Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack/Back End

About Us:

Rent the Runway (RTR)  is transforming the way we get dressed by pioneering the world’s first Closet in the Cloud. Founded in 2009, RTR has disrupted the $2.4 trillion fashion industry by inspiring women with a more joyful, sustainable and financially-savvy way to feel their best every day. As the ultimate destination for circular fashion, the brand now offers infinite points of access to its shared closet via a fully customizable subscription to fashion, one-time rental or ownership. RTR offers designer apparel and accessories from hundreds of brand partners and has built in-house proprietary technology and a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation. Under CEO and Co-Founder Jennifer Hyman’s leadership, RTR has been named to CNBC’s “Disruptor 50” five times in ten years, and has been placed on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list multiple times, while Hyman herself has been named to the “TIME 100” most influential people in the world and as one of People magazine’s “Women Changing the World.”

Galway Office 

Rent The Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019.  Based in the historic Claddagh area of the city, the growing team in Galway tackles core technology challenges and influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runway’s success and continued growth. 

The Galway office is Rent the Runway's first international office outside the US and enables the company to significantly expand its Software Engineering, Product Development, Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science footprint. Rent The Runway’s Galway-based employees have the opportunity to grow their careers across several roles and career paths in Technology.

Our engineering team is smart, pragmatic, and entrepreneurial. We practice continuous integration & test-driven development, engage in constant peer code reviews & pair programming, and work hard to give back to the software community through open-source contributions.

The team, Catalog / Inventory Engineering own both the legacy and the new performant product pipeline from catalog to the app/storefront. We manage everything to do with digital inventory - from the Catalog, Pricing, Photos, to the mechanisms through which inventory is experienced by customers on site and by other internal RTR applications.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Full Stack/Back-End Leaning Engineer with server-side development experience to work on our core RESTful services. Our engineering team uses a microservices-style architecture to power our mobile app, our website, and our warehouse technologies. In this role, you will work on both new product features and technical enhancements as we believe in building for the future to enable performance and scaling. Our team works in an agile environment, building high-quality, performant software while solving high-impact and complex problems! 

What You’ll Do:

• Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment
• You’ll build intuitive and well-tested APIs for manipulating & retrieving catalog data, pricing and availability.
• You’ll optimise for performance and scalability.
• Develop clean, testable, scalable systems using Java, Kotlin, Dropwizard, SpringBoot, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Splunk, and various other open-source technologies.
• Find architectural improvements to enable rapid growth in traffic and order volumes while continuously improving developer productivity.
• You’ll deprecate and remove functionality & services that no longer suit our needs. 
• Drive technical projects to success in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Contribute technically to projects by being a hands-on coder and removing roadblocks.
• Assist in prioritisation efforts, planning future roadmaps, and providing mentorship to others.
• Deepen your knowledge and build your skills across our technology stack: ReactJS, Next.js, React-testing-library, Java/Kotlin, MySQL, Mongo, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot, Splunk, Splunk Cloud, SignalFX

About You:

• You have a degree in computer science, software engineering or 5+ years of coding experience in Java with a practical understanding of OO design principles.
• You have extensive Java skills, or any prior SpringBoot, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB and React are a plus
• You’ve shipped multiple large software projects and learned from the experiences
• Experience with distributed system performance analysis and optimisation.
• You're able to learn new tools and technologies quickly
• You have experience working as part of an Agile software development team
• Ability to understand, diagnose, and effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• High level of comfort navigating ambiguity and making the tradeoffs without compromising quality.
• Experience in modern frameworks and design patterns (MVC, REST, Swagger/OpenAPI).

Benefits:

At Rent the Runway, we’re committed to the happiness and wellbeing of our employees, and aim to create a workplace that fosters both personal and professional growth. Our inclusive benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Generous Paid Time Off including annual leave, paid bereavement, and family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves and their family.
• Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program  - because we know your newest family member(s) deserve your undivided attention.
• Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service - unplug, recharge, and have some fun.
• Competitive Stakeholder Pension - taking care of your future. 
• Comprehensive health, dental care and dependents care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first and we’ve got you covered. 
• Company-wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun!
• Hybrid Work -This hybrid role requires 2-3 days per week in our Galway, Ireland office, with the option to work 2 days remotely.

Rent the Runway is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee on any legally-recognised basis, including, but not limited to: gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, and membership of the Traveller community.

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