Staff Software Engineer - Growth Platform
at Faire
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON; Toronto, ON, hybrid, staff, full time, CAD 1,90,500–2,62,000 / year, 8+ years
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- Java
- Hibernate
- Guice
- HTTP
- JSON
- React
- CockroachDB
- Kotlin
- TypeScript
- JUnit
- MySQL
- JavaScript
- Jersey
- Protocol Buffers
- AWS
About the role
* You want to build foundational systems that accelerate growth across multiple teams and product surfaces * You enjoy solving challenging technical problems related to messaging, communication, personalization, targeting, and developer velocity * You care deeply about internal customer experience and enjoy building tools, platforms, and workflows that make other teams dramatically more effective * You get excited about creating leverage through platforms, abstractions, and tooling rather than only shipping individual features * You get excited about driving large business impact in a Growth environment.
What you would do
* 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
We’re excited about you because you:
* 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.
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