Front End Engineer

Overview

Join Lyst as a JavaScript Engineer to help the fashion platform exceed shopper expectations and deliver new features. Work in a product-driven, cross-disciplinary team with designers and data scientists to shape tooling, UI components, and internal dashboards. You’ll contribute to open-source libraries, improve build and deployment processes, and write comprehensive tests. This role offers mentorship, a culture of collaboration, and real impact on a fast-growing fashion tech business.

Pay / Benefits

• clothing allowance

Responsibilities

• Solve complex JS (client-side) and/or Python/Django (server-side) problems
• Contribute to open-source libraries such as Baustein and inlinify
• Collaborate with product and design to implement new features
• Build and maintain internal tools and dashboards (server-rendered and EmberJS apps)
• Improve build processes for faster deployment and iteration
• Write unit and integration tests
• Develop personal skills and contribute to community events

Key requirements

• Progressive enhancement mindset
• Mobile-first approach
• JavaScript proficiency (prefer vanilla JS; ES6)
• CSS with LESS (potential move to Sass) and BEM methodology
• Front-end tooling familiarity (Grunt, Make, RequireJS, Browserify, LESS, JHint, ESLint, Karma, Mocha, Sinon)
• Python experience and understanding (JS and Python are complementary)

• Collaborative
• Feedback-oriented
• Ownership and accountability
• JavaScript (vanilla, ES6)
• Python
• EmberJS

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