Senior Platform Engineer at farfetch

Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry. The Farfetch Marketplace connects customers in over 190 countries and territories with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,400 of the world’s best brands, boutiques, and department stores, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace. TECHNOLOGY We're on a mission to build end-to-end products and technology that powers the an incredible e-commerce experience for luxury customers everywhere, understanding the motivations and needs of our customers and partners, to designing and testing hypotheses, to creating industry-leading experiences for luxury customers. 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 an Engineering Lead in Tech Platform, you will be responsible for leading the team that builds the foundation of our entire technology ecosystem. Your mission is to foster an environment where a high-performing team can provide a seamless, scalable, and reliable platform that empowers engineering teams to deliver software faster and with higher quality. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers dedicated to evolving our cloud-native infrastructure. You will balance people leadership and strategic growth with technical oversight, driving the adoption of Self-Service capabilities and Infrastructure as Code to reduce cognitive load for our developers while maintaining a high bar for security and resilience. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Design and build robust cloud-native infrastructure, focusing on automation, scalability, and high availability for our core systems. • Drive the creation of self-service capabilities, ensuring that the infrastructure layers we build empower engineering teams across the company to be autonomous. • Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of large-scale distributed systems, guaranteeing the platform is robust enough for high-traffic events. • Contribute to technical strategy and roadmaps, ensuring the platform's evolution aligns with global company goals and delivers consistent value. • Act as a key technical partner for Principals, Engineering Leads, and developers, translating business needs into scalable technical solutions to accelerate global productivity. • Identify opportunities to optimize cost efficiency and reliability through automated processes and modern infrastructure patterns. • Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning. WHO YOU ARE • You have a proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining complex platform infrastructure and distributed systems. • You possess a strong technical background in cloud infrastructure (e.g., Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD patterns (ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc), allowing you to make and guide complex technical decisions. • You understand the software development lifecycle deeply and have hands-on experience with development languages (e.g., Python or Golang) to effectively build tools for other developers. • You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a relentless focus on continuous system improvement and automation. • You have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively and influence technical stakeholders across the organization. • You prioritize security and compliance as core pillars of a reliable platform. 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.