Lead Platform Engineer – Computing Platform
FARFETCH
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Porto • Portugal
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About the role
- Lead and manage a team of Individual Contributors, focusing on their career growth, setting clear expectations, and fostering a culture of psychological safety and continuous learning.
- Develop and implement strategic roadmaps that align your team’s objectives with global company goals, ensuring the team delivers consistent value.
- Drive the creation of self-service capabilities, ensuring that the infrastructure layers we build empower engineering teams across the company to be autonomous.
- Oversee the reliability, performance, and scalability of large-scale distributed systems, ensuring the platform is robust enough for high-traffic events.
- Act as a key partner for Principals and other engineering leads, translating business needs into technical strategies and vice versa to accelerate global productivity.
- Identify opportunities to optimize cost efficiency and reliability through automated processes and modern infrastructure patterns.
Requirements
- You have a track record of managing and growing engineering teams, with a focus on mentorship and team dynamics.
- You possess a strong technical background in cloud infrastructure (e.g., Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD patterns (ArgoCD, Jenkins), allowing you to guide complex technical decisions.
- You understand the software development lifecycle deeply and have experience with development languages (e.g., Python or Golang) to effectively support tool-building for other developers.
- You have good roadmap management skills and a focus on continuous system improvement.
- You have exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to navigate and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- You prioritize security and compliance as core pillars of a reliable platform.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud infrastructureKubernetesCI/CDArgoCDJenkinsPythonGolangsoftware development lifecycleautomated processesinfrastructure patterns
Soft Skills
mentorshipteam dynamicsinterpersonal skillscommunication skillsstakeholder influencecareer growth focuspsychological safetycontinuous learningroadmap managementsystem improvement