Senior Backend Engineer - Brand Platform

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 Brand engineering team owns the code that our Brands use to manage their business on Faire. This includes managing product listings, fulfilling orders, and communicating with retailers. This role is for the brand platform sub-team and focuses on laying a strong foundation for customer-facing teams to build on. 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. As a Senior Back-end on the Brand Platform team, you'll collaborate with us to: Define clear service boundaries Build out AI enablement for common tasks on the team Optimize the performance of our highest contention data models. Deliver core features of our Kotlin server Design and build new APIs used by our website and mobile app Help the product team continuously improve our customer's experience We're excited about you because you have: A passion for programming and solving problems with code Examples of using AI to automate large-scale quality impro