6 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$156k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build scalable backend systems for experimentation, segmentation, and targeting.
- Design growth infrastructure that allows product teams to ship experiments safely and independently.
- Build APIs and services for personalization, incentives, lifecycle triggers, and growth workflows.
- Partner with Data Science and Analytics on experiment assignment, event tracking, and metric integrity.
- Improve experimentation velocity by reducing friction in tooling, deployment, and analysis.
- Build reliable, observable, secure systems 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.
Requirements
- At least five years of backend software engineering experience.
- Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Experience building or significantly contributing to experimentation platforms or growth infrastructure.
- Fluency in Kotlin, Java, or similar JVM-based backend technologies.
- Deep experience designing APIs and working with relational databases such as MySQL or CockroachDB.
- Understanding of event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and instrumentation best practices.
- Experience with system reliability, observability, and performance.
- Ability to translate ambiguous growth requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions.
- Strong product instincts and understanding of how platform decisions affect business outcomes.
- Marketplace, e-commerce, or two-sided platform experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with statistical experimentation concepts such as power, bias, and sample sizing is a plus.
- Experience integrating marketing automation, CRM, or lifecycle systems is a plus.
- Exposure to real-time personalization or recommendation systems is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with three office days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and one flex day on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday.
- Hybrid employees may work remotely for up to four weeks per year.
- Eligible for equity and benefits.
- Faire offers reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process.
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.