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Hiring now
66
+19 posted in 30 days
Backers
11
Y Combinator, Wellington Management
Momentum
22/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 28 First executive search Head of Finance Systems & Data Feb 23, 2018 Took on debt financing $575k · SEC Form D Jan 2017 Went through Y Combinator 2017 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
9
best: 8 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Debt Financing Feb 2018 $575k — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Faire Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Terrell ShermanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Sydney ShermanExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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How Faire hires

Truth index
B 82/100
Median time to fill
54 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
64%
Reposted roles
14%

Faire scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 64% have gone stale and 14% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 54 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

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Overview

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace headquartered in San Francisco, California, that connects independent retailers with brands and uses data and machine learning to help shop owners discover and stock products. Founded in 2017, it lets retailers order in small quantities with net-60 payment terms and free returns on first orders, and it serves hundreds of thousands of retailers across North America and Europe. It hires software engineers, applied AI and machine learning scientists, product analytics engineers, product managers and marketers, strategy and finance leads, GTM systems engineers, account executives and bilingual sales development representatives.

News

News lesnums 3 months ago
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20€ par mois pour une ligne fixe moyenne, 10€ pour télécharger un gros jeu vidéo, jusqu'à 1,40€ pour un film 4K de deux heures: appliquée au trafic réel, la taxe à 0,10€/Go proposée par le Parti socialiste ferait entrer le gigaoctet dans la fiscalité du q
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News Maker Faire 7 months ago
Call for Makers
Calling all makers from startups and science clubs to inventors and artists to apply to Maker Faire Bay Area 2026. Showcase your work with the very best of the Bay Area, and beyond!
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News Maker Faire 7 months ago
Maker Faire Bay Area - September 25 - 27, 2026
September 25 - 27, 2026 on Mare Island, California. Come join the largest celebration of invention, creativity, curiosity and hands-on learning.
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News tribunemag.co.uk 10 months ago
Laissez-Faire Listening
The Swedish tech giant has rigged the music industry against artists, mined listeners for data, and made music boring for everyone. Or is that just what the major recording labels want you to believe?
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News Make Things 2 years ago
A Community Round
Announcing an opportunity to invest in Make: Community
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News davekarpf.substack.com 3 years ago
On Substack Nazis, laissez-faire tech regulation, and mouse-poop-in-cereal-boxes
My advisor in college was named Paul Dawson.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Faire over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
107
Postings analysed
107
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL28%
Python27%
Kotlin27%
Java21%
Frameworks & libraries
Hibernate13%
React.js10%
JUnit8%
PyTorch7%
Databases
MySQL19%
CockroachDB17%
Snowflake12%
DynamoDB7%
Cloud & platforms
AWS24%
Kubernetes12%
Spark9%
Amazon S38%
AI & ML
LLM18%
Claude7%
ChatGPT5%
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Full Faire tech stack 107 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$240k
Typical range
$32k – $393k
Open positions
61
58 Jobs
Intern 1.7%
Junior 3.4%
Middle 6.9%
Senior 48.3%
Staff 32.8%
Architect 6.9%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Intern 1 $150k $150k
Junior 2 $127k $127k
Middle 4 $181k $127k – $242k
Senior 28 $240k $134k – $393k
Staff 19 $253k $139k – $339k
Architect 4 $272k $236k – $326k
Highest paying role Strategy & Analytics Senior Director, Discovery $393k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Faire By role, level and city, against the market · 61 jobs with pay

People

Terrell Sherman
Executive Officer, Director
Sydney Sherman
Executive Officer, Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
79/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
66
20 opened / 20 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
55 days
faster than 25% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
15% ▲
Operations
13% ▲
Product
12%
Backend
11% ▼
Sales
9% ▼
Security
7% ▼
Actively hiring for Operations (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added DHCP to stack Oct 2026
New location: Waterloo Oct 2026
Added Fine-tuning to stack Oct 2026
Added Zendesk to stack Oct 2026
Added Wi-Fi to stack Oct 2026
Added Agile to stack Oct 2026
Added Rollup to stack Oct 2026
Added PHP to stack Oct 2026
Added WooCommerce to stack Oct 2026
Added Scala to stack Oct 2026
Added Apache Iceberg to stack Oct 2026
Added Airflow to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
12
Hiring now
7
Countries
6
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
San Francisco, CA
49 open roles 46 posted in 90 days 47% engineering $261k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Product, Marketing
seen since Apr 2025 careers board, job postings
New York United States
Engineering / R&D
New York City, NY
23 open roles 19 posted in 90 days 43% engineering $268k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Product, Analytics
seen since Mar 2026 careers board, job postings
Toronto Canada
Engineering / R&D
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
13 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 92% engineering $157k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Data Science
seen since Mar 2026 careers board, job postings
Waterloo Canada
Engineering / R&D
Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
11 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 91% engineering $162k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Data Science
seen since Feb 2026 careers board
Kitchener Canada
Engineering / R&D
10 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 90% engineering $160k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, AI/ML, Data Science
seen since Mar 2026
London United Kingdom
Support & operations
London, UK
4 open roles 7 posted in 90 days $182k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, HR, Sales
seen since Apr 2026 careers board, job postings
Chicago United States
Support & operations
Chicago, IL
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days $127k Avg Salary
hires for Operations
seen since Sep 2026 careers board, job postings
São Paulo Brazil
Regional office
São Paulo, BR
careers board
Los Angeles United States
Regional office
Los Angeles, CA
careers board
Amsterdam Netherlands
Regional office
Amsterdam, NL
careers board
Sydney Australia
Regional office
Sydney, AU
careers board
Salt Lake City United States
Regional office
Salt Lake City, UT
careers board

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Financials

Total raised
$575k
Latest round
Debt Financing
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Debt Financing 2018 $575k Details