Beautylish

Our in-house systems include consumer-facing web properties, as well as internal tools used by teams across the company: merchandising, marketing, inventory & fulfillment, creative, and finance. The codebase is Python on the backend, React + some pre-React "legacy" JS on the frontend. We like Black and Prettier, because we've found they make code easier to work with. We make heavy use of AWS: EC2/ECS, RDS (Aurora MySQL), DynamoDB, ElastiCache (Redis Cluster), SQS, Lambda & Step Functions. We are a few years in on some great ongoing, engineering-led projects: - the project of migrating some key functions/workloads out of the main Python "monolith" into packaged libraries & services. - the project of abstracting out certain ad-hoc systems into rule driven systems, which can then be more easily maintained, and be better exposed to (internal) end users. - the project of building out and improving our testing/CI/CD pipelines. This all happens alongside the development & maintenance of new customer facing features, as well as work done in support of interesting business initiatives and opportunities.

Beautylish was founded in the fall of 2010, and it still going strong almost twelve years later -- a fact I largely attribute to the pragmatism, intelligence, flexibility, and hard work of the three founders and the team leaders they have selected and developed over the years.

I have found the leadership team here to be very competent, flexible, fair-minded, and supportive. They have taken a long-term, all-stakeholder approach to building a business.