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Senior Growth Platform Engineer

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At a Glance

Location
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON; Toronto, ON
Experience
5+ years
Compensation
he pay range for this role is $156,000 - $214,500 per year. This role will also
Posted
2026-03-16T15:48:56-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

CRMJavaKotlinMySQL

Domain Knowledge

  • Automation
  • E-commerce
  • Engineering
  • Marketing

Requirements

Have 5+ years of backend software engineering experience.

Have strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.

Have built or significantly contributed to experimentation platforms, or growth infrastructure.

Are fluent in backend technologies such as Kotlin, Java, or similar JVM-based systems.

Have deep experience designing APIs and working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, CockroachDB).

Understand event-driven architectures, data pipelines, and instrumentation best practices.

Compensation & Benefits

Canada: the pay range for this role is $156,000 - $214,500

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

Responsibilities

At Faire we have a business unit focused on Retailer Growth that oversees core growth strategies from top of funnel, to onboarding, to helping Retailers get up and running to be successful on Faire.

As our Growth organization scales, the complexity of experimentation, segmentation, targeting, personalization, and lifecycle orchestration increases dramatically. We are investing in platform capabilities that empower multiple product teams to move faster and run higher-quality experiments safely at scale.

We are looking for a

Senior Growth Platform Engineer

to design and build the foundational systems that power growth across Faire. We are looking for someone who thinks in terms of reusable capabilities, scalable architecture, and long-term leverage. This role focuses on backend systems that enable experimentation, targeting, incentives, lifecycle triggers, and growth automation across the retailer journey.