SEO Software Engineer Frontend

Porto - Portugal

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 9 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry connecting customers in over 190 countries with items from more than 50 countries and over 1400 of the worlds best brands and charming boutiques from around the world. Farfetch opens a world of luxury for endless expressions of style delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace.

TECHNOLOGY

Were 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. Were empowered to break traditions and revolutionize with the freedom and autonomy to make a difference for our customers all over the world.

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

Were looking for a Front End Engineer to join our SEO team at the cross-section between our Engineering and Growth Marketing departments. Youll bridge engineering and search building and optimising front-end foundations that scale organic visibility performance and user experience.

Youll handle the implementation of our technical SEO backlog improving crawlability indexability rendering and site speed across our website. Youll also help develop automation pipelines and set up SEO testing frameworks to validate impact and drive measurable growth.

Youll work primarily with React and modern web technologies ensuring all frontend experiences are fast accessible and discoverable at scale.

WHAT YOULL DO

Implement and maintain SEO-related frontend features and fixes across templates structured data redirects sitemaps and meta handling;
Build and optimise components and pages using React ensuring SEO performance and accessibility best practices are applied;
Collaborate with SEO and data teams to automate validation of tags schema and Core Web Vitals across deployments;
Set up and maintain SEO A/B testing infrastructure to measure impact on traffic and conversions;
Support localisation features such as language-based rendering regional content and hreflang implementation;
Stay up to speed with frontend technologies web performance optimisation and rendering best practices;
Have an understanding of the full development lifecycle with an emphasis on software quality processes;
Work in an Agile environment focusing on delivery collaboration and continuous improvement;
Use state-of-the-art technologies to deliver performant and scalable code;
Ensure all implementations meet Core Web Vitals accessibility and performance standards;
Work with the broader Engineering team to make sure SEO checks (structured data metadata and performance tests) run automatically before new releases go live;
Contribute to improvements in rendering strategies (SSR hydration lazy loading) and experimentation setups to enhance SEO performance continuously.

WHO YOU ARE

Strong background in modern frontend engineering (React TypeScript CSS-in-JS React-Testing-Library);
Knowledge of headless CMS integration (e.g. Coremedia or similar platforms);
Understanding of technical SEO and how frontend code impacts discoverability (crawlability Core Web Vitals structured data canonicalisation);
Experienced with REST APIs and GraphQL integrations;
Familiar with web performance optimisation accessibility (WCAG) and responsive design principles;
Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative development workflows and CI/CD systems;
Familiar with AI SEO trends such as schema enrichment AI-generated metadata and semantic markup;
Experience integrating analytics and tracking for SEO experiments (e.g. Looker GSC API or custom dashboards);
Passionate about clean well-documented easily maintainable and performant code;
Experience with CI/CD systems and Agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban) is a plus;
Understanding of how search engines interact with JavaScript frameworks (SSR hydration lazy loading etc.);
Comfortable collaborating with SEO teams and translating technical requirements into scalable engineering solutions;
Experience with A/B testing frameworks or experimentation tools.
Familiarity with SEO tools (e.g. Screaming Frog Google Search Console Lighthouse) is a plus;
Skilled in problem-solving and with a proactive attitude;
An excellent team worker with good communication skills;
Fluent in English (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

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT & SCAM DISCLAIMER

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT- Farfetch is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment 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.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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