Product Engineer - Brand - Fullstack, Backend or Frontend

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>About Faire</strong></span></p> <p>Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. 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 businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.</p> <p>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.</p></div><p><strong>About the role:</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>As a Product Engineer on the Brand pillar, you will be responsible for planning and building features end-to-end, working alongside product, design, and data to achieve our mission.</p> <p><strong>You’re excited about this role because…</strong></p> <ul> <li>You are excited about learning how our customers' businesses work, and what they need in order to succeed</li> <li>You are entrepreneurial and data-driven, with a strong product sense</li> <li>You effectively balance your excitement for building features with a focus on the long-term maintainability of those features</li> <li>You want to use technology to help your local independent retailers and brands succeed</li> <li>You want to experiment with the best AI productivity tools on the market to help accelerate customer impact</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and marketing to contribute significantly to the success of the business or the engineering platform</li> <li>Identify and capitalize on new opportunities, overseeing complex multi-phase projects across multiple teams and platforms from concept to implementation</li> <li>Build features across multiple stacks, potentially including Backend, Frontend, and Mobile</li> <li>Optimize web applications for peak performance and scalability, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, fast, and scalable code</li> <li>Mentor fellow engineers on both technical and product judgement</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>2+ years of experience</li> <li>Proficient in at least one of Java, Kotlin, or JavaScript.</li> <li>Comfortable in agentic coding tools</li> <li>Familiar with HTML, CSS, Typescript, and frameworks/libraries like React, <a href="http://next.js">Next.js</a>, etc.</li> <li>Experience driving product improvements end to end, including deciding what problems are worth solving and how to solve them</li> <li>A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience</li> <li>A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;<strong>Technologies we use and teach:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Kotlin, Java, Javascript</li> <li>JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey</li> <li>React, NextJS</li> <li>HTTP, JSON, and Protocol Buffers</li> <li>MySQL, CockroachDB</li> <li>AWS</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Salary range:</strong></h4> <p>Canada: the pay range for this role is $129,500 - $<span data-sheets-root="1">178,000</span> per year.&nbsp;</p> <p>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.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em data-stringify-type="italic"