Senior Fullstack & Data Engineer

About this role:

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Fullstack Engineer with data engineering experience to join our Brand pillar. In this role, you will be a critical cross-functional team member dedicated to helping brands to publish their products and retailers discover supplies for their stores. Our team is dedicated to making Faire the best place for retailers to evaluate products and brands by ensuring they have the information they need to confidently discover and evaluate products for their store.

What you’ll do:

• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, engineering managers, and other stakeholders to significantly contribute to the success of Faire's business and engineering platform.
• Product Ownership: Share ownership of our product, contributing to ongoing improvements that enhance the customer experience.
• Technical Leadership: Help define the team's technical direction and roadmap, influencing the overall strategic direction of our engineering efforts.
• Technical Improvements: Identify, prioritize, and drive technical improvements through multi-month projects that enhance the platform's performance and scalability.
• Framework Development: Contribute to setting the technical direction of our server-driven UI framework. Design and execute engineering solutions that align with framework goals, ensuring scalability and broad adoption.
• Backend Development: Unblock self by contributing to backend development, specially presentation layer, of server-driven UI functionalities and applications.
• Data Science and Data Engineering: build ETL pipelines for Data Science needs, build new models using prompt engineering and RAG solutions.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize horizontal frameworks for peak performance and scalability. Work with state-of-the-art technologies such as Next.js, applying in-depth knowledge of frontend and backend performance techniques.
• Mentorship: Mentor fellow developers by sharing industry best practices and fostering an environment of continuous learning and growth.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in fullstack engineering
• 1+ years of experience in data engineering
• Proficient in HTML, CSS, Typescript, and frameworks/libraries like React
• Solid knowledge of Kotlin, Python and backend frameworks like Hibernate, Spring
• Extensive experience in fullstack development, with a strong understanding of modern web technologies.
• Strong understanding of web performance optimization techniques 
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, from conception through execution.
• A passion for creating high-quality, scalable, and performant code.
• 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, Kotlin
• React, Next.js 
• Jest, cypress.io
• Python, Airflow
• Jupiter Notebook or NotebookML (optional)

Salary range:

Canada: the pay range for this role is $156,000 - $214,500 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.