Hybrid Backend Engineer

at FARFETCH

• Job title: Backend Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Distributed Systems, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Terraform, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Porto, Portugal

About the role

• Backend Engineer developing internal products at Luxclusif. Collaborating with teams to optimize technology in the luxury resale market.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will contribute to architectural discussions for backend services and consistently apply established coding standards and best practices.
• Own the development, delivery, and monitoring of features in a production environment, ensuring code quality and system reliability.
• Partner with Product Managers to refine and estimate new features, helping translate business requirements into clear technical tasks.
• Implement robust applications and event-driven logic using Azure Service Bus and Hangfire for background processing and asynchronous tasks.
• Implement and optimize database schemas, focusing on data consistency and efficient query performance.
• Work closely with the Design Team and Frontend engineers to ensure API contracts support the intended user experience and are technically feasible.
• Document APIs, system flows, and technical processes to ensure knowledge sharing across the team.
• .NET (C#), PostgreSQL, Hangfire, Azure Service Bus, Azure, Terraform, CI/CD (Bitbucket Pipelines).

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years of experience building and deploying web applications, with a clear understanding of how distributed systems work.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment, actively participating in code reviews, technical discussions, and pair programming to solve daily challenges.
• You have a strong command of .NET (C#) and a solid grasp of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles. Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a plus.
• You are comfortable working with relational databases (like PostgreSQL), writing efficient queries, and understanding basic schema optimization.
• You have practical experience working with background jobs (e.g., Hangfire) and understand the fundamentals of event-driven architecture using message brokers like Azure Service Bus or RabbitMQ.
• You consider automated testing (Unit and Integration tests) a standard part of your workflow and understand how they fit into a CI/CD pipeline.
• You have some exposure to Microsoft Azure and an interest in (or basic knowledge of) Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.
• You are comfortable working in a global, remote-friendly team, valuing clear documentation and asynchronous communication.

Benefits

• Health insurance for the whole family, flexible working environment and well-being support and tools
• Extra days off, sabbatical program and days for you to give back for the community
• Training opportunities and free access to Udemy
• Flexible benefits program