Senior Back-end Engineer (Remote)

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About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — there are over 2 million independent retailers in North America and Europe doing more than $2 trillion in revenue. 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 the role

Our engineering team owns the code that makes our marketplace work. We care about good engineering practice and love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, and can scale to millions of users. We build minimum viable products, deploy to production multiple times per day, A/B test customer-facing changes, listen to the data, and iterate.

Faire is building engineering teams both in-office and remotely. Our remote engineering office will be composed of teams that are entirely remote, including managers! You will interview, onboard, and work 100% remotely. We’re excited to embrace a model that optimizes for team cohesion and productivity regardless of an individual’s work preferences.

What you'll do

  • Deliver core features of our Kotlin server
  • Design and build new APIs used by our web site and mobile app
  • Write integration tests for everything
  • Share ownership of our product
  • Help the product team continuously improve our customer's experience

Qualifications

  • A passion for programming and solving problems with code
  • A familiarity with OOP languages such as Java or C#
  • 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 tackle real problems

Technologies we use and teach

  • Kotlin, Java 16
  • JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey
  • HTTP, JSON, and Protocol Buffers
  • MySQL
  • AWS

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 an owner of the business and 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 Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Toronto, London, New York, LA, and Sao Paulo. 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.

More Information on Faire
Faire operates in the eCommerce industry. The company is located in San Francisco, CA, atlanta, GA, Salt Lake City, UT, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA. Faire was founded in 2017. It has 1200 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Friends outside of work, Eat lunch together, Intracompany committees, OKR operational model, Team based strategic planning and Group brainstorming sessions. To see all 28 open jobs at Faire, click here.
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