Staff Product Engineer - Brand

About the role

Our mission in the Brand pillar is to make it easy for Brands to create high-quality product listings on Faire, keep them up to date, and get them in front of retailers. Having access to well-curated catalogs of products lets Main Street retailers compete with big-box stores and we’re responsible for the first step in that journey.

As a Staff Product Engineer on the Brand pillar, you will be responsible for helping teams execute on our hardest features, coaching engineers, and working alongside product, design, and data to achieve our mission.

You’ll work at the pillar level, supporting different teams from quarter to quarter as priorities shift. You’ll support these teams on both short-term execution and long-term strategy.

You’re excited about this role because…

You are excited to learn how our customers' businesses work, and what they need in order to succeed

You want to help engineers learn more about the product and design domains

You are entrepreneurial and data-driven, with a strong product sense

You effectively balance your excitement for building features with a focus on the long-term maintainability of those features

You want to use technology to help your local independent retailers and brands succeed

You want to experiment with the best AI productivity tools on the market to help accelerate customer impact

What you'll do

Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and marketing to contribute significantly to the success of the business or the engineering platform

Identify and capitalize on new opportunities, overseeing complex multi-phase projects across multiple teams and platforms from concept to implementation

Build features across multiple stacks, potentially including Backend, Frontend, and Mobile

Optimize web applications for peak performance and scalability, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, fast, and scalable code

Mentor fellow engineers on both technical and product judgement

Qualifications

5+ years of experience

Proficient in at least one of Java, Kotlin, or JavaScript.

Comfortable in agentic coding tools

Familiar with HTML, CSS, Typescript, and frameworks/libraries like React, Next.js, etc.

Experience driving product improvements end to end, including deciding what problems are worth solving and how to solve them

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience

A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems

Technologies we use and teach

Kotlin, Java, Javascript

JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey

React, NextJS

HTTP, JSON, and Protocol Buffers

MySQL, CockroachDB

AWS

Salary Range

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

Faire uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen and select applicants for this position.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy.