Senior Software Engineer, Back End

Senior Software Engineer, Back End 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. We enjoy a close relationship with our users and stakeholders which enable us to act upon direct feedback in a positive manner when delivering features, at the same time giving us a great sense of job satisfaction.  About the Job:  You’ll be working with the Customer & Order Management 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 it’s 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: 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. You’ll deprecate and remove services that no longer suit our needs.  Drive technical projects to success and provide mentorship in a fast-paced startup environment Contribute technically to projects by being a hands-on coder and removing roadblocks Assist in prioritisation efforts, planning future roadmaps, and providing mentorship to others Our engineering team working in the following stack of technologies which you will have the opportunity to deepen or upskill your knowledge of:  Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, MySql, Mongo, RabbitMQ/Kinesis, Dropwizard, Spring Boot, React, Bootstrap, Splunk, Splunk Cloud, SignalFX, GCP. About you: BA/BS in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent professional development experience  High level of comfort working in Java or another JVM language or Python  SQL, with Hibernate or other JPA vendor framework advantageous   Working knowledge of Kubernetes/GCP/AWS Experience in modern frameworks and design patterns ( Spring MVC or REST or Swagger/OpenAPI ) A strong command of best practices, design patterns, and system architecture tradeoffs  Ability to understand, diagnose, and effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions High level of comfort navigating ambiguity and make the tradeoffs without compromising quality The ideal candidate will have previous experience with cloud migration  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 - 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, including, but not limited to: gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, and membership of the Traveller community. #LI-EM1