[JOB] Platform Engineer - Lyst

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Mar 17, 2016, 3:24:47 AM3/17/16
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Hey Everyone, 

Lyst are hiring a 5th platform engineer to maintain, support and continue the build of our platform architecture. You will ensure that everything we do is super reliable, highly secure and super fast, all the time. 


TL;DR

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Lyst is a technology platform that revolutionises the way people shop for fashion. We connect millions of consumers globally with the world’s leading fashion designers and stores, giving them a simpler, more engaging and more effective shopping experience. Lyst has grown over 300% every year since launch in 2011 and has raised over $60M from top-tier investors including Accel, DFJ, Balderton and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors and Oscar de la Renta.


At the heart of Lyst is a huge data aggregator that lists millions of fashion products from hundreds of retailers. On top of this we build systems that help people discover and follow their favourite fashion brands, ensuring that all of our users are inspired and happy throughout their shopping experience.

With engineering at the heart of the business, we love building things. We have developed an environment and culture that is all about writing great software. Our team of 50 engineers and data scientists are pushing the boundary of how data and technology are used in the fashion and ecommerce space. You can find out more about the team and see some of our open source projects here: http://developers.lyst.com/

As a platform engineer; you will build, monitor and maintain the infrastructure and networks that run Lyst.com, help and advise other teams on security, architecture, and scale issues and build tools that helps everyone do this easier. 

As an engineering team we:

  • Build real products used by millions of users, predominantly in a Python based stack.
  • Deploy 10 times a day, make nearly 20 thousands lines of changes a week and take pride and ownership in what we create. 
  • Believes in working in a collaborative manner and that consistent improvement comes from sharing ideas.
  • Tests things; whether it's code or a new ideas. 
  • Actively contribute to the open source and wider tech and startup community. 

The platform team works on things like:

  • An internal PaaS implementation
  • Monitoring usage of an entirely AWS-based environment, using multiple AWS services for hosting, storage, databases, and network.
  • Support a development platform, tools and pipeline that is effective and easy to iterate with. 
  • Supporting a continuous integration environment run entirely in Docker
  • Capacity planning for new features, and ensuring they’re written with scalability in mind.
  • Evaluating supporting services for new features, would PostgreSQL perform better than Cassandra? Is a custom solution a better fit than using ElasticSearch?

We believe that there is no silver bullet to fix the problems and challenges we face: instead we encourage consistent iteration to ensure we are always solving problems. Best Idea Wins.

WHAT WE USE

Python, JavaScript, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Elasticsearch, Docker, Ember.js, Celery, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, CircleCI, Chef, Test Kitchen, Packer, StatsD, Graphite, Logstash, mcrouter, nginx

Qualifications

You will consider yourself an experienced engineer and have at least five years experience writing code and building infrastructure in high traffic environments. You will be passionate about great code, well built products and well engineered solutions. You will be happy to work in a predominantly python based environment, enjoy testing and deploying your own code and be confident using tools like Docker and Git.  

Ideally you will: 

  • Love working on server side problems that keep you awake at night.
  • Have experience working on scalable, high impact and high performing products.
  • Be comfortable creating products using a performant, typed language such as Python, C++ or Java.
  • Be confident working with changing requirements and ambiguity. We move fast, so change should be something you enjoy.
  • Have a good understanding of data structures, algorithms, TDD and APIs with an interest in microservices. Bonus points for using Microservices in production.
  • Love building tools that make your teams life easier.

Additional Information

You will be working with a passionate and expert team that loves to push the boundaries of both the fashion e-commerce space and Organic performance. You will be challenged, supported and have the opportunity to learn a lot. You will work in a fast paced, autonomous environment with like minded people who are passionate about what they do.

We care deeply about career development and helping our industry become a more inclusive and diverse place and we work hard to lead by example. Our workplace is dynamic, diverse and highly collaborative. You will join a company with:

  • A world class team of engineers and data scientists
  • 5M duplicated products detected and merged using product image features (http://www.slideshare.net/ejlbell/fashion-productdeduplication)
  • 72k crowd-sourced labels generated per day
  • 40k product gender classifications per day via deep learning
  • 500k recommended products per day
  • our internal analytics system collects 100M data points/day

...and a team that… 

  • Believes Best Idea wins, not the loudest voice in the room or the most senior
  • loves to work on lots of open source projects - https://github.com/lyst and https://github.com/SSAW 
  • Gets invited to talk at great events all over the world
and enjoy our great benefits:
  • Training and conference budget
  • A clothing allowance
  • Internal training opportunities (want to learn Python, or improve your presentation skills?)
  • Desk beer Fridays
  • A well stocked kitchen and fridge
  • Things that keep you happy and healthy: Yoga in the office regularly, football teams, netball teams, board game nights and burger eating clubs.
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