Faire operates a two-sided wholesale marketplace with a tech stack optimized for ML and real-time personalization: PyTorch, Faiss, ScaNN, Pinecone, BERT, and LLM integrations (ChatGPT, Gemini) sit atop Databricks + Spark + Delta Lake. The hiring mix tilts heavily toward engineering and data roles—matching active projects around ML platform architecture, search/discovery, and AI-assisted personalization—while adopting Unity Catalog and scaling toward millions of users. Internal pain points cluster around ML platform performance, data science velocity, and monetization model evolution.
Notable leadership hires: Marketing Analytics Lead, Strategy Analytics Lead, Head of Tax
Faire is a wholesale technology platform connecting independent brands and retailers to strengthen local retail communities. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company operates a two-sided marketplace where brands can discover retailers and manage orders at scale. The platform serves mid-market and enterprise customers across the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Core operations span engineering, finance, product, data, and sales, with active work on SOX compliance, enterprise sales motion, and new product extensions.
Faire runs on Java/Kotlin backends with MySQL and CockroachDB; data infrastructure uses Databricks, Apache Spark, and Delta Lake; ML is built on PyTorch, BERT, Faiss, and ScaNN, with Pinecone for vector search and LLM integrations (ChatGPT, Gemini).
Current projects include ML platform architecture and performance optimization, next-generation search and discovery powered by AI, brand acquisition tests, monetization model evolution, SOX compliance, and enterprise sales motion refinement.
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