human beings
• You know how to roll up your sleeves. We like systems that run well, but when things don't go as planned we support each other.

How You Will Make An Impact

• You’ll design the architecture, manage the performance, and drive decisions to grow the code base on our key consumer app.
• You’ll collaborate with our product, design, and mobile development teams to build exciting new features and experiences in an app that people love. Our Android app is used by hundreds of thousands of delighted users -- that’s why it’s rated five star on Google Play!
• You’ll have the autonomy and control to shape the future of our codebase
• You’ll collaborate with our platform team to design APIs
• You’ll own platform and infrastructure projects to ensure our app is staying stable and up to date

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

• We invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems 
• We believe in exceptional management 
• We are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

Babylist takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.

The estimated pay range for this role is $159,260.00 - $239,040.00

In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Our company takes the security and privacy of job applicants very seriously. We will never ask for payment, bank details, or personal financial information as part of the application process. All of our legitimate job postings can be found on our official career site. Please be cautious of job offers that come from non-company email addresses (@babylist.com), instant messaging platforms or unsolicited calls.

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