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 organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work. The Platform group empowers teams across Faire: Product Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, Strategy, Analytics, Finance, etc. Enabling these functions to do their best work without concern about underlying infrastructure. We enable product engineering teams to build and operate software with unmatched speed and quality. We care about good engineering practices, excellent developer experience, security, testability, ease of maintenance, and scaling to serve millions of users. We value best practices to achieve excellent availability and performance
The Analytics Platform team builds capabilities to accelerate data-driven analytics, improve productivity and accuracy at Faire. Its mandate is to reduce time from data to insights
The team focuses on the following areas and capabilities: Data warehousing, including cost-efficient storage and compute ETL (extract, transform, load) and ELT (extract, load, transform) pipelines Evolution of foundational datasets with company-wide utilization BI (business intelligence) tooling and integrations Productivity acceleration tooling for analytics use-cases, including AI/LLM powered tools Automation of analytics functions Monitoring, alerting, and cost tracking for workloads Data security, privacy, and governance The team also owns relationships with select infrastructure vendors
We’re looking for: An engineer with data and analytics experience to work alongside our highly talented team, develop and deliver technical projects, and engage with other teams in the organization
What you’ll do: Plan and execute on technology projects that scale with our growth; contribute to our technology foundations with a focus on data integrity, security, performance, scale, reliability, operational excellence