Senior Engineering Manager Job Toronto area,Ontario Canada,Software Development

Position: Senior Engineering Manager - Growth

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:

Post Graduate degree in management or business

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.

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 lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.

Faire provides equal employment…


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