3 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$191k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the end-to-end architecture and technical vision for next-generation ad formats and a unified serving layer.
- Build automated systems for ad format serving, optimization, and A/B testing.
- Create framework-level solutions that accelerate development of new formats and improve user understanding.
- Prototype and experiment with new ad format concepts based on market trends, user behavior, and advertiser needs.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Ads Delivery, Ads Bidding, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive solutions.
- Improve availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management across the platform.
- Mentor and develop engineers while raising the organization’s technical standards.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years as a technical leader driving complex, cross-team projects.
- Deep expertise building and scaling ad formats or similar user-facing content delivery systems.
- Strong programming and system design skills, with experience leading and operating highly available, high-performance, low-latency backend systems at scale.
- Use modern AI tooling as a core part of delivery and apply AI best practices in daily work.
- Ability to understand customers, shape product direction, and turn ambiguous business problems into clear technical plans.
- Strong collaboration, communication, mentorship, and leadership skills.
- Preferred: experience with cross-platform development.
- Preferred: experience building or operating creative serving infrastructure for digital advertising, including video or interactive creative.
- Preferred: experience with machine learning and generative AI in advertising, including ranking, retrieval, or optimization.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with three office days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and one flex day; remote work permitted up to four weeks per year.
- Equity and comprehensive benefits.
- Access to enterprise AI tools.
- Mentorship, professional growth, and a collaborative workplace.
Tech Stack
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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.