Senior Backend Engineer - Ads ML System
About this Role:
Faire’s Ads teams are building the next generation of marketplace intelligence — powering personalized discovery and efficient ad delivery for our brands and retailers. Our systems connect the right products with the right buyers through intelligent pricing, auction mechanisms, and large-scale retrieval and ranking pipelines.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll take ownership of the core algorithms and infrastructure that shape the way our ads and search systems decide what to show, to whom, and at what price. You’ll partner with Data Science and Infrastructure teams to design training workflows, deploy models, and operate low-latency inference services, owning the end-to-end model lifecycle (feature generation → training → evaluation → deployment → monitoring) for Ads retrieval, ranking, and pricing.
This role offers a rare opportunity to shape both product and technical direction in a fast-moving, high-impact area at Faire.
What You’ll Do:
We’re Excited About You Because You Have:
5+ years in backend systems, including 2+ years in designing, deploying, and scaling ML inference and online serving systems.
Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, or similar object-oriented languages; comfort with distributed systems, service design, and performance optimization.
Hands-on experience with model training pipelines and operating production online inference/serving, including deploying models to real-time scoring paths on ads/search/ranking.
Strong communication skills and a track record of partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, from DS to PM, to deliver complex systems.
Curiosity and a drive to understand complex market dynamics; passion for applying data and algorithms to real-world business problems.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
Technologies We Use and Teach:
DB, Elasticsearch
Salary Range:
Canada: the pay range for this role is $156,000 - $214,500per 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 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
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