Senior Fullstack Engineer

Senior Fullstack Engineer

As a Senior Fullstack 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 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).

Who You Are

• 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.

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.

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