Staff Back-end Engineer - Search

Key Skills

Apache Solr, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Elasticsearch, ETL frameworks, HTTP acceleration, Java Programming, Kotlin, Lucene, Machine learning techniques, MySQL, XML-JSON

Job Description

Faire is using machine learning to change wholesale and help local retailers compete with Amazon and big box stores. Our experienced team of engineers and data scientists are developing solutions related to discovery, ranking, search, and recommendations - all with the goal of helping local retail thrive.

Our Engineering team in collaboration with the Data team owns a wide variety of machine learning systems that power the marketplace. 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.

As a leading technical member of the Search Back-end Infra team, this role will be responsible for developing next generation Search at Faire, unlocking new search retrieval and ranking applications while meeting industry benchmarks for the latency of our search experience.

You’re excited about this role because…

• You’ll be able to work on cutting-edge search query and understanding problems combining a wide variety of data about our retailers, brands and products
• You want to leverage machine learning to help local retailers and independent brands succeed
• You want to be a foundational team member of a fast growing company
• You like to solve challenging problems related to a two-sided marketplace

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience with search/query processing for product development
• Experience with traditional, semantic, and hybrid search frameworks (e.g. Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr, FAISS)
• Experience using machine learning systems for search
• Experience with search indexing and/or ETL pipeline systems
• Strong programming skills, including experience with the following
• Kotlin, Java 16
• JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey
• HTTP, JSON, and Protocol Buffers
• MySQL
• An excitement and willingness to learn new tools and techniques
• The ability to contribute to team strategy without supervision
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with others in a closely collaborative team environment

Salary Range

California / New York: the pay range for this role is $190,500-$262,000 per year.

Colorado / Washington / New Jersey: the pay range for this role is $171,000-$235,500 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.

Faire’s flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending on the role and needs of the team, Faire employees have the flexibility to choose how they work–whether that’s mainly in the office, remotely, or a mix of both. 

Roles that list only a country in the location are eligible for fully remote work in that country or in- office work at a Faire office in that country, provided employees are located in the registered country/province/state. Roles with only a city location are eligible for in-office or hybrid office work in that city. Our talent team will work with candidates to determine what locations and roles are eligible for each option.

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.