Senior Engineering Manager

Job Description

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 historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours. About this role: Our engineering team owns the software that makes our marketplace work. We’re looking for an experienced leader to help lead teams focused on a core customer experience. Our customers look to Faire to help manage and run their wholesale business across the customer journey, from getting their products listed to marketing their business through promotions or email to processing wholesale orders and managing their fulfillment. We care about good engineering practices and love to write software that is secure, tested, easy to maintain, and scalable 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. We are deeply committed to accelerating the adoption of AI across our engineering workflow—leveraging it for everything from basic coding assistance and streamlining review processes to informing architectural design and enhancing system monitoring. We are excited about this vision and are seeking Engineering Managers to partner with us in accelerating it, driving AI as a critical enabler for increasing our development velocity and system quality. What you’ll do: Directly manage a cross functional team of engineers. Partner with product management and design on team strategy and roadmapping Champion customer empathy and advocacy by translating deep customer needs into strategic and technical priorities. Lead scoping and sprint planning within your teams Oversee the health and quality of the production system, leveraging automated tools to diagnose and address defects and system issues. Identify and scope infrastructure or tooling changes to impact efficiency and/or quality Champion the adoption of AI-driven tools and processes (e.g., background agents, automated testing, production monitoring) across the engineering organization to accelerate development velocity and quality. <

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