6 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$191k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end technical vision and architecture for Faire’s search and discovery experience.
- Design composable grids, intent-aware routing, and orchestration layers that unify retrieval and ranking.
- Use LLMs to modernize query understanding and improve long-tail and edge-case search accuracy.
- Increase retrieval scale while maintaining stable, low-latency search performance.
- Develop AI-driven features and offline pipelines to recover failed search sessions through expanded queries.
- Partner with client engineers on SDUI and React Server Components for dynamic search layouts and improved performance.
- Own reliability and observability across the search funnel, including query planning and real-time retrieval monitoring.
- Mentor engineers and drive technical excellence, ownership, and cross-functional decision-making.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 3+ years as a technical leader driving complex, cross-team projects.
- Strong programming skills in Kotlin or Java and experience with high-performance backend systems, Protocol Buffers, and MySQL.
- Experience partnering with Data Science to deploy and leverage machine learning and generative AI systems in search ranking and retrieval.
- Knowledge of search and query processing, including traditional, semantic, and hybrid frameworks such as Elasticsearch and Lucene.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical direction and influence broader organizational strategy and roadmaps.
Benefits
- Eligible for equity and benefits.
- Hybrid schedule with three office days per week: Tuesdays, Thursdays, and one flex day on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday.
- Hybrid employees may work remotely for up to four weeks per year.
- Equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations are provided.
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About Faire
Faire builds a B2B wholesale marketplace that connects independent retailers with consumer brands for product discovery, ordering, and net terms. It monetizes through marketplace commissions and financial services, and provides tools for payments, returns, and analytics to help shops source inventory. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates across North America and Europe and is privately held.