Backend Engineer - Checkout Integration

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. We are a scale-up business, 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.

The role 

We're looking for a new engineer to join our Checkout Integrations squad to help Lyst work on transforming the shopping experience of fashion lovers. You will work closely with our current engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to develop new product features. 

As a member of the checkout integration team, you’ll work on the backend of the checkout processing pipeline, collaborating with payment and e-commerce integrations. The team is responsible for ensuring smooth, reliable order processing with our retailers’ integrations to ensure the development of our new Marketplace.

We are data-driven and make decisions based on empirical results. You share the data mindset, can suggest pragmatic experiments to prove a hypothesis, and are willing to be proven wrong by data. Your role will be to drive technical improvements and innovations to the system through partnering with your product manager and tech leadership. 

Within the first three months, you will be able to:

• Contribute to every part of our system, tests, documentation, as well as code and process.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, analytics, QA and designers.
• Ensure the stability of our system by improving the monitoring tools we use.
• Write resilient code that is well tested (unit, integration, etc.) and quality controlled.
• Engage in code reviews to ensure pragmatic code makes it to production.
• Be curious —not just the code, but the architecture of our platforms and everything that makes them work and the product.
• Participate in all team ceremonies and have direct input in the team's ways of working and (sometimes with donuts)
• Work inside Product Development tribe towards the success of the Lyst Marketplace, collaborating with key teams from Discovery, CRM or Paid Marketing. 
• Gain expertise over our tools and services: Python, Docker, Github Actions, PostgreSQL, etc.

About the team

• We build integrations with an increasing number of retailers and platforms (e.g. Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Open Cloud Commerce, etc.).
• We solve integration issues with retailers and focus on increasing the order success rate.

• We document and be accountable for the system's stability - No blame game.
• We scale, improve and maintain our integrated checkout system for processing customer orders.
• We strive to understand business requirements to improve monitoring.
• Python is our bread and butter (sold separately).
• We are fully AWS hosted and use a range of tools and setups: ECS, Docker, GitHub, GHA, Postgresql, Redis, SQS, and SNS.

• Proven experience with Django/Python and web fundamentals.
• Familiar with React, modern JavaScript/Typescript, HTML, CSS.
• Communication: You can communicate clearly and be humble when sharing ideas with everyone on the team. You can explain your ideas clearly and transform them into plans. You can design the solution to a complex problem.
• Quality - You strive to write code that is readable by everyone, well tested and robust in production. Code without rigorous tests helps no one. 
• You aren’t afraid to refactor existing code in favour of working around shortcomings.
• A thorough knowledge of automated testing, particularly unit testing.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines like GitHub Actions (GHA).
• Bonus points if you’ve worked for an e-commerce company and/or are familiar with Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Cloud Commerce or any other e-commerce system.

Things that matter to us:

• You are curious at heart and like to take ownership of something to make it better.
• You like to focus on quality and improving systems.
• Being confronted with a difficult or strange problem makes you feel like a detective who wants to crack the mystery.
• Sense of ownership over products, features and services the team looks after
• You have good experience dealing with legacy code.
• You like to build and improve dashboards to follow technical and business metrics.
• You have experience building for fault tolerance.

• 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.