SEO Software Engineer - Frontend

Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry. We're looking for a Front End Engineer to join our SEO team at the cross-section between our Engineering and Growth Marketing departments.

Requirements

• 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)

Benefits

• Health insurance for the whole family
• Flexible working environment
• Well-being support and tools
• Extra days off
• Sabbatical program
• Days for you to give back for the community
• Training opportunities
• Free access to Udemy
• Flexible benefits program