Staff Backend Engineer - Ads Formats

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years as a technical leader driving complex, cross-team projects.

Deep expertise in building and scaling ad formats or similar user-facing content delivery systems.

Excellent programming and system design skills, with a proven track record of leading and operating highly available, high-performance, low-latency backend systems at scale.

AI-native, using modern AI tooling as a core part of how you deliver impact and embedding AI best practices into your daily workflow.

A product builder who understands customers deeply, helps shape what gets built, and turns ambiguous business problems into clear product and technical direction.

Experience with cross-platform development.

Canada: the pay range for this role is $190,500 - $262,000 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 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:

The Ads Supply pod grows Faire's Ads business by expanding where, how, and in what format ads show up.

Almost all of Faire's ads today are promoted product listings, and we'll unlock top-of-market opportunities for our advertisers with premium creative formats.

As a technical leader, you'll own building the high-scale, low-latency systems that serve and render premium formats like video and brand creative across every surface and device.

Working hands-on across the full stack and co-shaping the experience with Product and Design, you'll unify creative serving, formats, and rendering into one cohesive system, partnering closely with Ads Delivery and Ads Bidding and enabling fast, measurable experimentation.

You'll also set the technical direction for ad formats at Faire and shape the roadmap for what we build next.

Define the end-to-end architecture for our next-generation ad formats, including a unified serving layer that keeps the experience fast, scalable, and reliable across surfaces and devices.