Faire - Senior Growth Platform Engineer
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Requirements
• Experience in marketplace, e-commerce, or two-sided platform environments. • Familiarity with statistical experimentation concepts (power, bias, sample sizing). • Experience integrating with marketing automation, CRM, or lifecycle systems. • Exposure to real-time personalization or recommendation systems. • Technologies we use & teach: • Experience with similar technologies is welcome - you don’t need experience with our exact stack. • Backend: Kotlin, Java, Guice, Jersey, Hibernate • Backend: • Datastores: MySQL, CockroachDB • Datastores: • Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), Docker • Infrastructure & Cloud: • APIs & Data: HTTP, REST, JSON, Protocol Buffers • APIs & Data: • Experimentation & Growth: Feature flagging systems, A/B testing frameworks, traffic ramping tools • Experimentation & Growth:
Responsibilities
• Architect and build scalable backend systems that power experimentation, segmentation, and targeting. • Design growth infrastructure that enables product teams to ship experiments safely and independently. • Build APIs and services that support personalization, incentives, lifecycle triggers, and growth workflows. • Partner with Data Science and Analytics to ensure accurate experiment assignment, event tracking, and metric integrity. • Improve experimentation velocity by reducing friction in tooling, deployment, and analysis. • Ensure systems are reliable, observable, secure, and capable of operating at marketplace scale. • Establish best practices for experimentation guardrails, traffic allocation, and statistical integrity. • Influence technical direction across the Growth organization through platform design and architectural leadership
Benefits
• Canada: the pay range for this role is $156,000 - $214,500 per year. • This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future. • Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting. • We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is taking part in the founding process. • We are entrepreneurs: • We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners. • We are using technology and data to level the playing field: • We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy. • We build products our customers love: • We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality. • We are curious and resourceful: • Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog.
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