Software Engineer, Faire
Retailer Growth
CA$129.5-178k
+ Equity
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
Online wholesale marketplace for retailers & brands
Be an early applicant
Online wholesale marketplace for retailers & brands
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$129.5-178k
+ 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
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Comfortable working across the stack — experience with frontend (TypeScript, React) and/or backend (Kotlin, Java) is welcome
- Experience shipping features end-to-end, from design through production
- Familiarity with experimentation concepts (A/B testing, feature flags, traffic allocation)
- Ability to work with data: comfortable reading dashboards, writing queries, and reasoning about metrics
- Strong product instincts — you think about the user and the business, not just the implementation
- Experience in a growth, lifecycle, or consumer product environment is a plus
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems
- Experience with similar technologies is welcome — you don’t need experience with our exact stack
- Frontend: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js
- Backend: Kotlin, Java, Guice, Jersey, Hibernate
- Datastores: MySQL, CockroachDB
- Testing: Jest, Cypress.io, Playwright
- Experimentation & Growth: Feature flagging systems, A/B testing frameworks, traffic ramping tools
- Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), Docker
What the job involves
- At Faire we have a business unit focused on Retailer Growth that oversees core growth strategies from top of funnel, to onboarding, to helping Retailers get up and running to be successful on Faire. As a Software Engineer on the Retailer Growth pillar, you will work closely with product, design, data science, and marketing to build and scale the systems that power our growth - from experimentation and personalization to onboarding and lifecycle engagement
- This is a generalist role. We’re looking for engineers who are curious, product-minded, and excited to work across the stack to drive business outcomes
- You get excited about driving measurable business impact in a Growth environment
- You are entrepreneurial and data-driven, with a strong product sense
- You want to use technology to help independent retailers and brands succeed
- You’re energized by experimentation, iteration, and using data to inform decisions
- You enjoy working across the stack and aren’t precious about the discipline — you go where the problem is
- You like solving challenging engineering problems related to speed, developer efficiency, and building tools for rapid experimentation
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and marketing to ship features and experiments that drive retailer acquisition, onboarding, and engagement
- Independently execute end-to-end projects — from scoping and design through implementation and measurement
- Build and contribute to growth infrastructure: experimentation tooling, targeting and segmentation systems, lifecycle triggers, and personalization features
- Design and implement reliable, observable, and scalable services and APIs that operate at marketplace scale
- Use data to drive decisions: partner with Analytics and Data Science to instrument features, design experiments, and interpret results
- Optimize user-facing experiences for performance and conversion, with attention to the full funnel
- Contribute to a culture of quality: write clean, well-tested code and share knowledge across the team
Our take
Faire is helping retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores, pairing independent brands with retailers. The company connects over 500,000 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 11 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 & 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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