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. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace.
At Lyst we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn’t, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. 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 notification and emails to our customers
- 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. You are able to explain your ideas clearly and transform them into plans. You are able to design the solution to a complex problem.
- You try to write code that is readable by everyone, well tested and robust in production
- You are willing to refactor existing code in favour of working around shortcoming
- 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
- Communication: You are able to communicate clearly and be humble when sharing ideas with everyone on the team. You are able to explain your ideas clearly and transform them into plans. You are able to design the solution to a complex problem
- Quality - You strive to write code that is readable by everyone, well tested and robust in production
- 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
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