Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

About Rent the Runway 

Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry & changing the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud, the worlds first & largest shared designer closet. RTRs mission has remained the same since its founding: powering women to feel their best every day. Through RTR, customers can subscribe, rent items a-la-carte & shop resale from hundreds of designer brands. The Closet in the Cloud offers a wide assortment of millions of items for every occasion, from evening wear & accessories to ready-to-wear, workwear, denim, casual, maternity, outerwear, blouses, knitwear, loungewear, jewellery, handbags, activewear, ski wear, home goods & kidswear. RTR has built a two-sided discovery engine, which connects deeply engaged customers & differentiated brand partners on a powerful platform built around its brand, data, logistics & technology. Under CEO & Co-Founder Jennifer Hymans leadership, RTR has been named to CNBCs Disruptor 50 five times in ten years, & has been placed on Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies list four times, while Hyman herself has been named to the TIME 100: Most Influential People in the World" & as one of People Magazines 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 & influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runways success & continued growth. 

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

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

Our Full Stack engineers use a service-oriented architecture to power our internal mobile app, website, warehouse operations technologies, & other applications. In this role, you will work on both new product features & technical enhancements as we believe in building for the future to enable performance & scaling.

We are always interested in speaking with developing & experienced Full Stack engineers interested in joining our team. If thats you, read on for a snapshot of the type of work our Full Stack engineers do across our various teams, share your details & a member of our Talent team will be in touch!  

What Youll Do:

• Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, testing & deployment of fulfilment microservices & warehouse management systems.
• Find architectural & internal design improvements to enable rapid growth in traffic & order volumes. 
• Drive technical projects to success & provide mentorship in a fast-paced startup environment
• Develop clean, testable, scalable systems using ReactJS, Redis, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin Dropwizard, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDb, Kotlin, SpringBoot, Splunk, & various other open-source technologies.
• Deliver software on a sustainable schedule that keeps work-life balance in mind.
• Work with business stakeholders to identify software solutions to business challenges.
• Experience working as part of a cross-functional development team.

About You:

• Degree in computer science, software engineering and/or 3+ years of programming experience 
• Professional experience with OOP concepts & design patterns using Java & JavaScript (ReactJS) 
• Learned from the experience of shipping multiple large, complex software projects 
• Able to learn new tools & technologies quickly
• Experience working as part of a team software development effort
• Ability to manage your time & juggle competing priorities
• Exceptional communication skills
• Approach collaboration with curiosity & a learning mindset demonstrating a willingness to mentor & learn from teammates & foster an inclusive, empowering team dynamic

Benefits:

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

• Generous Paid Time Off including annual leave, paid bereavement, & family sick leave - every employee needs time to take care of themselves & 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, & have some fun.
• Competitive Stakeholder Pension - taking care of your future. 
• Comprehensive health, dental care & dependents care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first & weve got you covered. 
• Company wide events & outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun!
• Hybrid Work - This a hybrid role based in our Galway, Ireland office. Employees have to option to work remotely 2-3 days per week.

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, & membership of the Traveller community.

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