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.
• Experience working with marketplaces and / or growth problem space.
• 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.
• Have lead through other managers

Salary Range

Canada : the pay range for this role is $166,000-$228,500 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.

Faire’s flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive.

Depending on the role and needs of the team, Faire employees have the flexibility to choose how they work whether that’s mainly in the office, remotely, or a mix of both.

Roles that list only a country in the location are eligible for fully remote work in that country or in- office work at a Faire office in that country, provided employees are located in the registered country / province / state.

Roles with only a city location are eligible for in-office or hybrid office work in that city. Our talent team will work with candidates to determine what locations and roles are eligible for each option.

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 at hand.

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

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.

To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our (https : / / bit.ly / faire-form)