Hybrid Senior Fullstack Engineer

at FARFETCH

• Job title: Senior Fullstack Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Kafka, MySQL, Postgres, RabbitMQ, React, SQL, Terraform, TypeScript, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Porto, Portugal

About the role

• Senior Fullstack Engineer at Luxclusif developing internal B2B products in Porto. Collaborating with teams to drive technical excellence and optimize luxury resale operations.

Responsibilities

• Be a Technical Reference: Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will drive architectural decisions for both backend services and frontend applications, establishing coding standards and best practices.
• E2E Ownership: Own the definition, planning, execution, delivery, and monitoring of features in a production environment, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Be Product-Driven: Pair with Product Managers on discovery, refinement, estimation, and prioritisation of new features, translating business requirements into technical specs.
• Architect Scalable Solutions: Design and implement robust applications and event-driven architectures using Azure Service Bus and Hangfire for background processing and asynchronous tasks.
• Ensure Data Integrity: Manage and optimise database schemas, ensuring data consistency and query performance.
• Collaborate on UX/UI: Engage closely with the Design Team, ensuring faithful implementation of our web strategy and contribute to the evolution and maintenance of our internal Design System, ensuring visual consistency and code reusability.
• Champion Documentation: Create and maintain clear documentation for APIs, architecture diagrams, and system flows.
• Master the Stack: .NET (C#), SQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL, Hangfire, Azure Service Bus, React/TypeScript, Azure, Terraform, CI/CD (Bitbucket Pipelines).

Requirements

• Experienced: You have at least 7 years of experience building and deploying distributed systems and web applications.
• Backend Specialist: You have deep proficiency in .NET (C#) and a solid grasp of Object-Oriented Programming and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Database Proficient: You are comfortable working with relational databases and know how to optimise them for scale.
• Async & Background Processing: You have proven experience implementing background jobs (using Hangfire or similar) and event-driven architecture using message brokers (Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc).
• Frontend Capable: You are proficient with React and TypeScript, capable of building and maintaining functional and responsive UI components.
• Quality Obsessed: You view automated testing (Unit, Integration) as a baseline for every feature and know how to integrate tests into a CI/CD pipeline.
• Cloud Aware: Strong familiarity with Microsoft Azure and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) is highly valued.
• Global Communicator: You are comfortable working with different time zones and thrive in an environment that values asynchronous communication and autonomy.

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