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FARFETCH • PT Porto, Portugal

Platform Engineer - Delivery Platform

Employment type:  Full time

3–4 days/week at home

Core hours 11–3

Job Description

FARFETCH exists for the love of fashion. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers.We're a positive platform for good, bringing together an incredible creative community made up by our people, our partners and our customers. This community is at the heart of our business success. We welcome differences, empower individuality and celebrate diverse skills and perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We are FARFETCH for All.
TECHNOLOGYWe're on a mission to build the technology that powers the global platform for luxury fashion. We operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose-built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide, addressing complex challenges and enjoying it. We're empowered to break traditions and revolutionise, with the freedom and autonomy to make a difference for our customers all over the world.
PORTOOur Porto office is located in Portugal's vibrant second city, known for its history and its creative yet cosy environment. From Account Management to Technology and Product, whatever your skills are, you'll find your fit here. You can have an informal meeting in the treehouse or play the piano in your lunch break!
THE ROLEWe're looking for a Platform Engineer with a good understanding of Cloud Infrastructure components and a DevOps mindset. If you want to be part of a worldwide distributed and diversified team, we want you! As a Platform Engineer, you'll be working in a cross-functional team, empowered to rapidly iterate and release new features for the ecosystem of internal applications aimed at our Platform improvements. You will help us maintain and create our Platform while promoting a source for engineering innovation. At FARFETCH, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to the growth of the Delivery Platform area through daily challenges. If you love learning, sharing knowledge, and using the latest technology stack while having fun, come join us!The Delivery Platform mission is to accelerate the Software Development Life Cycle by providing the CI/CD platform and promote practices to deliver the products and features in a performant, reliable, and repeatable way.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Enable autonomy of the engineering team, abstracting the infrastructure layer
  • Contribute to the distributed and highly scalable CI/CD platform that supports almost 1000 containerized microservices developed in different technologies with thousands of deploys per week from the entire tech department
  • Improve our continuous integration model with smart build and test strategies
  • Follow good practices about scale, performance, geo-distribution, multi-cloud, code maintenance, documentation. Keep Evolving, Keep Improving
  • Fully own what you build by supporting the colleagues on using and extending the automation and tools so that they can deliver faster, better, harder, and stronger! You build it, you own it

WHO YOU ARE

  • Graduated in Computer Science or another technical discipline
  • A professional with at least 2/3 years of demonstrable experience in the IT engineering field
  • Experienced on troubleshoot in a Kubernetes environment
  • Experienced on CI/CD practices and comfortable with Jenkins technologies
  • Experienced on object-oriented languages (C#, Java or Groovy)
  • Experienced Docker, Microservices, and REST APIs
  • Knowledgeable with Infrastructure as Code best practices and technologies
  • Always looking for the reliability, scalability, and performance of your software end to end
  • Learning mindset, being able to research and implement features in unfamiliar technologies in collaboration with experts
  • Fluent in English both spoken and written

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
  • FARFETCH Equity plan

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. We continue to build our consciously inclusive culture as part of our Positively FARFETCH strategy throughout our business, partnerships and communities.

We're looking for a Platform Engineer with a good understanding of Cloud Infrastructure components and a DevOps mindset, who will be working in a cross-functional team, empowered to rapidly iterate and release new features for the ecosystem of internal applications aimed at our Platform improvements.

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