Flexa
FARFETCH • PT Porto, Portugal

Lead Platform Engineer (Porto)

Employment type:  Full time

3–4 days/week at home

Core hours 11–3

Job Description

The Data Platform Foundation team is part of a vision to build highly autonomous and empowered Data Science, Engineering, and Analyst teams that move rapidly to deliver big impact with some of our most challenging and high visibility projects. You will be an integral part of our engineering team, being responsible for helping build, maintain and improve our machine learning platform, analytics platform, and infrastructure overall. Our motto is “Work hard, play hard!”. We are a relaxed, easy going team, made of different nationalities. Everyone’s idea matters, regardless of the level of seniority. We work in agile methodology, having daily standups, retrospectives, sprint planning, etc. Working collaboratively as a team and with our business colleagues, both here in London and across our other locations, you’ll be shaping the technical direction of a critically important part of Farfetch.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

  • Be part of the on call rota, guaranteeing availability 24/7 when on shift.
  • You will be managing a team of skilled platform engineers, between juniors and principal level;
  • You will be responsible for their OKRs, career growth and developments.
  • You will be managing our multi-cloud infrastructure using terraform.
  • You will be responsible for scoping out the projects for your team;
  • You will be operating and improving our data platform services in AKS and GKE
  • You will work to create solutions that deal with our large volumes of data.
  • You'll be building various data platform tools for monitoring, CI/CD and IaCYou will work with the team to set and maintain standards and development practices.
  • You will be a keen advocate of quality and continuous improvement.

WHO YOU ARE:

  • You had experience in managing a team and mentoring its members;
  • You have excellent communication skills;
  • You are able to interact and engage with stakeholders either from business or other technical areas;
  • You have experience with managing infrastructure as code and associated tools, preferably terraform, pulumi or crossplane;
  • You can productionise your code, but also know that something done is better than something perfect, and iterate over time to improve it;
  • You have experience in a cloud environment, preferably Azure and GCP;
  • You have experience in continuous delivery principles: version control, unit and automated tests;
  • You have skills in programming languages, preferably Go, Python or Java;
  • You see around corners: balancing scrappy results with building high quality data and infrastructure

You will be an integral part of our engineering team, being responsible for helping build, maintain and improve our machine learning platform, analytics platform and infrastructure overall. Our motto is “Work hard, play hard!”. Working collaboratively as a team and with our business colleagues, both here in London and across our other locations, you’ll be shaping the technical direction of a critically important part of Farfetch.

Company benefits

Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Adoption leave
Shared parental leave
FARFETCH Equity plan
Flexible benefits scheme - from Private Healthcare and Dental insurance to fitness classes with ClassPass, there is something for everyone!
32 days holiday including flexible public holidays - to use on public or religious holidays of your choice
2 GiveBack Days a year - to volunteer for a social cause of your choice
FARFETCH and Browns discount - to experience both brands as a customer

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options FARFETCH provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure FARFETCH is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at FARFETCH

Company employees

6000

Gender diversity (male:female)

60/40

Office locations

London HQ with a global presence

Hiring Countries

United Kingdom