Senior Backend Engineer, Faire
Developer Productivity
CA$156-195k
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON)
Online wholesale marketplace
Open for applications
Online wholesale marketplace
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
CA$156-195k
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office (Kitchener-Waterloo, ON)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower entrepreneurs around the world to chase their dreams.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in back-end development (Java, Kotlin, or similar)
- Passion for developer experience, tooling, and automation
- Interest in AI/LLMs and their applications in developer productivity
- Experience with Bazel build system
- Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and cloud infrastructure (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Docker, AWS, OCI, or similar)
- Ability to collaborate across teams, solve complex engineering problems, and drive efficiency
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring new tools and technologies to enhance development workflows
- Bonus point for experience working with monorepos and large-scale codebase management
What the job involves
- Imagine a world where every engineer at Faire can ship code faster, deploy confidently, and test seamlessly—because of the tools you build
- Our Developer Productivity team makes that vision a reality, and we're looking for a backend engineer to help take it even further
- In this role, you will directly lead initiatives that streamline our engineers development lifecycle
- Your work will remove bottlenecks, improve reliability, and enable engineers across Faire to build at incredible speed
- Build and maintain high-quality features for internal developer tooling
- Identify pain points in engineering workflows and design both immediate fixes and long-term improvements
- Experiment with LLMs and AI-powered automation to redefine how engineers write, test, and deploy code
- Enhance the reliability and speed of local development environments, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks
- Contribute to the platform roadmap, using data-driven insights to set priorities and measure impact
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
- Faire will match up to US$250 of your charitable donations, every year
- 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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