Faire
Staff Backend Engineer - Ads Formats
Toronto, ON · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$191k-$262kDetected 1 day ago
JavaKotlinFull-Stack DevelopmentRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBAWSKubernetesDatadogMachine LearningData ScienceA/B TestingLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- The Ads Supply pod grows Faire's Ads business by expanding where, how, and in what format ads show up.
- Almost all of Faire's ads today are promoted product listings, and we'll unlock top-of-market opportunities for our advertisers with premium creative formats.
- Invent what comes next: Conceptualize, prototype, and run experiments on new ad format ideas, drawing on market trends, user behavior, and advertiser needs to find the opportunities with real business impact.
Responsibilities
- Build the systems behind every format: Design highly automated systems for ad format serving, optimization, and A/B testing that maximize business outcomes.
- Lay the foundations for future formats: Build the framework-level solutions that make new formats faster to ship and deepen how well we understand our users.
- Drive cross-functional impact: Operate as a product builder who brings customer understanding to the work, partnering closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive, high-impact solutions.
- Design highly automated systems for ad format serving, optimization, and A/B testing that maximize business outcomes.
- Operate as a product builder who brings customer understanding to the work, partnering closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive, high-impact solutions.
- As a technical leader, you'll own building the high-scale, low-latency systems that serve and render premium formats like video and brand creative across every surface and device.
- Move fast: You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years as a technical leader driving complex, cross-team projects.
- Deep expertise in building and scaling ad formats or similar user-facing content delivery systems.
- Excellent programming and system design skills, with a proven track record of leading and operating highly available, high-performance, low-latency backend systems at scale.
- AI-native, using modern AI tooling as a core part of how you deliver impact and embedding AI best practices into your daily workflow.
- A product builder who understands customers deeply, helps shape what gets built, and turns ambiguous business problems into clear product and technical direction.
- Strong collaboration, mentorship, and leadership: a compelling vision, clear communication, and the ability to drive concurrent projects and influence strategy with a collaborative leadership style.
Nice to have
- Experience with cross-platform development.
- Technologies we use and teach:
- Backend: Kotlin, Java 16, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey
- Search and data: Elasticsearch, FAISS, Redis, DynamoDB
- Communication: Protocol Buffers, HTTP, JSON
- Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Buildkite, Datadog
- Why you'll love working at Faire
Skills
- Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local.
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Compensation
- Canada: the pay range for this role is $190,500 - $262,000 per year.
- 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.
- Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.
Benefits
- a compelling vision, clear communication, and the ability to drive concurrent projects and influence strategy with a collaborative leadership style.
- Own the technical vision: Define the end-to-end architecture for our next-generation ad formats, including a unified serving layer that keeps the experience fast, scalable, and reliable across surfaces and devices.
- Mentor and lead: Guide and upskill other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
- This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Company info
- You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.
- You'll also set the technical direction for ad formats at Faire and shape the roadmap for what we build next.
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