Fullstack Engineer, Consumer Platform

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About Us:

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, accessories and home decor from 700+ brand partners and has built in-house proprietary technology and a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation. 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 multiple 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.”

About the Team:

Our Engineering team is responsible for building, deploying, maintaining, enhancing, our e-commerce platforms & reverse logistics operation that operates from multiple fulfillment centers & drop boxes across the country. The Consumer Engineering team is responsible for all customer facing interactions and features including our site, app, subscriptions systems, and marketing funnels.  We practice continuous integration & test-driven development, and engage in constant peer code reviews & pair programming.

About the Job:

As an Engineer on our Consumer Platform team, you will work with a passionate group of engineers to improve the scale and performance of our main customer site and its underlying systems. You’ll help revamp our public APIs, restructure our site architecture, and fine-tune service calls for optimal performance. 

What You’ll Do:

  • Write clean, testable, and efficient code
  • Build components and systems to be used by our product engineers
  • Provide technical leadership and insight based on your skills and experience to improve scalability and performance in our Consumer architecture
  • Assist in the planning and execution in migrating our Consumer services to the cloud
  • Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, and deployment
  • Help the team in decision making and prioritization against our company and team objectives
  • Provide mentorship to junior engineers and lead by example 

About You:

  • You have 3+ years of professional full stack development experience and a high level of comfort with Javascript/React/Redux/Java/Linux/MySQL/MongoDB/SQL
  • You have previous experience building performant web applications at scale
  • You have experience with distributed system performance analysis and optimisation
  • You have experience in modern frameworks and design patterns (MVC, REST, Swagger/OpenAPI)
  • You have a passion for bringing great products into our world through collaboration and ingenuity
  • You're able to understand, diagnose, and effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
  • You're able to handle ambiguous problems and make the tradeoffs without compromising quality
  • You have a strong command of best practices, design patterns, and system architecture tradeoffs
  • You have knowledge of various types of data stores, and their pros-and-cons

Benefits:

At Rent the Runway, we’re committed to the 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:

  • Paid Time Off including vacation, 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!
  • Exclusive employee subscription and rental discounts -  to ensure you experience the magic of renting the runway (and give us valued feedback!).
  • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, FSA and dependent care from day 1 of employment - Your health comes first and we’ve got you covered.
  • 401k match - an investment in your future.
  • Company wide events and outings - our team spirit is no joke - we know how to have fun!
  • Hybrid Work - when our corporate employees return to the office post COVID they will have the option to work remotely 2-3 days a week, in accordance with Company policies. 

COVID-19 VACCINE REQUIREMENT:

RTR is requiring all US corporate employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 in order to work in person, unless an employee requires a reasonable accommodation for medical or religious reasons.  If you believe that you may require an accommodation, please apply for any roles that interest you and if hired, you will receive information on how to request a reasonable accommodation after your start date. RTR will evaluate all such requests in accordance with Company policy and applicable law.   


Rent the Runway is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with applicable law, we prohibit discrimination against any applicant or employee based on any legally-recognized basis, including, but not limited to: race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age (40 and over), national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran status, uniformed service member status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

More Information on Rent the Runway
Rent the Runway operates in the eCommerce industry. The company is located in New York, NY. Rent the Runway was founded in 2009. It has 1000 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Partners with nonprofits, Friends outside of work, Eat lunch together, Intracompany committees, Open door policy and OKR operational model. To see all jobs at Rent the Runway, click here.
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