Software Engineer III, BackEnd

Software Engineer III, Backend

About Rent the Runway 

Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry and changing the way women get dressed through the Closet in the Cloud, the world’s first and largest shared designer closet. RTR’s 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 and 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 and accessories to ready-to-wear, workwear, denim, casual, maternity, outerwear, blouses, knitwear, loungewear, jewellery, handbags, activewear, ski wear, home goods and kidswear. RTR has built a two-sided discovery engine, which connects deeply engaged customers and differentiated brand partners on a powerful platform built around its brand, data, logistics and technology. 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 four 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 Role:

You’ll be working with the Commerce Services 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 its 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:

• Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, and deployment for the user Interface of internal tools that power our back-of-house systems
• Find architectural and internal design improvements to enable rapid growth in traffic and order volumes. 
• Our engineering team works in the following stack of technologies which you will have the opportunity to deepen or upskill your knowledge:  Java, Kotlin, MySql, Mongo, RabbitMQ/Kinesis, Spring Boot, Bootstrap, Splunk, Splunk Cloud, SignalFX, GCP.
• Deliver software on a sustainable schedule that keeps work-life balance in mind.
• 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.
• 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 and design patterns using Java/Kotlin SQL, with Hibernate or other JPA vendor framework advantageous 
• Learned from the experience of shipping multiple large, complex software projects 
• Able to learn new tools and technologies quickly
• Experience working as part of a team software development effort
• Ability to manage your time and juggle competing priorities
• Exceptional communication skills
• Approach collaboration with curiosity and a learning mindset demonstrating a willingness to mentor and learn from teammates and foster an inclusive, empowering team dynamic

Benefits:

At Rent the Runway, we’re committed to the happiness and wellbeing of our employees, and aim to create a workplace that fosters 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 is a hybrid role based in our Galway, Ireland office. Employees have the 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, and membership of the Traveller community.

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