Faire - Senior Product Engineer - Retailer Experience & Growth - Fullstack, Backend or Frontend
Requirements
• We're looking for engineers who are excited about building products that create measurable customer and business impact. • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong experience building backend systems or modern frontend applications • A track record of shipping customer-facing products and driving meaningful outcomes • Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills • Comfort working in fast-moving, highly cross-functional environments • Curiosity about customer behavior, experimentation, and data-informed decision making • Experience with growth, experimentation, marketplace, or consumer product teams • Experience designing and analyzing A/B tests • Familiarity with product analytics and experimentation platforms • Experience working on products at significant scale • Experience working with Marketing or Paid Spend Optimization • Don't meet every qualification? We know great candidates come from many different backgrounds and experiences. If you're excited about the role, we'd encourage you to apply. • Technologies we use & teach: • Experience with similar technologies is welcome - you don’t need experience with our exact stack. • Frontend development (e.g., React, TypeScript/JavaScript, modern UI frameworks, performance optimization). • Frontend development • 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
• Growth at Faire is different from growth at most companies. • We're not optimizing clicks on ads or chasing short-term engagement metrics. We're helping independent retailers discover products they love, build stronger businesses, and compete in an increasingly challenging retail landscape. • As a Growth Engineer, you'll work on some of Faire's most important customer journeys - from a retailer's first interaction with Faire through long-term engagement and success on the platform. You'll tackle complex product challenges involving discovery, onboarding, activation, retention, and marketplace dynamics. • You'll operate as a true product engineer, partnering closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing to identify opportunities, launch experiments, and measure outcomes. The team moves quickly, but with the scale and complexity of a global marketplace serving hundreds of thousands of businesses. • This role offers a rare combination of customer impact, business impact, and technical ownership. You'll see the results of your work directly in the experience retailers have on Faire and in the growth of the businesses we serve. • Faire is helping independent retailers thrive in a world increasingly dominated by large chains and marketplaces. Every day, hundreds of thousands of retailers use Faire to discover unique products, connect with brands, and grow their businesses. • As a Senior Engineer on our Growth team, you'll build products and experiments that directly influence how retailers discover, adopt, and engage with Faire. Your work will sit at the intersection of product, engineering, data science, design, and marketing, giving you an unusual level of visibility into both customer outcomes and business impact. • Growth is one of Faire's most important strategic areas. You'll identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, launch experiments, and use data to determine what works. Whether you're improving onboarding, increasing engagement, driving retention, or helping retailers realize value faster, you'll see the results of your work reflected in meaningful business metrics. • This is an ideal role for engineers who enjoy combining technical excellence with product thinking. You'll have significant ownership, move quickly from idea to launch, and help shape the future of one of Faire's most important product areas. • 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. • Move fast: You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly. • Move fast: • Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day. • Equipped to scale: • Best in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft and about helping you grow in yours. • Best in class: • Real rewards. Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work. • Belonging: We're intentional about building an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success. • Belonging: • 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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