Intermediate Engineer, Faire
Platform Infrastructure
CA$125-157k
Plus equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Online wholesale marketplace
Open for applications
Online wholesale marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$125-157k
Plus equity
More information about location
2 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
- We’re looking for: An experienced engineer with application and infrastructure level experience to work alongside our highly talented team, develop and deliver technical projects, and engage with other teams in the organization
- Experience developing and running distributed systems, diagnosing, mitigating, and permanently addressing production issues at scale
- An interest in solving low-level performance problems and high-level system scalability problems
- Strong communication skills
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- Networking (across the entire stack)
- Public cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Caching and storage, both RDBMS and non-relational
- Scaling high-volume, high-traffic systems
- Observability, distributed tracing, root cause analysis
- Capacity <> cost tradeoffs
- Select technologies we use and teach: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloudflare, PagerDuty, Elasticsearch, Redis, Dynamo, Datadog, Kotlin
What the job involves
- Our Engineering organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work. Our Core Platform Infrastructure group enables product engineering teams to build and operate software with unmatched speed and quality
- We care about good engineering practices, excellent developer experience, security, testability, ease of maintenance, and scaling to serve millions of users
- The team builds and operates infrastructure used by all Faire services. It drives best practices to achieve excellent availability and performance
- The team focuses on the following areas and capabilities:
- Rate limiting & retries
- Circuit breaking
- Load testing
- Fault injection
- SLOs
- Cost / performance optimization
- Monitoring & observability
- Caching systems and low-latency practices
- Database stability & performance
- Orchestrated safe change management
- The team also owns relationships with select infrastructure vendors
- Plan and execute on technology projects that scale with our growth; contribute to our architecture with a focus on performance, scalability, reliability, monitoring/alerting
- Engage with team planning and prioritization, balancing urgent and near-term needs with long-term goals
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship on difficult open-ended problems
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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