Senior Software Engineer, Back End

Senior Software Engineer, 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. 

About the Job: 

You’ll be working with the Customer & Order Management Engineering Team focused on services responsible for e-commerce and order management functionality.  You’ll improve the architecture, functionality, quality and continuous delivery of the service and it’s subsystems. You’ll build robust services that uphold the financial integrity of our commerce data. You’ll evolve the services to scale with the business and adapt to changes in business direction, including our push to maintain cloud stability and a leader in the circular economy.

What You'll Do:

• You’ll work to evolve our e-commerce platform, building clear domain models of orders, invoices, and payments.
• You’ll ensure financial data is clean, complete, accurate and delivered to downstream systems.
• You’ll build intuitive and well tested APIs for manipulating orders post-checkout.
• You’ll deprecate and remove services that no longer suit our needs. 
• Drive technical projects to success and provide mentorship 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
• Our engineering team working in the following stack of technologies which you will have the opportunity to deepen or upskill your knowledge of:  Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, MySql, Mongo, RabbitMQ/Kinesis, Dropwizard, Spring Boot, React, Bootstrap, Splunk, Splunk Cloud, SignalFX, GCP.

About you:

• BA/BS in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent professional development experience 
• High level of comfort working in Java or another JVM language or Python 
• SQL, with Hibernate or other JPA vendor framework advantageous  
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes/GCP/AWS
• Experience in modern frameworks and design patterns (Spring MVC or REST or Swagger/OpenAPI)
• A strong command of best practices, design patterns, and system architecture tradeoffs 
• Ability to understand, diagnose, and effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
• High level of comfort navigating ambiguity and make the tradeoffs without compromising quality
• The ideal candidate will have previous experience with cloud migration 

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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