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 our Member Experience squad - a collaborative, cross-functional team dedicated to improving the experience for Lyst members (users who create an account). You'll get to work across user personalisation, our stock and price alerts, as well as the optimisation and creation of member-exclusive features. Member Experience work spans across the website, the mobile app, our CRM database and our e-mail/push-notification service with dedicated team members for each area. Together, we focus on creating seamless, engaging experiences that make it easier for people to join, stay, and get the most out of Lyst.
What will you be working on?
- Building new and maintaining existing features (frontend and backend) and functionality for our e-commerce platform.
- Developing primarily in Python (Django) for the backend and JavaScript/TypeScript (React) for the frontend.
- Integrating with internal/external APIs and services.
- Owning features from initial planning through to deployment, ensuring they deliver real value.
- Writing reliable, well-tested code, using tools such as pytest, Jest with React Testing Library, Storybook, and Cypress for end-to-end coverage.
- Monitoring performance and stability through observability tools, keeping our platform running smoothly.
- Champion knowledge-sharing by crafting documentation that's as delightful to read as it is useful.
- We are fully AWS hosted. You'll get to use a range of tools and services, such as Kubernetes, Docker, Postgresql, Redis, SQS, SNS, S3, etc.
- Collaborating with product managers, designers, QA engineers and web/app engineers to help execute on product vision and drive value for our business.
- Deploying features as experiments (e.g. A/B testing) and measuring the impact.
- Scaling, improving and maintaining our system for sending push notifications and emails to our customers.
Requirements:
- Solid experience with Python and web frameworks (we use Django).
- Strong understanding modern JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS with some experience in a Component-Based UI framework (we use React)
- A firm grasp of web fundamentals and how everything fits together.
- You write robust, maintainable code that others can read with ease.
- Experience within automated testing, especially unit testing, would be majorly advantageous.
- An eagerness to improve existing codebases through thoughtful refactoring rather than patching over issues.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Here's what to achieve after your first 3 months:
- Gain deep familiarity of our tech stack, including the architecture, codebases, workflows and tooling. You should be comfortable under the hood!
- Deliver work at a suitable cadence, demonstrating efficiency and consistent progress. Ship your feature!
- Use best practises and encourage others to do the same. Lead with quality!
- Review pull requests in a timely manner including actionable, impactful and constructive feedback. Raise the bar with every PR!
- Build relationships across the organisation and collaborate effectively across product, design and other engineers. You won't be working alone!
- Take responsibility for tasks end-to-end showing reliability in agreeing on commitments and meeting them. Be the teammate everyone can count on!
- Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home.
- 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 want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so 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. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources.
- Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People's Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.
- Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You'll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses.
- Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them.
- Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work.
- 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 also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more.
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. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
