15h Left Software Engineer III

Overview

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 is 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.

Rent The Runway established its European Technology Hub in Galway in April 2019. Based in the historic Claddagh area, 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. 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.

We are always interested in speaking with developing and experienced BE engineers who are interested in joining our team. If that’s you, read on for a snapshot of the type of work our BE engineers do across our various teams, share your details and a member of our Talent team will be in touch.

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 with a stack including Java, Kotlin, MySQL, Mongo, RabbitMQ/Kinesis, Spring Boot, Bootstrap, Splunk, Splunk Cloud, SignalFx, GCP; you will deepen or upskill in these technologies
- Deliver software on a sustainable schedule that keeps work-life balance in mind
- Evolve our e-commerce platform, building clear domain models of orders, invoices, and payments
- Ensure financial data is clean, complete, accurate and delivered to downstream systems
- 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
- Experience 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, showing willingness to mentor and learn from teammates and foster an inclusive, empowering team dynamic

Rent the Runway is committed to the happiness and wellbeing of our employees, and aims 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
- Universal Paid Parental Leave for both parents + flexible return to work program
- Paid Sabbatical after 5 years of continuous service
- Competitive Stakeholder Pension
- Comprehensive health, dental and dependents care from day 1
- Company wide events and outings
- 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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This role requires an in-office presence in our Galway office, a minimum of 2 days a week.

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