Senior Software Engineer

Rent the Runway (RTR)  is transforming the way we get dressed by pioneering the world’s first Closet in the Cloud. Founded in 2009, RTR has disrupted the $2.4 trillion fashion industry by inspiring women with a more joyful, sustainable and financially-savvy way to feel their best every day. As the ultimate destination for circular fashion, the brand now offers infinite points of access to its shared closet via a fully customizable subscription to fashion, one-time rental or ownership. RTR offers designer apparel and accessories from hundreds of brand partners and has built in-house proprietary technology and a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation. 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 multiple times.

Our Full Stack engineers use a microservices-style architecture to power our internal mobile app, website, warehouse operations technologies, and other applications. 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 will contribute to our homegrown Warehouse Management System (WMS) that powers our warehouses, used by thousands of employees. 

• →Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, and deployment of the operations stack microservices to Google Cloud Platform.
• →Find architectural and internal design improvements to improve the performance of key product features.
• →Develop clean, testable, scalable systems using Java, ReactJS, Redis, JavaScript, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB, Kotlin, SpringBoot, Splunk, and various other open-source technologies.
• →Deliver software on a sustainable schedule that keeps work-life balance in mind.
• →Collaborate closely in an equal partnership with our business, product and engineering teams.
• →Have a significant voice both in what you work on and how the work is carried out.
• →Work with business stakeholders to identify software solutions to business challenges.
• →Experience working as part of a cross-functional development team.
• →Use Agentic AI coding daily.

• Degree in computer science, software engineering and 7+ years of programming experience. 
• Professional experience with OOP concepts and design patterns using Java and JavaScript (ReactJS).
• Learned from the experience of 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.
• Desire to drive serious business impact and a bias to action. You like to move fast, you follow through, and you’re accountable to the results. 
• Owner’s mindset. No job is too big or too small, and you always leave things better than you found them.
• Approach collaboration with curiosity and a learning mindset, demonstrating a willingness to mentor and learn from teammates and foster an inclusive, empowering team dynamic.