Software Engineer, LYST
Partner Marketing Solutions
Global fashion search & discovery platform
Job no longer available
Global fashion search & discovery platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the category-leading platform that the world's fashion lovers use to decide what to buy.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 2 - 3 years of professional experience
- Communication: You are able to explain your ideas clearly and transform them into actions. You will be assisting in coming up with solutions to complex problems whilst maintaining and monitoring existing applications
- Quality: You strive to write code that is readable, well tested and robust in production. You are not afraid to suggest and implement new ideas that will improve the general workflow of you and your team
- Motivation: You understand and are motivated by the challenge of building scalable, reliable distributed systems in a start up environment
- You have good experience with Python and are up to date on best practices
- Not essential, but are keen to work with FE technologies such as React and TypeJS. You will be responsible for contributing to the development and maintenance of some public facing web applications wherever needed
- You have experience in using traditional relational databases (such as Postgres) and have good intuition for how to write efficient SQL queries. You will also be required to use NoSql databases wherever applicable and are able to differentiate between relational and non-relational database use cases
What the job involves
- Backend systems: You will be responsible for working on and maintaining multiple backend microservices across different domains
- Frontend development: The team currently owns multiple web applications that interact with our own backend microservices. You will have the opportunity to work on building out such services as we look to improve those offerings
- Data engineering: Designing ETL pipelines that process data from our data warehouse / data lake
- We work mainly in Python, running on a range of AWS technologies such as S3, ECS and SQS and RDS, along with non-AWS tools such as Snowflake, DBT, EKS, CircleCI, Docker and Github
- We have high engineering standards, practice comprehensive testing, code reviews, continuous integration and continuous deployment across all our engineering teams
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Lyst is a global fashion tech company and premium shopping app, serving its users with luxury fashion items and products. It lists over 8.5 million items from over 17,000 of the world’s leading brands.
The company boasts a decade of experience, and stands out in the fashion space for its centring of data and technology. By combining an agile mentality with a proven business model, Lyst appears to have struck the right balance between foundations and structure, autonomy and pace.
With over 160 million yearly customers, the scope of Lyst is clear. And there is no indication it won't continue down its path of success for a long time to come.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2021
$85m
LATE VC
Jun 2020
$5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $200.5m
Company benefits
- Learning and development budget
- Discounted eye tests and glasses
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Childcare vouchers
- Transport season ticket loans
- Private Healthcare by Vitality
- Team meet-ups, social events, sports and exercise events
- 29 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Emma McFerran
(CEO & Board Member)Also Board Member at The Joy Club. Was a Lawyer at Atypical Law Firm, Consultant at Aon Hewitt and Associate at Latham & Watkins.
Chris Morton
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Oxford. Also Fellow (Innovation) at the Royal College of Art and Advisor at Clarity AI and Granular Energy.
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