Staff Backend Engineer (Ads Formats)

Join Faire, a fast-growing startup revolutionizing the wholesale industry. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll lead the development of high-scale, low-latency systems for premium ad formats. You'll shape the technical direction for ad formats, build automated systems for serving and optimization, and drive cross-functional impact. With a focus on customer understanding and collaboration, you'll mentor and lead other engineers while advocating for best practices in engineering excellence.

• Définir l'architecture de bout en bout pour les nouveaux formats publicitaires, y compris une couche de diffusion unifiée.
• Concevoir des systèmes hautement automatisés pour la diffusion, l'optimisation et les tests A/B des formats publicitaires.
• Collaborer avec les équipes Produit, Design, Data Science et d'autres équipes d'ingénierie pour livrer des solutions cohérentes et à fort impact.
• Excellent programming and system design skills, with a proven track record of leading and operating highly available, high-performance, low-latency backend systems at scale
• AI-native, using modern AI tooling as a core part of how you deliver impact and embedding AI best practices into your daily workflow
• Deep expertise in building and scaling ad formats or similar user-facing content delivery systems
• Strong collaboration, mentorship, and leadership: a compelling vision, clear communication, and the ability to drive concurrent projects and influence strategy with a collaborative leadership style
• A product builder who understands customers deeply, helps shape what gets built, and turns ambiguous business problems into clear product and technical direction
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years as a technical leader driving complex, cross-team projects
• Experience with cross-platform development
• Experience with machine learning and gen-AI in advertising, such as ranking, retrieval, and optimization
• Prior experience building or operating creative serving infrastructure for digital advertising, especially for new and rich ad formats (e.g., video or interactive creative)