Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry. The Farfetch Marketplace connects customers in over 190 countries and territories with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,400 of the world’s best brands, boutiques, and department stores, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace.
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.
TECHNOLOGY
We're on a mission to build end-to-end products and technology that powers the an incredible e-commerce experience for luxury customers everywhere, understanding the motivations and needs of our customers and partners, to designing and testing hypotheses, to creating industry-leading experiences for luxury customers.
THE ROLE
We are seeking a highly motivated Data Scientist to join our Search & Rankings team within the Consumer Products domain. This team is responsible for the core discovery experience that connects millions of luxury fashion lovers with items from over 1,400 of the world’s best brands.
You will work in a dynamic, interdisciplinary team alongside Software Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers. While our MLEs focus on building robust MLOps pipelines and scaling infrastructure, your focus will be on the "brain" of the system: deeply understanding user intent, designing complex ranking logic, and proving value through rigorous experimentation.
One of your primary focus areas will be Rankings. Advancing our Learning to Rank (LTR) approaches for Brand, Category, and Search PLPs, which account for approximately 90% of our traffic. Additionally, you will drive the modernization of our Search Engine solutions and broader discovery initiatives as our product scales.
