Faire
The global online platform empowering independent retail.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2016
- Employees
- 900
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Max Rhodes
- Type
- Private
About
Faire is an innovative online marketplace that uses machine learning to match local retailers with the brands and products that uniquely fit their stores. We are using the power of technology to connect brands and independent retailers from all over the world, building a thriving community of hundreds of thousands of retailers, which has resulted in over 7 million new connections to date. Faire was founded on the belief that the future of retail is local. Our mission is to empower brands and retailers to strengthen the unique character of local communities. Our data-driven approach unburdens retailers from decades-old obstacles by helping find the right products for their shop. Plus, our straight-forward financial terms level the playing field by eliminating inventory risk and providing access to capital—key offerings previously only available to big box chains. For brands, our platform provides powerful sales, marketing, and analytics tools that simplify their business and allow them to focus on what they love: making great products.
Open positions
Senior Software Engineer - Product Security
Senior engineer on Faire's Product Security team builds scalable security frameworks (authentication, data access) for the wholesale marketplace's Kotlin services, consults with product teams on vulnerabilities and risks, and promotes secure coding practices. Stack includes Kotlin, TypeScript, Python, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and MySQL/DynamoDB/CockroachDB.
Staff Security Engineer - Bot & Traffic Defence
First dedicated owner of bot & traffic defence at Faire: sets the technical strategy for edge WAF/rate-limiting controls, bot detection signals, distributed layer-7 rate limiting, and incident response against scraping and application-layer DDoS. Works with Kotlin, Python, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CDN edge security platforms.
Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer
Staff engineer who owns Faire's data platform: designing and building the CDC/streaming pipeline from production databases (CockroachDB, MySQL) via Kafka into Iceberg on S3, Snowflake, and Databricks, with data quality checks, SLAs, on-call reliability, and mentoring. A hands-on technical-direction role for the data that analysts and ML depend on.
Growth Platform, Marketing Engineer
About Faire Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has…
Product Engineer - Brand - Fullstack, Backend or Frontend
Build and ship full-stack features for a wholesale marketplace that connects independent retailers with global brands, using Java/Kotlin/JavaScript, React/Next.js, and AWS.
Senior Applied ML/AI Scientist - Search
Build and improve Faire's search engine using LLMs, vector retrieval, and ranking models to connect retailers with relevant wholesale products, ensuring low-latency, high-precision results.
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Compass
Build and lead an AI-powered retail assistant that helps independent stores discover products using proprietary data, agentic AI, and web search, shipping features end-to-end with high velocity.