Full Stack Engineer

Lyst is a global Fashion Tech company and premium shopping app, founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 200M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion items & products in one place, via an assortment of 8.5M+ items from over 17,000 of the world’s leading brands. We are a scale-up business with a current team size of c.150 people in London, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience.

At Lyst we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper. Lyst has raised over $160m from leading investors including Accel, Balderton, Molten Ventures, Fidelity International, and LVMH.

We're looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join us and help Lyst build and grow our product. You will work closely with our current engineers, designers, growth and product managers to develop new product features and help us execute our product strategy.

As a member of the BEAM (Brand, Editorial & Ad Media) squad you’ll be working on our member experience mission. The team is responsible for the technical side of our Editorials - curated fashion feeds on the cutting edge of the industry along with services that support the Lyst mobile app and e-commerce website. The role will be to work on projects across both the frontend and backend.

What will you be working on?

• Building new and maintaining existing features (frontend and backend) and functionality for our e-commerce platform.
• Localisation preparation
• Refactoring existing areas of React in the frontend and Python in the backend
• Understanding business requirements to improve monitoring
• Integration with other APIs and services internal and external
• Documenting and being accountable for the stability of the system
• Owning a feature from planning to deployment
• You’ll primarily be working with Python (Django) for the Backend and JavaScript (Typescript & React) for the frontend
• We are fully AWS hosted, using a range of tools and setups: ECS, Docker, CircleCI, Postgresql, Redis, SQS, SNS
• Collaborating with product managers, web and app engineers to help execute on product vision and drive value for our business
• Scaling, improving and maintaining our system for sending push notifications and emails to our customers

Minimum Requirements:

• Good experience with Django/Python and web fundamentals
• Understanding of React, modern JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Good experience with web fundamentals
• Communication: You are able to communicate clearly and be humble when sharing ideas with everyone on the team.
• Ability to write readable, well-tested, and robust code in production
• Willingness to refactor existing code
• A thorough knowledge of automated testing, particularly unit testing
• Bonus: Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines i.e. CircleCI etc.

Things that matter to us:

• You are curious at heart and like to take ownership of something to make it better
• You are detail-oriented
• You are a team player and communicate with your peers and other stakeholders in the company on a day-to-day basis
• Sense of ownership over products, features, and services the team looks after
• You have experience iterating & refactoring existing code as well as writing new code
• You have experience building for fault tolerance

Our Ways of Working: We come into the office between 2-4 days a week and we're always in on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We strongly believe that in-person collaboration and time spent together as a team allows us to deliver high impact work, but the flexibility to also work remotely supports our diverse team.

Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst’s holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March.

Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.

Clothing Benefit: We provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service.

Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start.

Training Allowance: We’re big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000.

Pension Scheme: We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.

Social Events: Frequent company-wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook-alongs, as well as smaller team socials.

We want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst.

Don’t meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway.