Senior Software Engineer
TLDR
Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to build scalable internal products, driving technical excellence in a dynamic startup environment.
Be a Technical Reference: 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.
End-to-End Ownership: 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.
Be Strategic & Product-Driven: Pair with Product Managers on discovery and prioritization. You don't just execute tasks; you translate high-level business requirements into scalable technical specifications.
Architect Scalable Solutions: Design and implement sophisticated event-driven architectures and distributed systems using Azure Service Bus and Hangfire, ensuring the system can handle future growth.
Optimize Data Strategy: Oversee database health and strategy. You are responsible for complex schema design, performance tuning, and ensuring long-term data integrity.
Bridge Design & Engineering: 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.
Champion Documentation: Lead the creation of high-quality architectural diagrams and system documentation, ensuring the "technical source of truth" is always up to date.
Expert in the Stack: Act as the subject matter expert in .NET (C#), PostgreSQL, Azure, and Terraform, guiding the team in CI/CD best practices.
Deeply Experienced: You have 5+ years of experience building, deploying, and scaling distributed systems and high-traffic web applications.
Technical Leader: 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.
Backend Specialist: You possess deep proficiency in .NET (C#) and a mastery of Object-Oriented Programming and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
Database Expert: You are highly proficient in relational databases (PostgreSQL), with a proven track record of optimizing complex queries and managing data at scale.
Distributed Systems Pro: You have proven experience architecting background processing (Hangfire) and event-driven systems using message brokers (Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, or Kafka).
Quality Advocate: You view automated testing as a baseline and have experience designing CI/CD pipelines that ensure high-quality, frequent deployments.
Cloud & IaC Proficient: You are highly comfortable with Microsoft Azure and have practical experience managing infrastructure through Terraform.
Global Communicator: You thrive in a global, asynchronous environment, possessing the communication skills to influence stakeholders and collaborate across time zones.
Benefits
Health Insurance
Health insurance for the whole family, flexible working environment and well-being support and tools
Learning Budget
Training opportunities and free access to Udemy
Flexible benefits
Flexible benefits program.
Paid Time Off
Extra days off, sabbatical program and days for you to give back for the community
Farfetch operates a global marketplace that connects customers in over 190 countries with luxury fashion items from more than 1,400 brands and boutiques. By bridging the gap between established designers and emerging talents, it offers a unique shopping experience for fashion enthusiasts looking for high-quality, stylish products.
- Founded
- Founded 2008
- Employees
- 500+ employees
- Industry
- Internet Software & Services
- Total raised
- $950M raised