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 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 build an infrastructure that supports state-of-the-art algorithms, while enhancing ads performance and relevance.
• You’ll optimize existing infrastructure for efficiency, speed, and accuracy.
• You’ll build strong cross functional partnerships with data science, 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
• You like to solve challenging problems related to a two-sided marketplace

Qualifications

• 7+ 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
• 3+ 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: The pay range for this role is $205,500 - 282,500 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.

Effective January 2025, Faire employees will be expected to go into the office 2 days per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting. 

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 ch