Engineering Lead
LystLondon, England, United Kingdom
Posted August 7, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. In 2025, Lyst joined Zozo, operators of Zozotown, the leading fashion e-commerce platform in Japan. This partnership marks a bold new era for Lyst, as we accelerate our vision and work together to transform the future of fashion shopping through AI and technology. 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.
Job Description
Lyst is looking for an experienced Engineering Lead to join a Product Development tribe. The role entails technical leadership, communication, and collaboration with product managers, engineers, analytics, QA, and designers. The successful candidate will contribute to the stability of the system, improve monitoring tools, write resilient code, and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- Experience with efficient processes
- Proven experience with web fundamentals and designing systems
- Communication: clear and humble when sharing ideas with the team
- Quality: writing readable, well-tested, and robust code
- Delivering and optimizing front-end features for a high-traffic website
- Automated testing (unit testing using React Testing Library)
- Designing and implementing APIs and backend services using Python (Django)
- Building and evolving high-performance web applications with React, TypeScript, and StoryBook
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
Benefits
- Our Ways of Working
- Time Off
- Competitive Family Leave Package
- Clothing Benefit
- Private Healthcare
- Training Allowance
- Pension Scheme
- Eye Tests and Vouchers
- Cycle-to-Work Scheme
- Transport Season Ticket Loan
- Social Events
