Front End Engineer

Salary: £69,000 - 106,000 per year

Requirements:

• We value progressive enhancement and mobile-first thinking.
• We favour vanilla JavaScript and ES6 over compile-to-JS solutions.
• We use CSS with LESS and the BEM methodology.
• We work with front-end tooling such as Grunt, Make, RequireJS, Browserify, LESS, JSHint, ESLint, Karma, Mocha and Sinon, and we continually evaluate our stack.
• We also use Python, and experience working with both JavaScript and Python is important to us.
• We are looking for engineers who are excited to join an innovative team and have a real impact on our culture, growth and code.
• We value people who enjoy fixing real-world problems effectively and being challenged.
• We want engineers who care about collaboration, feedback, trust, ownership and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• We build elegant solutions to hard technical problems across client-side JavaScript and server-side Python/Django.
• We contribute to open source libraries we have created or use.
• We collaborate with product and design to build new features.
• We build and maintain internal tools and dashboards, from server-rendered pages to client-side applications built with EmberJS.
• We help improve our build processes to make deployment and iteration easier and faster.
• We write unit and integration tests.
• We create better solutions across our culture and code.
• We work in small product teams using a lean approach and consistent iteration.

Technologies:

• CSS
• Django
• ES6
• ESLint
• Grunt
• JavaScript
• Karma
• LESS
• Mocha
• Mobile
• Python
• GitHub
• Support
• SASS
• UX UI Design
• Web
• Frontend

More:

We are Lyst, a technology platform transforming the way people shop for fashion by connecting millions of consumers worldwide with leading fashion designers and stores. We have grown over 300% every year since launch in 2011 and have raised over $60M from top-tier investors including Accel, DFJ, Balderton and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors and Oscar de la Renta. We are hiring experienced JavaScript Engineers to join our team in Hoxton Square and help build a fashion commerce platform our users love and our partners value. You will work with a passionate, expert team pushing the boundaries of fashion ecommerce, and we will train and mentor you as the business grows. We care deeply about inclusion and diversity, and we also offer a clothing allowance to spend via our site.

last updated 36 week of 2026