Senior Software Engineer - Growth

CanadaHybrid

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.
Improve experimentation velocity by reducing friction in tooling, deployment, and analysis.
Ensure systems are reliable, observable, secure, and capable of operating at marketplace scale.
Establish best practices for experimentation guardrails, traffic allocation, and statistical integrity.
Influence technical direction across the Growth organization through platform design and architectural leadership

At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe.
experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
Are fluent in backend technologies such as Kotlin, Java, or similar JVM-based systems. Have deep
experience designing APIs and working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, CockroachDB).
Experience in marketplace, e-commerce, or two-sided platform environments.
Familiarity with statistical experimentation concepts (power, bias, sample sizing). •
Experience integrating with marketing automation, CRM, or lifecycle systems.
Experience with similar technologies is welcome - you don’t need experience with our exact stack.
Backend: Kotlin, Java, Guice, Jersey, Hibernate
Datastores: MySQL, CockroachDB
Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), Docker
APIs & Data: HTTP, REST, JSON, Protocol Buffers
Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day.