Software Engineer

Overview
Founded in 2009, Rent the Runway disrupts the fashion industry with the Closet in the Cloud, offering subscriptions, rental items, and resale from hundreds of designer brands.
Our mission is to empower women to feel their best every day.
Galway Office
Rent The Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019.
Based in the historic Claddagh area, the growing team tackles core technology challenges and influences the next generation of services critical to Rent The Runway's success and growth.
The Galway office is Rent the Runway's first international office outside the US and enables the company to expand its Software Engineering, Product Development, Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science footprint.
Our Galway-based employees have the opportunity to grow 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 peer code reviews & pair programming, and contribute to open-source projects.
About the Role
As a Front End Engineer at Rent the Runway, you'll work with a team focused on services for e-commerce functionality, customer notifications, and order management.
You value creativity and user experience as much as code and curiosity.
You'll adapt UI to evolving workflows and enhance the UI for customer experience agents using internal tools, while keeping front ends at a high standard of quality and introducing new architectural features to keep applications modern, performant, and maintainable.
What You'll Do
Participate in all aspects of agile software development for the user interface of internal tools powering back-of-house systems
Adapt front end applications to changes in backend APIs
Drive technical projects to success and provide mentorship in a fast-paced startup environment
Collaborate with designers and other teams to refine product features
Work with business stakeholders to identify software solutions to business challenges
Write clean, testable, and efficient code
About You
An eye for responsive design and strong attention to detail
Ability to prioritize tasks and learn new tools and technologies as needed
Experience in a cross-functional development team
Passionate about building innovative products that work behind the scenes
Experience with distributed system performance analysis and optimization
Ability to diagnose and articulate technical challenges and solutions
Ability to manage ambiguous problems and make tradeoffs without compromising quality
At Rent the Runway, we're committed to the happiness and wellbeing of our employees and aim to create a workplace that fosters growth.
Our inclusive benefits include, but are not limited to:
Generous Paid Time Off including annual leave, bereavement, and family sick leave
Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return-to-work
Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service
Competitive Stakeholder Pension
Comprehensive health and dental care from day 1
Company-wide events and outings
Hybrid Work – this is a hybrid role based in Galway, Ireland.
Option to work remotely 2-3 days per week
Equal Opportunity
Rent the Runway is an equal opportunity employer.
In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee on legally recognized bases including gender, marital status, family status, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, and membership of the Traveller community.
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Contact
If you have questions about this job or wish to apply, please contact the Talent team.
This description is intended to outline the responsibilities and qualifications for the role and is not a contract.
The company reserves the right to modify the role at any time.
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