Senior Full Stack Engineer, Lyst, GB

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 Senior 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.