Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

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, jewelry, handbags, activewear and ski wear. 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.”

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack at Rent The Runway, you will be part of our dynamic engineering team in Galway, Ireland. This team is responsible for building and maintaining our web and mobile applications, as well as our warehouse operations technologies. 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 Full Stack engineers use a service-oriented architecture to power our internal mobile app, website, warehouse operations technologies, and other applications.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, testing, and deployment of fulfilment microservices and warehouse management systems.
• Find architectural and internal design improvements to enable rapid growth in traffic and order volumes.
• Drive technical projects to success and 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, and 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.

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 and JavaScript (ReactJS)
• 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 cross-functional development team
• 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 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 a hybrid role based in our Galway, Ireland office. Employees have to option to work remotely 2-3 days per week.