Growth Platform, Marketing Engineer
About this role
Faire builds a wholesale platform that uses technology and machine learning to connect independent retailers and brands globally. The marketing engineering team develops the underlying infrastructure and tooling that allows the marketing organization to run autonomously, shifting away from manual requests and dependent engineering pods.
In this role, the engineer writes production code across the stack, builds self-serve landing page frameworks and audience syncing capabilities, and integrates AI agents into marketing workflows with proper evaluation and monitoring. The position suits an autonomous engineer with experience in growth or marketing technology who enjoys identifying systemic patterns and delivering scalable internal platforms.
What you will do
- Design, build, review, deploy, and monitor production services end-to-end within Faire's codebase.
- Embed directly with marketing teams to uncover systemic workflow bottlenecks and build self-serve tools that eliminate manual requests.
- Integrate AI agents into marketing processes with evaluation harnesses, monitoring, and defined failure modes.
- Develop self-serve landing page frameworks and audience attribute syncing solutions for non-technical users.
- Transform ambiguous requirements into scoped, prioritized technical plans while communicating tradeoffs to stakeholders.
- Participate in on-call rotations and manage services independently.
What you need
- Bring at least 4 years of experience shipping and owning production software within marketing, growth, or GTM organizations.
- Write production code using backend and frontend technologies and query data using SQL in a data warehouse.
- Demonstrate depth in at least one marketing platform such as a CDP, ESP, attribution tool, CMS, or ad platform API.
- Utilize AI coding agents daily and possess hands-on experience deploying LLMs into production with evaluation and monitoring.
- Show a proven track record of owning systems end-to-end, handling on-call duties, and delivering tools that non-technical users operate independently.
Nice to have
- Marketplace or two-sided e-commerce experience
- Production experience with Kotlin or Java on the backend and JavaScript or TypeScript with React or Next.js on the frontend
- Experience replacing a martech vendor with an in-house build
- Familiarity with Braze, Hightouch, Google Ads, or Meta
Benefits
- Competitive pay ranging from $176,000 to $242,000 per year
- Equity eligibility
- Comprehensive benefits designed to support life inside and outside of work
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What is the remote and office policy for this role?
Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.
What is the salary range for the Growth Platform Marketing Engineer?
The pay range for this role in San Francisco and New York is $176,000 to $242,000 per year, and the role is also eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay is determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location.
What technologies will I be working with?
Faire's stack includes Kotlin, Java, JUnit, Hibernate, Guice, Jersey, React, Next.js, HTTP, JSON, Protocol Buffers, MySQL, and CockroachDB on AWS. You will also use SQL and work with marketing platforms like Braze, Iterable, Segment, and Hightouch.
What projects will I focus on first?
Short-term projects include building a marketing-led landing page workflow that moves away from slow processes and manual test prioritization, and creating self-serve audience and attribute syncing capabilities. Other radar items include learning loops for generative assets and improving the infrastructure for core intelligence feeds.