Staff Software Engineer - Growth Platform

Help build the engine behind Faire’s growth:

Faire is building the operating system for local retail. Every day, hundreds of thousands of independent retailers and brands rely on Faire to discover products, grow their businesses, and compete with large marketplaces. Growth is a company-level priority at Faire because every improvement in acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and expansion directly impacts the success of local entrepreneurs around the world.

We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the technical vision and evolution of Faire’s Growth Platform - the communication systems, targeting capabilities, experimentation infrastructure and developer tooling that power growth across the company.

This is not just a builder role, you will set technical direction, shape strategy, and lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that accelerate Growth teams across multiple product areas. You’ll partner deeply with Product Engineers to translate ambiguous opportunities into scalable platform systems.

You’re excited about this role because…

• You want to build foundational systems that accelerate growth across multiple teams and product surfaces
• You enjoy solving challenging technical problems related to messaging, communication, personalization, targeting, and developer velocity
• You care deeply about internal customer experience and enjoy building tools, platforms, and workflows that make other teams dramatically more effective
• You get excited about creating leverage through platforms, abstractions, and tooling rather than only shipping individual features
• You get excited about driving large business impact in a Growth environment.

What you'll do:

• Lead the design and evolution of Faire’s Growth Platform capabilities, including communication and messaging infrastructure, targeting systems, developer tooling, and reusable growth primitives
• Partner closely with internal platform users to understand pain points, improve developer experience, and create highly usable self-serve growth tooling
• Architect scalable systems that enable teams to rapidly launch, validate, and scale growth initiatives
• Build frameworks and abstractions that reduce the cost and complexity of launching new growth initiatives
• Influence product and business strategy through deep technical insight and a strong understanding of growth levers
• Improve developer productivity and organizational efficiency by evolving platform tooling, frameworks, and operational processes
• Mentor and guide engineers across teams, raising the bar for technical quality, systems thinking, and business impact
• Operate as a cross-team technical leader, aligning multiple stakeholders and driving execution across organizational boundaries

We’re excited about you because you:

• Have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Have experience building high-scale platforms, infrastructure, or reusable systems that enabled other engineering teams to move faster
• Demonstrate strong internal customer empathy and a track record of building platforms or tooling with high adoption and strong developer experience
• Have strong experience in either:
• Backend development (e.g., Kotlin, Java, C#, APIs, databases, distributed systems), or
• Frontend development (e.g., React, TypeScript/JavaScript, modern UI frameworks, performance optimization).
• Have consistently led large, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives with measurable impact
• Have strong experience with experimentation, A/B testing, and data-driven product development.
• Think in terms of systems, leverage, and long-term scalability, not just feature delivery.
• Are comfortable defining technical direction in loosely defined problem spaces.
• Demonstrate strong product and business acumen, connecting engineering decisions to growth outcomes.
• Have a track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team.
• Are highly autonomous, strategic, and execution-oriented in fast-moving environments.
• Have a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals or equivalent industry experience.

Technologies we use & teach:

(Experience in similar technologies is welcomed)

• Backend: Kotlin, Java, JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey, MySQL, CockroachDB, AWS
• Frontend: React, TypeScript/JavaScript
• Infrastructure & Data: HTTP, JSON, Protocol Buffers, experimentation frameworks, analytics tooling

Salary range:

Canada: the pay range for this role is $190,500 - $262,000 per year.