Staff Engineer - Growth Platform

Faire•Toronto, ON

9d•CA$190,500 - CA$262,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Faire is building the operating system for local retail. Every day, hundreds of thousands of independent retailers and brands rely on Faire to discover products, grow their businesses, and compete with large marketplaces. Growth is a company-level priority at Faire because every improvement in acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and expansion directly impacts the success of local entrepreneurs around the world. We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help lead the technical vision and evolution of Faire’s Growth Platform - the communication systems, targeting capabilities, experimentation infrastructure and developer tooling that power growth across the company. This is not just a builder role, you will set technical direction, shape strategy, and lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that accelerate Growth teams across multiple product areas. You’ll partner deeply with Product Engineers to translate ambiguous opportunities into scalable platform systems.

Requirements

Have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Have experience building high-scale platforms, infrastructure, or reusable systems that enabled other engineering teams to move faster
Demonstrate strong internal customer empathy and a track record of building platforms or tooling with high adoption and strong developer 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 consistently led large, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives with measurable impact
Have strong experience with experimentation, A/B testing, and data-driven product development.
Think in terms of systems, leverage, and long-term scalability, not just feature delivery.
Are comfortable defining technical direction in loosely defined problem spaces.
Demonstrate strong product and business acumen, connecting engineering decisions to growth outcomes.
Have a track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team.
Are highly autonomous, strategic, and execution-oriented in fast-moving environments.
Have a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals or equivalent industry experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience in similar technologies is welcomed

Responsibilities

Lead the design and evolution of Faire’s Growth Platform capabilities, including communication and messaging infrastructure, targeting systems, developer tooling, and reusable growth primitives
Partner closely with internal platform users to understand pain points, improve developer experience, and create highly usable self-serve growth tooling
Architect scalable systems that enable teams to rapidly launch, validate, and scale growth initiatives
Build frameworks and abstractions that reduce the cost and complexity of launching new growth initiatives
Influence product and business strategy through deep technical insight and a strong understanding of growth levers
Improve developer productivity and organizational efficiency by evolving platform tooling, frameworks, and operational processes
Mentor and guide engineers across teams, raising the bar for technical quality, systems thinking, and business impact
Operate as a cross-team technical leader, aligning multiple stakeholders and driving execution across organizational boundaries