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Rent the Runway Senior Software Engineer - Java in Galway, Ireland
Senior Software Engineer - Java at Rent the Runway (View all jobs)
Galway, Ireland
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, and work hard to give back to the software community through open-source contributions.
About the Role:
We are looking for a software engineer withstrong server-side and some frontend developmentexperience to work on our Product Security team. Our engineering team uses a microservices-style architecture to power our mobile app, our website, and our warehouse technologies. In this role, you will work on both new product features and technical enhancements as we believe in building for the future to enable performance and scaling. You’ll be part of the team that owns oursession managementandsecurity-related microservices, preventing fraud and protecting our customers’ data. In addition to this, the Product Security team is responsible for promoting and supporting security best practices across our entire network of microservices
What You’ll Do:
Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, and deployment.
Develop clean, testable, scalable systems usingJava, Kotlin, ReactJS, Dropwizard, SpringBoot, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDb, Redis, Splunk,and various other open-source technologies.
Deliver software on a sustainable schedule that keeps work-life balance in mind.
Find architectural improvements to enable rapid growth in traffic and order volumes while continuously improving developer productivity.
Work with business stakeholders to identify software solutions to business challenges.
Mentor and learn from your teammates and foster an inclusive, empowering team dynamic.
About You:
You have a degree in computer science, or software engineering or 5+ yearsof coding experience in Java with a practical understanding of OO design principles.
You’ve shipped multiple large software projects and learned from the experiences.
You're able to learn new tools and technologies quickly.
You have experience working as part of an Agile software development team.
You're able to manage your time and juggle competing priorities.
You have exceptional communication skills.
You haveextensive Java skillsor any prior SpringBoot,RabbitMQ, MySQLare a plus.
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.
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