Senior Staff Back-end Engineer - Ads

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these massive entities. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role:

At Faire, we are building an advertising solution to help brands boost their visibility in the marketplace and acquire new customers. The Ads Engineering team is part of a small and fast-moving 0 - 1 product development team. We partner closely with Data Science to improve ads relevance and delivery efficiency, collaborate with Search Infrastructure to improve the capability and performance of the core retrieval and ranking engine that powers both search and ads, and work with our analytics engineering team to build reliable logging and measurement tools for use across the company.

As a Sr. Staff Backend Engineer on the Ads team, you will be responsible for developing the next iterations of our ads products with improved retrieval speed, relevance, and scale while also helping us expand our product portfolio to new surfaces, and formats, while building a great advertising experience for our brands.

You’re excited about this role because…

• You will own the end to end technical roadmap for a fast growing, business critical ads product
• You’ll be able to work on cutting-edge search query and understanding problems combining a wide variety of data about our retailers, brands and products
• You’ll develop an infrastructure that support state-of-the-art search algorithms, while enhancing search performance and relevance.
• You’ll optimize existing search infrastructure for efficiency, speed, and accuracy.
• You’ll build strong cross functional partnerships with data science, analysts, product managers, and machine learning engineers to understand, prioritize and deliver on critical business needs
• You want to leverage machine learning to help local retailers and independent brands succeed
• You want to be a foundational team member of a fast growing company, and mentor ads engineers to tackle complex projects spanning product infrastructure and Data science systems.
• You like to solve challenging problems related to a two-sided marketplace

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, with 3+ years as a technical leader leading complex cross-departmental projects that impact critical business metrics
• 5+ years of industry experience working across components of an ads system which may include Ads Delivery, Ads formats, and Ads Reporting and measurement
• Preferably, you have helped scale an ads product from 0 to a major portfolio of products within a larger tech organization
• Familiarity with machine learning techniques and experience partnering with data scientists and machine learning engineers to deliver impactful ads products
• The ability to contribute and execute on team strategy through others without supervision
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with others in a closely collaborative team environment

 

Salary range:

San Francisco / New York: the pay range for this role is $253,000-$347,500 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.

_This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule - Faire employees will be expected to go into the office 2 days per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, effective the week of January 13, 2025. Additionally, in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.

Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date._

Why you’ll love working at Faire

• We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is taking part in the founding process.
• We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
• We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
• We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog.

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form)