Senior Software Engineer

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At LUXCLUSIF, we are dedicated to redefining the luxury paradigm by offering premium pre-owned fashion to a global audience. As a pioneer in the global luxury resale market, we utilize advanced data-driven solutions to facilitate the buying and selling of high-end pre-owned items. With operations spread across the globe and strategic warehouses in key locations, we ensure a seamless supply of luxury goods. Our comprehensive services cover everything from item curation, quality control, operations, logistics to technology integrations and sales, delivering an unmatched resale experience for brands, retailers, and individual customers alike.

PORTO

Our office is near Porto, in the north of Portugal, and is located in a vibrant business hub. It offers a dynamic and welcoming environment where our employees can connect and network with a large community of tech professionals.

THE ROLE

As a Senior 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 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.

WHO YOU ARE

• 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.

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 an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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.