Staff Software Engineer, Faire
Growth Platform
CA$190.5-262k
+Equity
2-5 days a week in office
Online wholesale marketplace for retailers & brands
Open for applications
Online wholesale marketplace for retailers & brands
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$190.5-262k
+Equity
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
- You want to build foundational systems that accelerate growth across multiple teams and product surfaces
- You enjoy solving challenging technical problems related to messaging, communication, personalization, targeting, and developer velocity
- You care deeply about internal customer experience and enjoy building tools, platforms, and workflows that make other teams dramatically more effective
- You get excited about creating leverage through platforms, abstractions, and tooling rather than only shipping individual features
- You get excited about driving large business impact in a Growth environment
- Have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Have experience building high-scale platforms, infrastructure, or reusable systems that enabled other engineering teams to move faster
- Demonstrate strong internal customer empathy and a track record of building platforms or tooling with high adoption and strong developer experience
- Have strong experience in either:
- Backend development (e.g., Kotlin, Java, C#, APIs, databases, distributed systems), or
- Frontend development (e.g., React, TypeScript/JavaScript, modern UI frameworks, performance optimization)
- Have consistently led large, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives with measurable impact
- Have strong experience with experimentation, A/B testing, and data-driven product development
- Think in terms of systems, leverage, and long-term scalability, not just feature delivery
- Are comfortable defining technical direction in loosely defined problem spaces
- Demonstrate strong product and business acumen, connecting engineering decisions to growth outcomes
- Have a track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team
- Are highly autonomous, strategic, and execution-oriented in fast-moving environments
- Have a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals or equivalent industry experience
What the job involves
- Faire is building the operating system for local retail. Every day, hundreds of thousands of independent retailers and brands rely on Faire to discover products, grow their businesses, and compete with large marketplaces
- Growth is a company-level priority at Faire because every improvement in acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and expansion directly impacts the success of local entrepreneurs around the world
- We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the technical vision and evolution of Faire’s Growth Platform - the communication systems, targeting capabilities, experimentation infrastructure and developer tooling that power growth across the company
- This is not just a builder role, you will set technical direction, shape strategy, and lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that accelerate Growth teams across multiple product areas. You’ll partner deeply with Product Engineers to translate ambiguous opportunities into scalable platform systems
- Lead the design and evolution of Faire’s Growth Platform capabilities, including communication and messaging infrastructure, targeting systems, developer tooling, and reusable growth primitives
- Partner closely with internal platform users to understand pain points, improve developer experience, and create highly usable self-serve growth tooling
- Architect scalable systems that enable teams to rapidly launch, validate, and scale growth initiatives
- Build frameworks and abstractions that reduce the cost and complexity of launching new growth initiatives
- Influence product and business strategy through deep technical insight and a strong understanding of growth levers
- Improve developer productivity and organizational efficiency by evolving platform tooling, frameworks, and operational processes
- Mentor and guide engineers across teams, raising the bar for technical quality, systems thinking, and business impact
- Operate as a cross-team technical leader, aligning multiple stakeholders and driving execution across organizational boundaries
- Backend: Kotlin, Java, JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey, MySQL, CockroachDB, AWS
- Frontend: React, TypeScript/JavaScript
- Infrastructure & Data: HTTP, JSON, Protocol Buffers, experimentation frameworks, analytics tooling
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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