Senior Backend Engineer - Brand Platform (Kotlin, AI)

Faire; Kitchener, Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 156,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Hybrid work model

Remote up to 4 weeks/year

Job summary

Faire is a technology wholesale platform that connects independent retailers worldwide, offering tools to manage listings, orders, and communications. As a Senior Backend Engineer on Brand Platform, you will help lay a strong foundation for customer-facing teams and scale systems to millions of users, with a focus on AI-enabled workflows and data model optimization.

You’ll work on Kotlin servers, APIs, and collaborative product improvements, in a hybrid environment with strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Passion for programming and solving problems with code.
• Examples of using AI to automate large-scale quality improvements of existing code bases.
• Deep understanding of NewSQL relational databases like CockroachDB.
• Experience improving engineering productivity across multiple teams.
• Curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems.

Responsibilities

• Build out AI enablement for common tasks on the team.
• Optimize the performance of our highest contention data models.
• Deliver core features of our Kotlin server.
• Design and build new APIs used by our website and mobile app.
• Help the product team continuously improve our customer’s experience.

Skills

AI enablement

NewSQL databases

Engineering productivity

Curiosity for new tools

Problem solving

Tools

Kotlin

Java

JUnit

Hibernate

Guice

Jersey

HTTP

JSON

Protocol Buffers

MySQL

CockroachDB

AWS

Job description

Faire is a technology wholesale platform that connects independent retailers worldwide, offering tools to manage listings, orders, and communications. As a Senior Backend Engineer on Brand Platform, you will help lay a strong foundation for customer-facing teams and scale systems to millions of users, with a focus on AI-enabled workflows and data model optimization.

You’ll work on Kotlin servers, APIs, and collaborative product improvements, in a hybrid environment with strong emphasis on