Senior Software Engineer (Ruby, Elixir, or Erlang)

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on our Buyer Engineering team. As part of the buyer engineering team, you'll support our public-facing website, backend systems, iOS and Android applications that power the purchase experience. You'll push the boundaries of search personalization, SEO, and design as we make our customer experience even easier and better to shop. You'll also build supporting systems and integrate them with technology from around the company to improve buyer-related operations. We are looking for full-stack engineers who bring fresh ideas, enjoy learning every day, willing to expand their development skills and solve challenging problems, and make a huge visible impact for our company.

** This position can be fully remote **

 

What You Get To Do Every Day

• Produce high quality, performant, testable code
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Pair up with someone to work together on a feature
• Learn something new, and collaborate with other engineers
• Deploy to production multiple times
• Help define technical strategy and architecture
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in their own area of expertise

What You Bring To The Role

• 5+ years of professional web application / full-stack development experience.
• Fluency with Ruby, Elixir, or Erlang
• Strong understanding of web technologies: HTML5, Javascript, CSS/SASS, REST, JSON
• Strong understanding of web-app performance fundamentals and related dev tools
• Strong database fundamentals and experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Worked with search engines such as ElasticSearch, Lucene, Solr
• Experience using async message queues
• Mastery of git and Github workflows
• Advanced CS degree or equivalent work experience

The RealReal is the world's largest online marketplace for authenticated, resale luxury goods, with more than 20 million members. With a rigorous authentication process overseen by experts, The RealReal provides a safe and reliable platform for consumers to buy and sell their luxury items. We have hundreds of in-house gemologists, horologists and brand authenticators who inspect thousands of items each day. As a sustainable company, we give new life to pieces by thousands of brands across numerous categories-including women's and men's fashion, fine jewelry and watches, art and home-in support of the circular economy. We make selling effortless with free virtual appointments, in-home pickup, drop-off and direct shipping. We do all of the work for consignors, including authenticating, using AI and machine learning to determine optimal pricing, photographing and listing their items, as well as handling shipping and customer service. At our 13 retail locations, including our eight shoppable stores, customers can sell, meet with our experts and receive free valuations.

The RealReal is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants for a position regardless of arrest or conviction records, consistent with legal requirements.    GHR2318.

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