Staff Product Engineer - Search FX (Discovery Experience)
$231k - $318k • New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA
Posted 1mo ago
Job Location
New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Faire is a technology wholesale platform connecting independent retailers with global product discovery. We are seeking a Staff Product Engineer to join our Discovery Search team (Search FX). This role will be a primary technical architect for our retailer-facing search surfaces, owning the technical roadmap for search, recommendations, and Gen-AI experiences. You will bridge the gap between high-scale infrastructure and user experience, unifying retrieval, ranking, and personalization into a cohesive, high-performance system. You will integrate LLM-powered capabilities, solve complex scale problems, and drive cross-functional impact while mentoring the team.
Responsibilities
- Define the end-to-end architecture for Faire's search and discovery experience.
- Integrate LLM-powered capabilities, such as natural language search and intelligent query understanding.
- Build high-scale, low-latency systems for product discovery.
- Partner with Data Science, Product, and Design to iterate on ranking models and UX components.
- Mentor and lead the engineering team, fostering excellence and ownership.
- Lead the design of composable grids, intent-aware routing, and orchestration layers.
- Leverage LLMs to modernize query understanding and improve accuracy.
- Drive initiatives to increase retrieval candidates while maintaining search latency.
- Develop AI-driven features like 'Search Missions' to recover failed search sessions.
- Work with client engineers on SDUI and React Server Components for dynamic search layouts.
- Take accountability for the reliability and observability of the search funnel.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 3+ years as a technical leader driving complex, cross-team projects.
- Strong user-first mindset and ability to translate business problems into technical direction.
- Experience partnering with Data Science to deploy and leverage machine learning and gen-AI systems in search.
- Knowledge of search/query processing, including traditional, semantic, and hybrid frameworks (e.g., Elasticsearch, Lucene).
- Strong programming skills in Kotlin or Java.
- Experience with high-performance backend systems, Protocol Buffers, and MySQL.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to team strategy and influence organizational roadmap.
Benefits
- Equity
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