Senior Product Engineer - Retailer Experience & Growth - Fullstack, Backend or Frontend

Faire
Waterloo, Toronto
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Collaboration","Ownership","Strategic thinking"]

Senior backend-focused engineer responsible for designing and building scalable growth platforms powering experimentation, targeting, and lifecycle automation. You will architect infrastructure enabling multiple product teams to run experiments safely at scale, build APIs and services, collaborate with data science, and improve tooling, reliability, and performance across a marketplace-focused growth stack.

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Senior Product Engineer - Retailer Experience & Growth - Fullstack, Backend or Frontend

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Job Summary

Senior backend-focused engineer responsible for designing and building scalable growth platforms powering experimentation, targeting, and lifecycle automation. You will architect infrastructure enabling multiple product teams to run experiments safely at scale, build APIs and services, collaborate with data science, and improve tooling, reliability, and performance across a marketplace-focused growth stack.
Location: Waterloo, Toronto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and build scalable backend systems that power experimentation, segmentation, and targeting.
  • •Design growth infrastructure that enables product teams to ship experiments safely and independently.
  • •Build APIs and services that support personalization, incentives, lifecycle triggers, and growth workflows.
  • •Partner with Data Science and Analytics to ensure accurate experiment assignment, event tracking, and metric integrity.
  • •Improve experimentation velocity by reducing friction in tooling, deployment, and analysis.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
  • •Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
  • •Built or significantly contributed to experimentation platforms, or growth infrastructure.
  • •Fluent in backend technologies such as Kotlin, Java, or similar JVM-based systems.
  • •Deep experience designing APIs and working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, CockroachDB).
Experience:5+ yearsMarketplaceE-commerce
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationCollaborationOwnershipStrategic thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KotlinJavaGuiceJerseyHibernateMySQLCockroachDBAWSDockerHTTPRESTJSONProtocol BuffersFeature flaggingA/B testingTraffic ramping

Company Brief

Faire
Operates a wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers with emerging and established brands, providing ordering, logistics, and payment solutions to help small businesses discover and stock unique products.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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