Engineering Manager – Shopping Experience
Lyst
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Build a high-performing, psychologically safe environment where engineers can do their best work.
- Ensure strategy turns into predictable, high-quality delivery.
- Guide architectural decisions, uphold code quality standards, and manage technical debt.
- Act as a bridge between engineering and the wider business, translating complex technical concepts into clear actionable insights.
- Build strong relationships with your direct reports, understand their motivations and career aspirations, and establish clear growth plans.
- Evaluate existing agile practices and implement targeted improvements.
- Partner with Product and Engineering Leadership to shape a 6-month product and technical roadmap.
- Deliver a high-impact initiative that improves the customer journey for our 160M+ annual users.
Requirements
- People-First Mindset: Proven experience managing and mentoring engineers. You know how to inspire teams, build a strong engineering culture, and drive meaningful performance conversations.
- Delivery Expertise: You balance people with structured and data-driven approaches. You know how to use Agile/Lean processes to make delivery painless and predictable. You are comfortable contributing across the stack and pairing with engineers to unblock, mentor, and raise the bar.
- Technical Expertise: You have a strong background in software engineering building web and/or app products and system design. You can decompose complex problems and guide a team toward pragmatic, scalable architectural solutions.
- Communication: You can explain technical risks to non-technical stakeholders and translate business goals into engineering tasks.
- Strategic Thinking: You can balance the immediate need to ship with the long-term health, reliability, and scalability of the platform.
- Experience in building high-scale consumer or e-commerce platforms is a strong plus, particularly within **Python, React, or iOS ecosystems.**
Benefits
- Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on **Tuesdays** and **Thursdays**, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home.
- Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst’s holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
- Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.
- Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service.
- Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start.
- Training Allowance: We’re big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources.
- Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People’s Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.
- Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You’ll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses.
- Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them.
- Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work.
- Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more.
- Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on **Tuesdays** and **Thursdays**, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonReactiOSsoftware engineeringsystem designAgileLeanarchitectural solutionscode quality standardstechnical debt
Soft Skills
people-first mindsetmentoringinspiring teamscommunicationstrategic thinkingrelationship buildingperformance conversationsunderstanding motivationsgrowth planningevaluating practices