About the job
About Us:
Lyst is a premier global fashion shopping platform, established in London in 2010. We serve over 160 million shoppers annually, providing them with an extensive selection of premium and luxury fashion items. Our platform curates products from 27,000 of the world’s top brands and retailers. In 2025, Lyst became part of Zozo, the operator of Zozotown, Japan's leading fashion e-commerce platform. This partnership propels us into a transformative era as we leverage AI and technology to redefine the future of fashion shopping.
At Lyst, our customer-centric approach drives us to create an inspiring, fulfilling, and personalized shopping experience. We recognize that while fashion is captivating, the shopping process can often be frustrating. We harness technology, data, and creativity to enhance joy, provide greater selection, and minimize disappointments. Our mission is to empower fashion shoppers to make informed choices while enabling our partners to reach their ideal audiences as the leading destination in fashion retail.
The Opportunity:
We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join our Product Listings team. In this role, you will collaborate with our engineers, designers, product managers, and analysts to enhance the shopping experience for fashion enthusiasts. Your contributions will focus on maintaining and optimizing our product data and marketing systems, ensuring accurate product information that supports user journeys and marketing effectiveness.
As a data-driven team, we prioritize decisions based on empirical evidence. You will be expected to advocate for a data-centric mindset, propose practical experiments to validate hypotheses, and embrace insights provided by data. Your role will involve driving technical advancements and innovations within our systems, partnering closely with your product manager and technical leadership.
Within Your First Three Months, You Will:
- Engage with all aspects of our systems, including testing, documentation, coding, and processes.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, analysts, QA, and designers.
- Enhance system stability by improving our monitoring tools.
- Write robust, well-tested code (unit, integration, etc.) and ensure quality control.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure only practical code is deployed to production.
- Exhibit curiosity about our platforms' architecture and how they operate.
- Contribute to team ceremonies and influence the team's working methodologies (donuts may be involved).
- Collaborate within the Product Development tribe to ensure the success of the Lyst Marketplace, working with key teams from Discovery and Customer Relations.

