About
FARFETCH is a global platform for luxury fashion that connects creators, curators, and consumers. Its modular end-to-end technology platform connects the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide.
Responsibilities
•Lead, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of backend and integration engineers; conduct regular 1:1s, set development goals, and foster continuous feedback, psychological safety, and technical curiosity
•Own the lifecycle and health of the B2B integration domain, guiding architectural decisions to make product ingestion, order relay, and return pipelines scalable, resilient, and observable
•Collaborate with Product Managers to translate business requirements into a technical roadmap and prioritize the backlog, balancing feature delivery with technical debt management and infrastructure scaling
•Advocate for CI/CD, test automation, site reliability, and agile methodologies across the engineering organization
•Contribute to talent acquisition and interviewing, and build onboarding plans to attract and retain engineering talent
Requirements
•Proven experience managing and developing high-performing, multidisciplinary software engineering teams
•Deep technical experience building and scaling high-throughput integration pipelines, B2B data exchanges (APIs, Webhooks, EDI), and event-driven architectures
•Ability to review architecture and guide teams using modern, cloud-native technology stacks
•Strong background in distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and relevant technologies such as modern .NET, Node.js/TypeScript, Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL databases such as Cassandra or MongoDB, and cloud infrastructure
•Solid understanding of agile product development and the DevOps mindset, with ownership of software from inception through production and continuous monitoring
•Emotional intelligence and communication skills to build stakeholder relationships and bridge technical concepts with business outcomes
•Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or equivalent real-world experience demonstrating a deep foundation in software engineering principles
Benefits
•Health insurance for the whole family, flexible working environment, and well-being support and tools
•Extra days off, a sabbatical program, and days to give back to the community
•Training opportunities and free access to Udemy
•Flexible benefits program
