Senior Backend Engineer - Developer Productivity

Faire; Kitchener; On-site; CAD 156,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Toronto is looking for a backend engineer to enhance developer tooling and streamline workflows. You will collaborate on initiatives to reduce bottlenecks and improve reliability. The position offers a salary range of $156,000 - $195,000 per year, hybrid work, equity, and various benefits.

Benefits

Equity

Health benefits

Flexible remote work

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in back-end development.
• Passion for developer tooling and automation.
• Strong collaboration skills across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features for internal developer tooling.
• Identify pain points in workflows and design improvements.
• Experiment with AI-powered automation for development.

Skills

Back-end development

Developer experience

AI / LLMs

CI / CD systems

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Bazel build system

Docker

AWS

Job description

Overview

About the role :

Imagine a world where every engineer at Faire can ship code faster, deploy confidently, and test seamlessly—because of the tools you build. Our Developer Productivity team makes that vision a reality, and we're looking for a backend engineer to help take it even further. In this role, you will directly lead initiatives that streamline our engineers development lifecycle. Your work will remove bottlenecks, improve reliability, and enable engineers across Faire to build at incredible speed.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain high-quality features for internal developer tooling.
• Identify pain points in engineering workflows and design both immediate fixes and long-term improvements.
• Experiment with LLMs and AI-powered automation to redefine how engineers write, test, and deploy code.
• Enhance the reliability and speed of local development environments, CI / CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
• Contribute to the platform roadmap, using data-driven insights to set priorities and measure impact.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience in back-end development (Java, Kotlin, or similar).
• Passion for developer experience, tooling, and automation.
• Interest in AI / LLMs and their applications in developer productivity.
• Experience with Bazel build system
• Strong understanding of CI / CD systems and cloud infrastructure (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Docker, AWS, OCI, or similar).
• Ability to collaborate across teams, solve complex engineering problems, and drive efficiency.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring new tools and technologies to enhance development workflows.
• Bonus point for experience working with monorepos and large-scale codebase management.

Salary and location

Salary range :
Canada : the pay range for this role is $156,000 - $195,000 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.

Work policy

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