--- title: 'Founding Full Stack Product Engineer at hellobabs.ai' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-full-stack-product-engineer-hellobabs-ai-san-francisco-avv5tssnjb0b' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Founding Full Stack Product Engineer at hellobabs.ai - **Company:** hellobabs.ai - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-11-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/hellobabs-ai/am9icG9zdDp9IMEXd1p55JCkYvWzcDR3 ## Job description Why join us? Because you believe time is life’s most precious asset, and that time with the people you care about most is worth obsessing over. You want to build something that genuinely helps people organize their daily lives and feel more present in them. Because you want to work on a small, high-talent-density consumer tech team, alongside people who have built and scaled products at places like Uber, Uber Eats, Airbnb, Faire, and Snowflake, and who bring both hard-won experience and a sense of perspective to the work. And because you’re excited to dream big, start small, and help build something enduring that shows up in everyday life. ## About Babs Babs is building the smart collaborative operating system for modern households and families. Most AI tools are designed for work life, but managing home life is its own full-time job filled with fragmented information, complex logistics, multiple constituencies, and constant context switching. Babs acts as a second brain that brings order to everyday life by connecting information, workflows, and decisions into one intelligent system. Our edge is our ability to make complex systems feel simple, derived from over a decade of experience serving in global consumer tech and analog Babs roles alike. Our strength is our team: driven, thoughtful builders with world-class experience united by a shared mission to give people the power to live organized lives and organized minds. Babs is backed by Accel, the leading VC firm investing in AI with $26bn+ under management and investments in Scale AI, Vercel, Anthropic, Cursor, and Babs. ## The role We’re looking for a Full-Stack Product Engineer to help design and build the Babs experience from end to end. You’ll work across the stack, from the interfaces that families touch every day to the systems that make them intelligent and responsive. This role is ideal for an engineer who loves building intuitive, high-impact products and thrives at the intersection of design, data, and AI. You’ll own features from concept to production, blending craft and speed to deliver user experiences that feel effortless on the surface but are deeply connected behind the scenes. You’ll work directly with the founder, design, product, and platform teams to shape the foundations of our app and set the patterns for performance, reliability, and beauty that will define Babs as we scale. ## What you’ll do - Design and build full-stack projects end-to-end: from prototypes to foundational platform elements that connect frontend experiences to backend systems and AI workflows - Build intuitive, responsive interfaces that make complex interactions feel simple and meaningful - Partner closely with design to translate prototypes into production-ready experiences - Collaborate with platform engineers to integrate APIs, event pipelines, and real-time data flows - Ensure quality through thoughtful code structure, testing, and observability - Contribute to architectural discussions around scalability, performance, and developer experience - Move quickly, experiment responsibly, and iterate with users in mind - Help shape early engineering culture and product development rhythms Our ideal candidate has - 4+ years of experience building high-quality consumer-facing web and mobile applications - Enthusiasm working in AI-native development environments, regularly using AI IDEs to code - Strong fluency in JavaScript or TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (React or React Native) - Significant experience in backend API development, including familiarity with authentication/authorization and relational data modeling The best candidates have - A deep respect for design and the user experience, with strong attention to detail - The ability to balance startup pace with quality and maintainability - A deep desire to be surrounded by a top notch, earned-through-experience team ## Compensation & benefits - Base salary range: $150,000 – $200,000, depending on experience and expertise - Competitive equity package: up to 1.5%, depending on experience - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sequoia benefits - Flexible PTO and a work culture built on trust and autonomy - A team that values craftsmanship, collaboration, and purpose over fluff If you’re excited by our mission, we’d love to meet you — even if you don’t check every box. We care about curiosity, integrity, and a good sense of humor. ## About hellobabs.ai ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Babs is an AI-powered household operating system that proactively extracts events, deadlines, and to-dos from family emails (Gmail) to help parents manage their family’s operational load. - **Entity Type**: Private (Funding stage not publicly disclosed; currently in free private beta) - **Headquarters**: United States (Remote/Hybrid; team also in Belgium) - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Liz Meyerdirk (Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Consumer productivity software / AI-powered personal assistant - **Target customers**: B2C – primarily parents (especially the parent who manages the family’s schedule, communications, and logistics) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “A household is real work – and real work deserves real tools.” Babs aims to give families the same kind of operational systems that corporate enterprises have. ## Products & Services - **[Babs App]**: An AI assistant (iOS, Android, and web) that connects to Gmail with read-only access, scans household emails (school newsletters, activity updates, coach communications, camp confirmations), and automatically surfaces events, deadlines, and action items in a clean feed. Users tap to add to their calendar or to-do list. Builds context over time about family members, schools, activities, and important senders. Type: SaaS / mobile app. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; currently free to users (private beta with waitlist) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed - **Growth Signals**: Small but focused team (4 employees); private beta generating waitlist interest; product addresses a clear pain point for busy families; emphasis on privacy (no data selling, no AI model training on user data) differentiates from larger competitors. ## Competitive Advantages - **Proactive, not reactive**: Unlike chatbots or manual-entry apps, Babs reads emails and extracts actionable items without user input. - **Contextual intelligence**: Builds persistent knowledge about the family (kids, schools, activities, senders) so it improves over time. - **Privacy-first**: Read-only Gmail access; no data sold or used for advertising; third-party AI services contractually prohibited from training on user data. - **Focus on the “operational load” parent**: Designed specifically for the person who coordinates the household, not a generic calendar or task app. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Building a product worth paying for before monetizing; expanding beyond Gmail to other email providers; adding native desktop apps (macOS, Windows); refining AI extraction accuracy and user experience. - **Growth direction**: Word-of-mouth and waitlist-driven; likely to introduce a paid subscription once the product matures. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Mission-driven team tackling a real, underserved problem for families; small team (4 people) means high ownership and impact; emphasis on privacy and user trust. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid workspace (employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work; typical time on-site not specified). Team distributed across United States and Belgium. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Early-stage environment with opportunity to shape product and culture; focus on building thoughtful, user-respecting AI. ## Sources 1. [hellobabs.ai/careers](https://www.hellobabs.ai/careers) 2. [hellobabs.ai/about](https://www.hellobabs.ai/about) 3. [hellobabs.ai/faq](https://www.hellobabs.ai/faq) 4. [linkedin.com/company/hello-babs](https://linkedin.com/company/hello-babs) 5. [builtin.com/company/babs-ai](https://builtin.com/company/babs-ai) ## Other roles at hellobabs.ai - [Founding AI/ML Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-ai-ml-engineer-hellobabs-ai-san-francisco-se5qehpafhkb) — San Francisco, CA