Senior Software Engineer - Design Systems - Frontend

Faire; Kitchener, Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Faire is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to design and scale our design system, delivering reusable components across Faire’s web surfaces. You’ll champion accessibility, performance, and testing strategies, collaborating with Product Design and cross-functional teams.

Lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and help shape the frontend architecture while accelerating design with AI tools. You’ll join a hybrid team in Canada, contributing to a scalable, high-quality frontend platform

Qualifications

• 4+ years frontend engineering experience with React/TypeScript/HTML/CSS.
• Strong collaboration with Product Design and cross-functional teams.
• Experience building or maintaining a design system or shared UI platform.
• Strong WCAG accessibility knowledge.
• Ability to lead technical projects and influence direction beyond your team.
• Passion for high-quality, scalable, maintainable code.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reusable components across Faire's web surfaces.
• Champion accessibility and performance across shared components.
• Establish and maintain testing strategies and quality gates for the design system.
• Partner with engineers to drive adoption and evolve the system based on usage.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the frontend architecture.
• Accelerate design process via AI-assisted tooling.
• Mentor other engineers and participate in reviews to raise frontend craftsmanship.

Skills

React

TypeScript

HTML

CSS

Collaboration

Design system

Accessibility WCAG

Leadership

Bachelor's degree

REST APIs

Kotlin backend

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or equivalent

Tools

Kotlin

REST APIs

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Design Systems - Frontend

Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.

We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you’ll collaborate with us to:

• Design and build reusable, high-quality components that scale across Faire's web surfaces
• Champion accessibility and performance best practices across shared components
• Establish and maintain testing strategies and quality gates for the design system
• Partner with engineers across the company to drive adoption and evolve the system based on real usage
• Contribute to the technical direction of our frontend architecture
• Accelerate design process via AI-assisted tooling
• Mentor other engineers, participate in design and code reviews, and raise the bar for frontend craftsmanship across the org

We're excited about you because you have:

• 4+ years of professional frontend engineering experience, with deep expertise in React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• Strong collaboration skills and experience partnering closely with Product Design and cross-functional engineering teams
• Experience building or maintaining a design system, component library, or shared UI platform used by multiple product teams
• A strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG)
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects from conception through execution, and to influence technical direction beyond your immediate team
• A passion for creating high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code, and for making other engineers more productive
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• REST and streaming APIs, integrating with backend services written in Kotlin

Salary Range

Canada: the pay range for this role is $160,000 to $220,000 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.

Faire uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen and select applicants for this position.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy.

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)

Canada Demographic Questions

We believe the future is local. At the core of that future are our customers, a diverse and unique community of entrepreneurs who have taken a chance on themselves. We’re inspired by these dreamers who work today and every day for a better future for their communities. We are committed to building a community and sense of belonging here at Faire that reflects the customers we serve. We want to ensure that we hold ourselves to that commitment externally and internally because differences in perspectives, experiences, and ideas are what make us successful.

Below is a set of completely voluntary demographic questions that are a part of our Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. All responses are anonymous, self-disclosed and will be kept confidential. Responses will be securely stored and will not be used to identify any individual employee. If you choose to fill out these questions, the responses will be used (in aggregate only ) to help us identify areas for improvement in our process. Your responses, or your choice to not respond, will not be associated with your specific application and will not , in any way, be used in the hiring decision.