Senior Backend Engineer, Faire
Ads Measurement
CA$156-214.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
Online wholesale marketplace
Be an early applicant
Online wholesale marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$156-214.5k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower brands and retailers to strengthen the unique character of local communities.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5+ years in backend systems, including 2+ years working on large-scale analytical or decision systems
- Technical Depth: Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or similar object-oriented languages; comfort with distributed systems, service design, and performance optimization
- Data Fluency: Experience integrating with ML-driven decision systems, experimentation frameworks, or real-time data pipelines
- Collaboration: Strong communication skills and a track record of partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, from DS to PM, to deliver complex systems
- Mindset: Curiosity and a drive to understand complex market dynamics; passion for applying data and algorithms to real-world business problems
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience
What the job involves
- Faire’s Ads teams are building the next generation of marketplace intelligence — powering personalized discovery and efficient ad delivery for our brands and retailers
- Our systems connect the right products with the right buyers through intelligent pricing, auction mechanisms, and large-scale retrieval and ranking pipelines
- As a Senior Back-end Engineer (L4), you’ll take ownership of the core algorithms and infrastructure that shape the way our ads and search systems decide what to show, to whom, and at what price
- You’ll partner closely with the Data Science and Analytics team to bridge engineering and analytics—turning raw events into reliable datasets and services that power product decisions, experimentation, and continuous improvement
- This role offers a rare opportunity to shape both product and technical direction in a fast-moving, high-impact area at Faire
- Own critical services within our Kotlin-based backend, driving reliability, scalability, and low-latency performance across billions of ad and search events
- Design the data foundation for Ads: build and maintain batch/streaming ETL pipelines that power ranking, retrieval, and pricing systems, and defining metrics that enable self-serve analytics at scale
- Measure and iterate on system performance, using experimentation and analytics to guide continuous improvement
- Mentor engineers and contribute to team best practices in design reviews, performance tuning, and system architecture
- Technologies We Use and Teach:
- Kotlin, Java, Python
- AWS, Snowflake, Airflow, Spark
- MySQL, Dynamo, CockroachDB, Elasticsearch
- JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey
- HTTP, JSON, Protocol Buffers
Our take
Faire is helping retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores, pairing independent brands with retailers. The company connects two million retailers globally to hundreds 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: Including Health, Dental, Vision and Disability for all our locations.
- Time off: Paid time off, holidays and company-wide "Faire Fundays".
- Parental leave: Generous parental and family leave, as well as fertility support benefits.
- Productivity support: Monthly stipends to help cover work from home connectivity needs.
- Annual learning grant: For personal and professional development, as well as unlimited access to training courses through LinkedIn Learning.
- Thoughtfully designed spaces: All of our offices have been designed with local in mind – from our architects to our coffee blends.
- Fitness and well-being benefits: Including monthly credit towards your wellness-related programmes.
- Mental health benefits: Including free access to Modern Health therapists and resources.
- Charitable matching: Faire will match up to £250 of your charity donations, every year.
- Career planning: 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.
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Rhodes
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Advisor at Blunt Umbrellas and a Director of Consumer Product at Square.
Marcelo Cortes
(Co-Founder 7 Chief Architect)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Google. Prior to that, they co-founded FreePoint Inc.
Jeff Kolovson
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously an Operations Lead at Square. Prior to that, they were a Business Analyst for McKinsey and Co.
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