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Staff Software Engineer - Code Authoring

Faire
Kitchener, CAN
Senior
USD 190500-262000 / year
Discovered 4 days ago
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Qualifications

  • Extensive experience designing, building, and running distributed backend systems in production, including finding and permanently fixing problems at scale.
  • Experience owning the design of developer tools, CI/CD systems, or internal platforms that other engineering teams build on and hundreds of engineers use, and making design decisions that span several teams
  • Hands-on experience building on large language models and coding agents: running agents, giving them tools, checking their output, and tracking what they do and what they cost. You use AI coding tools every day.
  • Experience running services with uptime targets: defining SLAs, building monitoring and alerting, and owning incidents for systems other developers depend on.
  • Good judgment on performance and cost tradeoffs, with a record of making a system cheaper to run without making it worse.
  • A record of mentoring engineers and raising the level of the teams you have worked on, both on your immediate team and across the organization.
  • Strong communication skills; ability to bring disparate groups of people to a shared understanding.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
  • Nice to have
  • An advanced understanding of Kotlin; working knowledge of Python.
  • Experience running workloads across more than one cloud provider.
  • Technologies we use & teach
  • (Experience in similar technologies is welcomed)
  • Backend: Kotlin, Java, JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey, MySQL, CockroachDB, AWS
  • Frontend: React, TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Infrastructure & Data: Python, HTTP, JSON, Protocol Buffers, experimentation frameworks, analytics tooling

Salary range

Canada: the pay range for this role is $190,500 - $262,000 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 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and 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.

Why you’ll love working at Faire

Move fast: You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.

Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day.

Best in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft and about helping you grow in yours.

Real rewards. Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work.

Belonging: We're intentional about building an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success.

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.

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 ( https://bit.ly/faire-form)

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For information about the type of personal data Faire collects from applicants, as well as your choices regarding the data collected about you, please visit Faire’s Privacy Notice (https://www.faire.com/privacy)

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