Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer

As a Backend Engineer, you will join our Porto hub to develop internal products that power our business areas. You will pair with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to define, plan, execute and foster a culture of technical excellence.

What You'll Do

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

Who You Are

• Experienced: You have 3 to 5 years of experience building and deploying web applications, with a clear understanding of how distributed systems work.
• Team-oriented: You thrive in a collaborative environment, actively participating in code reviews, technical discussions, and pair programming to solve daily challenges.
• Backend Proficient: 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.
• Database Capable: You are comfortable working with relational databases (like PostgreSQL), writing efficient queries, and understanding basic schema optimization.
• Async-Savvy: 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.
• Quality Focused: You consider automated testing (Unit and Integration tests) a standard part of your workflow and understand how they fit into a CI/CD pipeline.
• Cloud Curious: You have some exposure to Microsoft Azure and an interest in (or basic knowledge of) Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.
• Effective Communicator: You are comfortable working in a global, remote-friendly team, valuing clear documentation and asynchronous communication.

Rewards & 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

Equal Opportunities Statement

• FARFETCH is committed to being an inclusive workplace where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We make employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law, physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state or local laws or ordinances. If you require special accommodation, please let us know.

Scam Disclaimer

• It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activities involving individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent Farfetch in order to attract candidates to a SCAM. Please be aware that Farfetch does not conduct recruitment processes through messaging apps or any unofficial communication channels, other than our official careers website. Additionally, Farfetch will never ask candidates for any form of payment during the recruitment process.