Senior Growth Engineer
Faire
About Faire
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these massive entities. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.
By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.
About the role:
Our mission in the Retailer Growth pillar is to efficiently reach, acquire, and engage retailers across their lifecycle. As a Senior engineer on the Retailer Growth pillar you will drive the frontend platform evolution and tooling working alongside product, design, marketing to achieve our mission.
You’re excited about this role because…
- You get excited about driving large business impact in a Growth environment.
- You are entrepreneurial and data-driven, with a strong product sense
- You want to use technology to help your local independent retailers and brands succeed
- You’re excited by continuous improvement and innovative strategies to propel business growth
- You like to solve challenging engineering problems related to speed, developer efficiency, and building tools for rapid experimentation
What you'll do:
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and marketing to contribute significantly to the success of the business or the engineering platform
- Identify and capitalize on new opportunities, overseeing complex multi-phase projects across multiple teams and platforms from concept to implementation
- Optimize web applications for peak performance and scalability, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, fast, and scalable code
- develop strategies on what technologies we adopt and utilize to best serve the needs of the business with only high level direction
- Mentor fellow engineers, sharing industry best practices in front-end development
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience
- Proficient in HTML, CSS, Typescript, and frameworks/libraries like React, Next.js
- Comfortable with building backend services in Java, Kotlin
- Experience in building responsive and user-centric web applications
- Strong understanding of web performance optimization techniques
- Past experience working on Growth team to drive top-funnel and mid-funnel conversion
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems
Technologies we use and teach:
- Typescript, Javascript, Kotlin, Java
- React, Next.js
- Jest, Cypress.io, Playwright
Salary range:
Canada: the pay range for this role is $156,000 - $195,000 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.
This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule - Faire employees will be expected to go into the office 2 days per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, effective the week of January 13, 2025. Additionally, in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.
Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date.
Why you’ll love working at Faire
- 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 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 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 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.
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.
Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form)