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
Staff Product Manager, Search Ranking
Staff Product Manager at Faire, an online wholesale marketplace, owning the product strategy and roadmap for search ranking algorithms — its largest discovery surface. The role works closely with data science and ML platform teams to prioritize ranking improvements, define metrics, and balance near-term wins with foundational investments.
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.
Staff Product Designer
Designs and leads the strategy for Faire’s marketplace platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create intuitive, scalable experiences for independent retailers and maker brands using modern design tools and systems.
Staff Applied AI/ML Scientist
As an Applied AI/ML Scientist tech lead at Faire, you'll own strategy and execution for a two-sided marketplace, developing personalized recommendation, LTV prediction, and causal inference models using machine learning, deep learning, and LLMs, while mentoring scientists and solving marketplace growth/quality challenges.
Senior Staff Data Engineer - Platform Data and Analytics
Lead data infrastructure and analytics engineering at a fast-growing ecommerce marketplace, designing scalable pipelines, warehousing, and governance to power data-driven decisions across teams.