Staff Product Engineer - Ads Formats

The role

You will build high-scale, low-latency systems to serve and render premium ad formats like video and brand creative. You will own the technical vision, design automated systems for ad serving and A/B testing, and partner with Product and Design to shape the roadmap.

What you will do

• Define the end-to-end architecture for next-generation ad formats
• Design automated systems for ad format serving, optimization, and A/B testing
• Build framework-level solutions to make new formats faster to ship
• Conceptualize, prototype, and run experiments on new ad format ideas
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and engineering teams
• Apply best practices for availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management
• Guide and upskill other engineers

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years as a technical leader driving complex, cross-team projects
• Deep expertise in building and scaling ad formats or similar user-facing content delivery systems
• Excellent programming and system design skills
• Proven track record of leading and operating highly available, high-performance, low-latency backend systems at scale
• AI-native, using modern AI tooling as a core part of how you deliver impact and embedding AI best practices into your daily workflow
• Ability to turn ambiguous business problems into clear product and technical direction
• Strong collaboration, mentorship, and leadership skills

Nice to have

• Experience with cross-platform development
• Prior experience building or operating creative serving infrastructure for digital advertising, especially for new and rich ad formats
• Experience with machine learning and gen-AI in advertising, such as ranking, retrieval, and optimization

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Company-wide recharge days
• Paid parental leave up to 16 weeks
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot
• Mental health support and coaching through Modern Health
• Stipends to support professional development, wellness, and work from home needs
• Employer-sponsored retirement plan

About the company

Faire is a technology wholesale platform that uses tech, data, and machine learning to connect independent retailers with products from around the world. The company was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square.