# Staff Product Engineer - Search FX (Discovery Experience) at Faire

- Company: Faire
- What the company does: Backed by Founders Fund, Lightspeed and Norwest.
- Company website: https://faire.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $231K to $318K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/faire/jobs/8523826002?gh_jid=8523826002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/faire-staff-product-engineer-search-fx-discovery-experience/

## About the role

The Discovery Search team (Search FX) sits at the intersection of search, evaluation, and personalization shaping how retailers find the products they love. Our mission is to build the most intuitive, intelligent, and delightful discovery experience in wholesale: one that feels less like a search engine and more like a trusted merchant with an encyclopedic knowledge of what's in stock and what will sell.

## What they're looking for

- Experience: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years as a technical leader driving complex, cross-team projects
- Product Sensibility: A strong user-first mindset and the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical direction
- AI/ML Familiarity: Experience partnering with Data Science to deploy and leverage machine learning and gen-AI systems in search experiences across ranking and retrieval
- Domain Expertise: knowledge of search/query processing, including traditional, semantic, and hybrid frameworks (e.g., Elasticsearch, Lucene)
- Technical Stack: Strong programming skills in Kotlin or Java, with experience in high-performance backend systems, Protocol Buffers, and MySQL
- Strategic Leadership: Demonstrated ability to contribute to team strategy without supervision and influence the broader organizational roadmap

Tags: Engineering