Co-op Back-end Engineer, Faire
Spring / Summer 2025
$32-$52 CAD per hour
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Online wholesale marketplace
Be an early applicant
Online wholesale marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$32-$52 CAD per hour
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
- A passion for programming and solving problems with code
- A familiarity with OOP languages such as Java or C#
- A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems
- Technologies we use and teach:
- Kotlin
- JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Protocol Buffers
- MySQL, CockroachDB, Redis
What the job involves
- Our engineering team owns the code that makes our marketplace work. We care about good engineering practice and love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, and can scale to millions of users.
- We build minimum viable products, deploy to production multiple times per day, A/B test customer-facing changes, listen to the data, and iterate. The Fall 2025 co-op term for this role will occur between June and October
- Take on responsibilities of a full-time engineer and be treated like a permanent Faire employee from day one
- Work alongside talented engineers and engineering leaders, product managers, and designers on a daily basis to contribute to real projects with real impacts
- Be challenged to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment with supportive team members
- Own projects from scoping to shipping and see how your work directly impacts our customers and drives data-focused results
- Deliver core features of our Kotlin server
- Design and build new APIs used by our website and mobile app
- Write integration tests for everything
- Share ownership of our product
- A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems
Application process
- Step 1: Technical Interview (1 hr)
- Meet 1:1 with an experienced engineer and work through a pair programming exercise together. Use this CodeSignal link to prep for the technical interview (this is entirely optional)
- If you’re selected to advance beyond the technical interview, our Talent Team will follow up with you via email to invite you to:
- Step 2: Phone Call with Recruiter (15 mins)
- Chat 1:1 with a Faire recruiter to get your questions answered. Our recruiter will also share some additional details, including what to expect in terms of compensation
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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