Senior Growth Engineer (Frontend or Backend)

Job Application for Senior Growth Engineer (Frontend or Backend) at Faire Senior Growth Engineer (Frontend or Backend) Kitchener-Waterloo, ON; Toronto, ON Apply 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 have a business unit focused on Retailer Growth that oversees core growth strategies from top of funnel, to onboarding, to helping Retailers get up and running to be successful on Faire. We are looking for a Senior Growth Engineer (Frontend or Backend) who thrives at the intersection of product, experimentation, and engineering. We are looking for someone who wants to own meaningful business outcomes and impact, not just ship features. Depending on your strengths, you may focus primarily on frontend or backend systems, but you will operate with end-to-end ownership of growth initiatives and measurable impact. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing to turn hypotheses into experiments, and experiments into scalable growth engines. What you’ll do: Own and deliver growth experiments end-to-end, from ideation to implementation and analysis. Build customer-facing features that improve funnel conversion, onboarding success, and engagement. Design and implement scalable APIs and services (backend focus) or intuitive, high-performance user interfaces (frontend focus). Partner with Data Science and Analytics to define success metrics and interpret experiment results. Contribute to experimentation frameworks and growth tooling infrastructure. Share ownership of product decisions and help shape growth strategy through technical insight. Write clean, secure, tested, and maintainable code that scales to millions of users. Help improve engineering quality, velocity, and operational efficiency within the Growth organization. We’re excited about you because you: Have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience. Have strong experience in either: Backend development (e.g., Kotlin, Java, C#, APIs, databases, distributed systems), or Frontend development (e.g., React, TypeScript/JavaScript, modern UI frameworks, performance optimization). Have shipped customer-facing features with measurable impact. Care deeply about experimentation, A/B testing, and data-informed decision making. Are comfortable working in fast-moving, hypothesis-driven environments. Take ownership and think beyond implementation, connecting technical decisions to business outcomes. Have a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals or equivalent industry experience. Are curious, resourceful, and excited to solve ambiguous problems. Bonus / Nice to haves: Experience working on growth, activation, onboarding, or monetization teams. Experience leading major growth initiatives or owning a growth surface area. Experience in marketplace, e-commerce, or B2B SaaS environments. Familiarity with experimentation platforms and feature flagging systems. Experience collaborating closely with Data Science or Analytics teams. Exposure to lifecycle marketing, CRM systems, or data pipeline integrations. Technologies we use & teach: (Experience in similar technologies is welcomed) Backend: Kotlin, Java, JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey, MySQL, CockroachDB, AWS Frontend: React, TypeScript/JavaScript Infrastructure & Data: HTTP, JSON, Protocol Buffers, experimentation frameworks, analytics tooling Salary range: Canada: the pay range for this role is $156,000 - $214,500 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. Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). 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. 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 chase their dreams. Every member of our team is taking part in the founding process. We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners. We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy. We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality. Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog . Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. 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