Senior Engineering Manager, Faire
Search Infrastructure
$184-253k
+ Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Online wholesale marketplace
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Online wholesale marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$184-253k
+ Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower entrepreneurs around the world to chase their dreams.
Role
Who you are
- Have deep expertise in search infrastructure, including indexing, query optimization, and distributed search architectures (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, Vespa, Lucene)
- Have scaled high-performance search systems to support rapid growth and increasing complexity
- Have a strong background in distributed systems, data processing, caching strategies, and search observability
- Are passionate about search reliability and performance, with experience designing high-availability systems that support mission-critical workloads
- Have experience leading engineering teams, with a track record of building and growing high-performing, inclusive teams
- Enjoy collaborating across disciplines, working closely with relevance engineers, ML teams, and product engineers to deliver end-to-end search improvements
- Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and fast-changing conditions, bringing structure and clarity to complex problems
- Have experience working with cloud-native architectures, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, and modern search infrastructure tooling
- Believe in a culture of radical candor and psychological safety, encouraging diverse viewpoints and open discussion
- Expertise in search and retrieval technologies, focusing on scalability, fault tolerance, and search performance optimization
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of experience in engineering roles, with at least 5 years in leadership positions managing large-scale infrastructure or systems engineering teams
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, distributed search systems
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with a track record of hiring and retaining top engineering talent
- Experience in strategic planning and execution at a senior organizational level, aligning technical roadmaps with business priorities
What the job involves
- The Search Infrastructure team at Faire is the backbone of discovery, ensuring that every retailer has a fast, relevant, and reliable search experience
- Our mission is to build the best in class search infrastructure that’s most scalable, high-performance, intellectual, and reliable search infrastructure that enables internal teams to rapidly iterate while providing best-in-class experiences for our users
- We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Search Infrastructure team
- In this role, you will work closely with search relevance, machine learning, and other infrastructure teams to scale our search platform, ensuring it remains performant and reliable as Faire continues to grow
- Your focus will be on building a high-scale, low-latency, and reliable search stack while driving innovation in search and retrieval technologies.
- Define and execute the technical vision for Faire’s search infrastructure, ensuring it scales efficiently while maintaining high availability and performance—empowering the search algorithm to drive continuous innovation and transformative discovery experiences
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of experienced engineers working on search systems, fostering a culture of excellence and ownership
- Optimize search performance and reliability, improving indexing, query execution, and real-time updates across large-scale datasets
- Enable rapid experimentation for relevance and ranking teams by building flexible, scalable, and observable search infrastructure
- Scale search infrastructure to handle growing traffic, global expansion, and increasing complexity in search retrieval and personalization
- Improve search observability, building monitoring, alerting, and analytics to proactively detect and mitigate issues
- Drive collaboration across engineering teams, ensuring seamless integration of ML-based ranking and retrieval models
- Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent, fostering an inclusive and diverse team culture that encourages innovation and psychological safety
- Work closely with leadership to align search infrastructure investments with Faire’s business and engineering priorities
Our take
Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores, pairing independent brands with retailers. The company connects two million retailers globally to tens of thousands of brands across the globe.
In addition to a large catalog, the company attracts smaller retailers by offering net 60-day terms and free returns to boost confident buying at unpredictable times. Faire has seen impressive growth, reporting 300% year-on-year volume growth and a valuation of over $12.6B following its most recent tranche of funding from Shopify.
This investment is funding its continuing expansion into European and Australian markets, while accelerating product development, focusing on its OS for wholesale. It is also hiring talent globally as it takes aim at becoming a kind of Amazon for local and indie brands that want to sell globally.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
109% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
May 2022
$416m
SERIES G
Nov 2021
$400m
SERIES G
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare
- All of our offices have been designed with local in mind—from our architects to our coffee blends
- Paid vacation time, holidays, and company-wide “Faire Fundays.”
- Including a monthly credit toward your wellness-related programs
- Generous parental and family leave, as well as fertility support benefits
- Including free access to Modern Health therapists and resources
- Optional morning meditation, plus a free Headspace membership
- Faire will match up to US$250 of your charitable donations, every year
- For personal and professional development, as well as unlimited access to training courses through LinkedIn Learning
- Whether you want to grow as a leader, hone your craft, or explore a new discipline, our career framework allows space for you to explore
Leadership
Max Rhodes
(CEO)Was previously an Advisor at Blunt Umbrellas and Director of Consumer Product at Square.
Daniele Perito
(Advisor)Former Director of Security and Risk Engineering at Square, prior to co-founding Faire.
Marcelo Cortes
(CTO)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Google. Before that, co-founded FreePoint Inc.
Jeff Kolovson
(COO)Was Operations Lead at Square. Before that was a Business Analust for McKinsey and Co.
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