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 Analytics Engineer - Retailer Growth
Senior Analytics Engineer at Faire's San Francisco office (hybrid, 3 days/week in office) leading scalable data models, pipelines, and AI-driven analytics workflows that support product features for SMBs, partnering with data scientists, product analysts, and software engineers. Core stack: Python, SQL, Airflow, Docker, dbt.
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.
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Search Ranking
Builds next-generation search ranking algorithms for Faire, a wholesale marketplace: applying deep learning, transformers, graph neural networks, and LLMs to personalize product/brand discovery for retailers. Requires 5+ years shipping large-scale ML models and 3+ years in search, recommendation, or ads ranking.
Senior Finance Analytics Engineer
Senior analytics engineer embedded in Faire's Finance team, building and maintaining the ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, and monitoring that power financial reporting and business insights. Core stack includes SQL, Python, dbt, Airflow, Docker, cloud data warehouses (Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift), and BI tools like Looker and Tableau.
Senior Client Platform Engineer
Manage the lifecycle and security of corporate endpoints (macOS, Windows, Chrome OS, iOS, Android) at Faire, building automations, deploying patches/OS upgrades, and using AI tools to enhance endpoint management and security.
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.
Senior Applied ML/AI Scientist - Search
A Senior Applied ML/AI Scientist at Faire will design and optimize real-time search and recommendation systems for personalized product discovery, leveraging deep learning (transformers, GNNs) and multimodal signals (text, visual) to enhance retailer and user experiences on a global e-commerce wholesale platform.
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.
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Retailer
Build and deploy ML models to optimize shipping costs, credit limits, and retailer growth for a wholesale marketplace connecting local retailers with global suppliers.