About Faire
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is
local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than
Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these
massive entities. 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 this role:
Our mobile apps are crucial to our vision: Empowering entrepreneurs to chase
their dreams. We want to empower entrepreneurs to run their business from their
pocket through a world class mobile app.
We care about stunning design, great UX, and good engineering practices -- we
love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, responsive, and
performant. We build minimum viable products, deploy to production weekly, A/B
test customer-facing changes, listen to the data, and iterate.
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join our discovery team which drives our
market growth by tuning Faire for each retailer, showing products that inspire
their business growth and helping them to understand what will sell in their
segment, and making it easy for them to expand into brands they may not have
otherwise found.
As a Staff iOS Engineer, you’ll collaborate with us to:
- Work with a talented team of backend and frontend/mobile developers to
deliver a compelling product to our end users.
- Work with the larger group of mobile developers at Faire to solidify and grow
our mobile architecture.
- Coach and mentor mobile engineers in a fast paced & hyper growth environment.
- Raise the bar on the quality of our mobile apps through broad testability
strategies.
- Drive our technical strategy around a unified architecture
We're excited about you because you have:
- 5+ years of iOS experience having worked on multiple apps shipped to the app
store
- Experience shipping and maintaining a mobile app over an extended period of
time - working with mobile apps at scale or having helped apps scale to
millions of users is a plus!
- A passion for programming alongside strong problem solving and architecture
abilities
- A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve
real problems
- Previous experience on a platform team and a passion for scaling systems for
a growing organization and user base
- A high bar for engineering excellence
- Curiosity to drive engineering impact outside of the iOS tech stack
Technologies we use and teach:
- Swift
- SwiftUI, UIKit
- Swift Concurrency
- Protocol Buffers
- Bazel
Salary range:
Canada: the pay range for this role is $184,000 - $253,000 per year.
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.
Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 2 days per week on Tuesdays
and Thursdays. Effective starting in January 2026, employees will be expected to
go into the office on a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or
Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work
remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology
positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in
the job posting.
Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from
the posting date.
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
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 Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers,
you can read more on our blog [https://blog.faire.com/].
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.
Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable
accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services,
programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the
recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be
accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all
applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request
reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form
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