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.
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.
We are always interested in speaking with developing and experienced Backend engineers interested in joining our team. If that's you, read on for a snapshot of the type of work our Backend engineers do across our various teams! About the role: As a Backend Engineer at Rent the Runway, you will work with an enthusiastic team of engineers focused on serving products (apparel and beyond!) across the RTR platform. You'll improve the architecture, functionality, quality and continuous delivery of the service and its subsystems. You'll integrate product data with our in-house Systems. You'll build internal tools for our partnering teams. You'll work in an agile environment and build high quality, performant software while solving high impact and complex problems!
What You'll Do: You'll deprecate and remove services that no longer suit our needs.Contribute technically to projects by being a hands-on coder and removing roadblocks in an agile software development environment.Assist in prioritisation efforts, planning future roadmaps, and providing mentorship to others.Deepen your knowledge and build your skills across our technology stack: Java, Kotlin, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Dropwizard, Spring Boot, React, Bootstrap, Splunk, SignalFX.About you: BA/BS in Computer Science, a related degree, or demonstrable practical experience.A strong command of best practices, design patterns, and system architecture tradeoffs.Knowledge of various types of data stores, and their pros-and-cons.Experience with distributed system performance analysis and optimisation.Ability to understand, diagnose, and effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.High level of comfort navigating ambiguity and making tradeoffs without compromising quality.Experience in modern frameworks and design patterns (MVC, REST, Swagger/OpenAPI).The ideal candidate will have previous experience with cloud migration – refactor & re-architecture of consumer facing applications and data stores.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.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 care and dependents care from day 1 of employment.Company wide events and outings.Hybrid Work - our corporate employees have the option to work remotely 3 days a week, in accordance with Company policies.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.
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