6 months ago
Base Salary
$231k - $318k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the end-to-end technical architecture and roadmap 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 accuracy for long-tail queries and edge cases.
- Increase retrieval candidate volume while maintaining stable, low-latency search performance.
- Develop AI-driven features such as Search Missions using offline pipelines and LLMs to recover failed search sessions.
- Partner with client engineers on SDUI and React Server Components to improve dynamic search layouts, performance, and developer velocity.
- Own reliability and observability across the search funnel, including query planner refactors and real-time retrieval monitoring.
- Collaborate with Data Science, Product, and Design on ranking models and user experience.
- Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence, ownership, and sound decision-making.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 3+ years of experience as a technical leader driving complex, cross-team projects.
- Strong programming skills in Kotlin or Java and experience building high-performance backend systems.
- Experience with Protocol Buffers and MySQL.
- Experience partnering with Data Science to deploy and leverage machine learning and generative-AI systems in search experiences across 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 contribute to team strategy without supervision.
- Ability to influence the broader organizational roadmap and collaborate across teams.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are provided.
- Hybrid employees work from the office three 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.
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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.