Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at FARFETCH

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Azure, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Terraform, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Porto, Portugal

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer driving architectural decisions for backend services at LUXCLUSIF. Leading execution of complex features and ensuring the system can handle future growth in luxury resale market.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will drive architectural decisions for backend services, establishing coding standards, and defining best practices that elevate the team's output.
• Lead the definition, planning, and execution of complex features. You are responsible for the full lifecycle, from initial design to production monitoring, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Pair with Product Managers on discovery and prioritization. You don't just execute tasks; you translate high-level business requirements into scalable technical specifications.
• Design and implement sophisticated event-driven architectures and distributed systems using Azure Service Bus and Hangfire, ensuring the system can handle future growth.
• Oversee database health and strategy. You are responsible for complex schema design, performance tuning, and ensuring long-term data integrity.
• Act as a key consultant for the Design and Frontend teams, ensuring that complex User Experiences are technically feasible, performant, and architecturally sound from an API perspective.
• Lead the creation of high-quality architectural diagrams and system documentation, ensuring the "technical source of truth" is always up to date.
• Act as the subject matter expert in .NET (C#), PostgreSQL, Azure, and Terraform, guiding the team in CI/CD best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building, deploying, and scaling distributed systems and high-traffic web applications.
• You don't work in isolation; you mentor peers, lead code reviews with a focus on design patterns, and facilitate technical alignment across the engineering team.
• Deep proficiency in .NET (C#) and a mastery of Object-Oriented Programming and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Highly proficient in relational databases (PostgreSQL), with a proven track record of optimizing complex queries and managing data at scale.
• Proven experience architecting background processing (Hangfire) and event-driven systems using message brokers (Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, or Kafka).
• You view automated testing as a baseline and have experience designing CI/CD pipelines that ensure high-quality, frequent deployments.
• Highly comfortable with Microsoft Azure and have practical experience managing infrastructure through Terraform.
• You thrive in a global, asynchronous environment, possessing the communication skills to influence stakeholders and collaborate across time zones.

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.