Software Engineer

About Lyst Lyst is a leading fashion marketplace - we partner with the world’s top fashion brands and stores to provide people with a personalised way to discover and shop for fashion online. From launch in 2011, Lyst is growing quickly and already generates tens of millions of dollars in sales for the hundreds of brands, retailers and publishers it partners with around the world. Lyst is backed by a range of all-star of investors including Accel (Facebook, Spotify), DFJ (Skype), and those behind Oscar de la Renta, Smythson and Tory Burch. Our London HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, housed in an iconic building - formerly occupied by the White Cube Gallery - symbolising East London creativity. When we aren’t making shopping for fashion even better for our millions of customers, we have fun together with weekly yoga, poker, football, pub quizzes, etc. We care deeply about helping the tech industry become a more inclusive and diverse place and we work hard to lead by example. Lyst is looking for a Software Engineer to work on our platform and APIs. You'll help us: scale our increasing traffic build APIs for external developers build a distributed e-commerce platform implement various machine learning algorithms (classification, information retrieval, analysis) Requirements: Appropriate, commercial experience with Python. Highly proficient in a Unix/Linux environment. Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, headers, asset loading / caching). Understanding of CS concepts such as: common data structures and algorithms, profiling/optimization. Ideally knowledge of ecommerce.