Staff Engineer, Backend Developer

Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. 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 businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.

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.

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.

Staff Software Engineer – Growth Platform
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.

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:

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…