Software Engineer - Affiliate Operations

About the Team

Affiliate Operations powers the technology that connects millions of shoppers with the world's leading fashion brands. Our squad builds the platforms, data products, marketing services, and bidding systems that drive business-critical customer acquisition, partner integrations, and revenue growth.

We are a highly data-driven engineering organization. We validate ideas through experimentation, measure success through business outcomes, and continuously improve our platforms using evidence. Our work involves large-scale data processing and distributed systems, requiring us to remain highly reliable while evolving to support new markets and acquisition channels.

Reliability is fundamental to everything we build. We invest heavily in automation, observability, and operational excellence to reduce manual effort. We are also exploring how AI can transform our engineering productivity and marketing platforms. We operate in a "You build it, you ship it" culture where engineers have significant ownership- from proposing technical solutions and shaping architecture to shipping features and operating services in production.

As a highly collaborative squad, you'll work closely with Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Analytics to launch new capabilities and pioneer emerging opportunities such as Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO).

You'll develop and maintain the services that power Lyst's affiliate platform, from product data pipelines to bidding systems and integrations. Your work will directly support revenue generation while ensuring our systems remain reliable, scalable, and ready to support new markets and acquisition channels.

You'll work as part of a cross-functional squad alongside Product, Marketing, Partnerships, Analytics, and Engineering colleagues. Together you'll improve platform effectiveness, launch new capabilities, and reduce manual operational effort across the business.

You'll continuously improve our systems through better observability, automation, and thoughtful refactoring. You'll help evolve our architecture and engineering practices to ensure our platforms remain resilient as they scale.

You'll take ownership of the systems you build, from design through to production. You'll contribute to technical decisions, participate in code reviews, and help ensure high standards of quality, reliability, and maintainability across the platform.

You'll be fully embedded in the team, contributing to production systems and collaborating closely with Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Analytics. You'll have shipped meaningful improvements to our platform, gained confidence working across our services and data pipelines, identified opportunities to improve reliability and automation, and become a trusted contributor to technical discussions and product delivery.

We work in a "You build it, you ship it, you run it" culture with a strong focus on engineering quality, automation, and operational excellence.

Our core technologies include:

• Backend:
  Python (primarily Django)
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, ECS
• Data:
  PostgreSQL, Redis, Snowflake
• Messaging: SQS, SNS
• CI/CD:
  Git Hub Actions
• Testing:
  Strong focus on automated unit and integration testing

Strong Engineering Fundamentals: Proven experience building production web applications using Python and Django, with a solid understanding of software engineering principles and modern backend development.

Quality Mindset: You write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and understand the value of automated testing, continuous integration, and long-term maintainability. You're comfortable improving existing systems through thoughtful refactoring.

Technical Curiosity: You enjoy understanding how systems work, solving complex technical problems, and continuously improving architecture, performance, and reliability.

Collaboration: You communicate clearly, enjoy working in cross-functional teams, and can explain technical ideas to both engineering and non-engineering colleagues.

Ownership: You take responsibility for the systems you build, proactively identify opportunities for improvement, and enjoy solving operational as well as technical challenges.

Growth Mindset: You embrace feedback, enjoy learning new technologies, and use data to validate ideas and improve customer outcomes.

Experience with React, Type Script, Git Hub Actions, AWS, modern CI/CD pipelines, or…