About Rent the Runway:

Rent the Runway is disrupting the $1.7 trillion global fashion industry by introducing clothing rental as a utility in women’s everyday lives and empowering women to feel like their best selves everyday. We have pioneered the Closet in the Cloud and believe that every person globally will soon have a subscription to fashion. Since our launch in late 2009, we have raised $190M from top-tier investors and built one of the most beloved brands on earth. We are proud to be both a profitable and high-growth business, with a loyal 6MM-strong customer base who share the experience of renting as being empowering and smart.

Our employees have a revolutionary spirit that permeates our culture. We’ve built proprietary technology, a one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation, stores of the future, a viral brand, relationships with hundreds of fashion brands - and we are obsessed with continuing to game change our customer experience. We are also trying to revolutionize entrepreneurship itself - proving that diverse teams produce outsized impact. The Rent the Runway Foundation, which our two co-founders launched together in 2015, helps tens of thousands of female entrepreneurs build and scale their own businesses with the mission of founders more clearly representing the demographics of this country.

About our Engineering Team:

Our engineering team works on product-oriented problems across the boundaries of e-commerce, mobile, analytics and shipping/fulfillment. The backbone of our business is our custom logistics management system, which gives us the crucial ability to deliver the right product to the right user at the right time - a simple goal with a complex solution. We use data, engineering and algorithms to create a personalized website and an adaptive supply chain to fulfill our commitment to an amazing customer experience.

Engineers at Rent the Runway solve real business challenges and have a tangible impact on the success of the company. Some engineers work on cross-functional teams devoted to specific parts of our product, while other teams focus on functions like data engineering and DevOps. Our engineers come from different backgrounds, industries, and walks of life - and we all contribute to a collaborative, product-driven culture across our organization.

About the role:

iOS Engineers at Rent the Runway have a passion for the mobile/tablet space that goes beyond just engineering. We try out all the new apps, check out the latest changes from Apple to stay on the bleeding edge, and are always striving to make our apps the best in the app store. The app landscape is constantly shifting and our team is always looking to move with it.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, and deployment
• Deliver software on schedule
• Work with business stakeholders to define our mobile roadmap as we explore new devices, operating systems, and screen sizes
• Design scalable solutions
• Work collaboratively with UI/UX and Product stakeholders that are experts in responsive design and user experience for mobile devices and tablets

Qualifications:

• Strong background in computer science and software engineering, including strong understanding of OO programming 
• At least 2+ years experience in iOS development, with a concentration on native application development
• Ideally have at least one iOS App published in the App Store (a commercial App is a plus)
• Experience with 3rd party frameworks such as AFNetworking, Cocoapods and CI tools
• Experience of unit testing, automated testing and debugging of mobile apps
• Familiarity with fundamental mobile technologies and device capabilities
• Ability to learn new tools and technologies quickly
• Experience working as part of a team software development effort
• Effective time-management skills, including schedule estimation and the ability to manage several competing priorities
• Exceptional communication skills
• Proficiency with Objective-C or Swift