Staff Engineer - Growth Platform

About Faire

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.

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 scalabl