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Job Description
Software Engineer III, Backend
Rent the Runway is a fashion technology company that is disrupting the trillion-dollar fashion industry by providing a shared designer closet experience.
The company's mission is to empower women to feel their best every day through its subscription-based service, which offers a wide assortment of designer items for every occasion.
The company has a strong technology platform that connects customers and brand partners through a powerful discovery engine, data, logistics, and technology.
The Galway office is Rent the Runway's first international office outside the US and is responsible for tackling core technology challenges and influencing the next generation of services critical to the company's success.
About the Role:
- Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment for the user interface of internal tools that power back-of-house systems.
- Find architectural and internal design improvements to enable rapid growth in traffic and order volumes.
- Deliver software on a sustainable schedule that keeps work-life balance in mind.
- Work to evolve the 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.
About You:
- Degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Professional experience with OOP concepts and design patterns using Java/Kotlin and SQL, with Hibernate or other JPA vendor framework advantageous.
- 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.
Benefits:
- 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.