We're building a world-class engineering organization that empowers everyone to do their best work, pursue growth, and deliver outsized impact. Engineering culture here means trust, autonomy, craft excellence, and inclusion, reinforced with clear operating principles and investments in people. The bar is high, but so is the support.
High-Performance Engineering Culture
Consistent high standards in hiring to ensure teams are filled with exceptional colleagues who inspire and elevate each other. Join us at faire.com/careers!
Clear expectations, proactive feedback, and strong support systems help everyone perform at their best while supporting well-being. Recognition is routine, including structured feedback, and mentoring.
Inspired by our operating principles, engineers are given autonomy, context, and the freedom to own their projects enabling fast, effective decision-making. Innovation, bold thinking, and risk-taking are embraced and rewarded.
Faire fosters a culture of candid feedback and ensures compensation for strong performance, with clear career ladders, growth mindsets, and meaningful leadership opportunities.
Learning & Development Programs
Internship & Co-op Programs
Faire offers robust co-op and extended internship tracks, providing early-career engineers the opportunity to ship real products, own major projects, and experience mentorship and rapid growth.
Our co-ops frequently come from University of Waterloo, University of Toronto PEY (Professional Experience Year) program, National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), or an internal program for employees transitioning from non-tech roles to tech roles
Mentorship Programs
Programs like Bug-Buddies pair engineers with non-engineers and new hires, increasing engineering fluency across the business and supporting onboarding and continuous learning.
Technical Growth Together
Broad support for internal and external tech talks, book clubs, workshops, and engagement with the wider engineering ecosystem. Faire has comprehensive AI education including bootcamps, weekly workshops, knowledge portals, and AI-themed hackathons.
Focus on Employee Experience
Intentionally designed onboarding, buddy and mentorship programs, engagement surveys, regular retros and feedback loops, and celebration of wins / shoutouts. Our Employee Resource Groups can be found at Belonging at Faire.
Community & Team Building Events
Team Offsites & Retreats
Multi-day team offsites featuring skill-building workshops, collaborative activities, sporting events, and team bonding experiences; Learning-focused retreats that combine professional development with hands-on experiences; Cross-functional gatherings and team dinners that bring different departments together.
Customer Connection Events
Customer breakfast events and panels; Local retailer visits where teams experience our marketplace firsthand; Live markets where we invite our customers to visit our office or offsite locations; attendance at regional tradeshows.
Seasonal Celebrations
Summer celebrations featuring DJ sets, food trucks, games, and team bonding activities; Fall Oktoberfests and seasonal fair-themed events with games, prizes, and local food; Women's History Month programming including panels, keynote speakers, and themed happy hours; Holiday Parties - and more!
Regular Office Events & Social Hours
Weekly happy hours in all of our office locations, movie nights featuring tech classics with full concession stands, interactive workshops including cocktail and mocktail making, candle-making classes led by Faire customers, and charcuterie board competitions.
Meet Our Leaders
Marcelo Cortes
Co-founder and Chief Architect
Marcelo Cortes is the co-founder and Chief Architect of Faire. He sets the technical vision for Faire’s powerhouse engineering team. A former small business owner and previous startup founder, Marcelo, brings entrepreneurship and technical expertise to ensure Faire can quickly scale world-class products from prototype to launch. Prior to Faire, he was a staff software engineer at Square, and a senior software engineer at Google. He studied computer science at the University of Waterloo.