Senior Staff Back-End Engineer, Faire
Search
CA$199-274k
+ Equity
Online wholesale marketplace
Open for applications
Online wholesale marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$199-274k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower entrepreneurs around the world to chase their dreams.
Role
Who you are
- 5 + years of industry experience with search/query processing for product development
- Experience with traditional, semantic, and hybrid search frameworks (e.g. Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr, FAISS)
- Experience using machine learning systems for search
- Experience with search indexing, ranking, retrieval systemsExperience with optimize search latency
- Experience with highly available/fault-tolerant, replicated data storage systems, large-scale data processing systems, or enterprise/cloud storage systems
- 8+ years of experience building and managing distributed systems. Sound understanding of distributed system fundamentals
- Strong programming skills, including experience with the following
- Kotlin, Java 16
- JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey
- HTTP, JSON, and Protocol Buffers
- MySQL
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work with others in a closely collaborative team environment
What the job involves
- Faire is using machine learning to change wholesale and help local retailers compete with Amazon and big box stores. Our experienced team of engineers and data scientists are developing solutions related to discovery, ranking, search, and recommendations - all with the goal of helping local retail thrive
- Our Engineering team in collaboration with the Data team owns a wide variety of machine learning systems that power the marketplace. 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
- As a leading technical member of the Search Back-end Infra team, this role will be responsible for developing next generation Search at Faire, unlocking new search retrieval and ranking applications while meeting industry benchmarks for the latency of our search experience
- You’ll be able to work on cutting-edge search query and understanding problems combining a wide variety of data about our retailers, brands and products
- You’ll develop an infrastructure that support state-of-the-art search algorithms, while enhancing search performance and relevance
- You’ll optimize existing search infrastructure for efficiency, speed, and accuracy
- You’ll build strong cross-functional partnerships with Data Scientists, Analysts, Product Managers, Engineers, Data Platform and Machine Learning Engineers to understand data needs and deliver on those needs
- You want to leverage machine learning to help local retailers and independent brands succeed
- You want to be a foundational team member of a fast growing company
- You like to solve challenging problems related to a two-sided marketplace
Application process
- Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date
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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
109% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"I joined Faire over a month ago and the onboarding has been very comprehensive including some additional material that has been extremely helpful..."
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
Company values
- We serve our community
- We seek the truth
- We’re all owners
- We embrace the adventure
- We’re kind
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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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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Faire
Clarence Sanon (Engagement and Inclusion Manager)
- We have internal structures and mechanisms that acknowledge and counteract organizational bias while ensuring equitable opportunity across the organization.
- Our teams are balanced across demographic backgrounds and identities, ensuring equity at all levels of the organization and ensuring a region-specific nuance
- Faire Femmes: Our mission is to build a space that is inclusive, safe, and empowering for those who identify as women to succeed
- HUE: Our mission is to create a safe space where folks of colour can feel comfortable being themselves and talk to folks who get it. We want HUE members to feel confident expressing themselves, their culture, and their heritage
- Flaire: Our mission is to empower all Faire employees to express their whole selves at work, and to make Faire an inclusive environment for all members of the LGBTQ+ community
- Fairents: Our mission is to cultivate Faire into a company where working parents can thrive in their professional ambitions, maximize their impact supporting Faire business goals, and be successful in their pursuit of rewarding & fulfilling journeys as parents
- We have employee resource groups (ERGs) and a cross-functional Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Council (DEIB) at Faire. The DEIB Council works in collaboration with other functions to ensure integration and consideration of DEIB in policies, programs, products, and processes
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