Senior Engineering Manager - Growth Kitchener-Waterloo, ON; Toronto, ON

Faire; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a dynamic manager to lead their Growth business unit, focusing on delivering impactful features to customers. This role involves managing a cross-functional team of engineers, ensuring efficient development practices, and driving operational improvements. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, a passion for programming, and experience in leading teams to success. Join a mission-driven organization that empowers entrepreneurs and leverages technology to create a positive economic impact in local communities. If you are resourceful, curious, and ready to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Equity

Flexible Remote Work

Health Benefits

Entrepreneurial Environment

Qualifications

• Passion for programming and a strong technical background.
• Experience leading teams and driving contributions.

Responsibilities

• Manage a cross-functional team developing growth product solutions.
• Lead scoping and sprint planning within teams.

Skills

Programming

Problem Solving

Leadership

Software Development

Technical Background

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Equivalent Industry Experience

Tools

Machine Learning

A/B Testing

Job description

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these massive entities. 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 that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. 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

At Faire we have a business unit focused on Retailer Growth. It oversees core growth strategies from top of funnel, to onboarding, to helping Retailers get up and running to be successful on Faire. We are looking to hire a dynamic manager to be part of our Growth business unit to focus on delivering growth features to our customers.

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.

What you’ll do

• Directly manage a large cross functional team of engineers developing our growth product solutions.
• Lead scoping and sprint planning within your teams.
• Understand, triage and assign defects to be solved along with feature work.
• Identify and scope infrastructure or tooling changes to impact efficiency and/or quality.
• Dive into the architecture, designs and code in order to lead your team effectively.
• Lead contributor and owner of process and team structure decisions.
• Directly impact our ability to grow quickly while improving operational efficiencies.

Qualifications

• A passion for programming and solving problems with code.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• A strong technical background and you are still capable of using it every day.
• A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems.
• A track record of leading teams to higher levels of contribution.
• A track record of assisting team members to achieve higher levels of impact in their careers.
• Capable and willing to write software for a couple months as part of your onboarding.
• Still willing and able to get your hands dirty with software design, code creation, tooling, etc.

Bonus/Nice to haves

• Strength and experience in running engineering teams using metrics.
• Experience working with marketplaces and/or shipping problem space.
• Have lead through other managers.

Salary range

Canada: the pay range for this role is $184,000 - $253,000 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.

This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule - Faire employees will be expected to go into the office 2 days per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, effective the week of January 13, 2025. Additionally, in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.

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 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.

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.