Software Engineer - Affiliate Operations in London

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 and 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 and discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. 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.

About the Team

Affiliate Operations powers the technology that connects millions of shoppers with the world's leading fashion brands. Our squad builds the platforms, data products, marketing services, and bidding systems that drive business-critical customer acquisition, partner integrations, and revenue growth. We are a highly data-driven engineering organization. Reliability is fundamental to everything we build.

The Role

• Build Revenue-critical Platforms: You'll develop and maintain the services that power Lyst's affiliate platform, from product data pipelines to bidding systems and integrations.
• Collaborate: You'll work as part of a cross-functional squad alongside Product, Marketing, Partnerships, Analytics, and Engineering colleagues.
• Improve: You'll continuously improve our systems through better observability, automation, and thoughtful refactoring.
• Own: You'll take ownership of the systems you build, from design through to production.

Within your first 3 months, you will be fully embedded in the team, contributing to production systems and collaborating closely with Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Analytics.

The Tech Stack & Culture

We work in a "You build it, you ship it, you run it" culture with a strong focus on engineering quality, automation, and operational excellence. Our core technologies include:

• Backend: Python (primarily Django)
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, ECS
• Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, Snowflake
• Messaging: SQS, SNS
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Testing: Strong focus on automated unit and integration testing

Requirements

• Strong Engineering Fundamentals: Proven experience building production web applications using Python and Django.
• Quality Mindset: You write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Technical Curiosity: You enjoy understanding how systems work and solving complex technical problems.
• Collaboration: You communicate clearly and enjoy working in cross-functional teams.
• Ownership: You take responsibility for the systems you build.
• Growth Mindset: You embrace feedback and enjoy learning new technologies.

Benefits

• Time Off: 29 holidays per year plus 8 statutory bank holidays.
• Clothing Benefit: A clothing allowance starting at £250.
• Private Healthcare: Comprehensive healthcare scheme from day one.
• Training Allowance: Annual training allowance of £1,000.
• Pension Scheme: Minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.
• Social Events: Frequent company-wide social events.

Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role.