The RealReal

The RealReal

Senior Software Engineer / Ruby or Elixir/ Full-Stack/ Remote

As part of the engineering team, your work will directly impact the supply side of our business. You will improve product intake funnels, user account pages related to their sales, customer payment processes, and integrate with tools used by business units such as Sales, Marketing, and BI. 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 on our company.

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 mentor junior 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 any of Ruby, Elixir, 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.
  • Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent
  • Experience with Elixir, Phoenix.
  • Advanced CS degree or equivalent

Apply to this job – https://www.therealreal.com/careers/5074311002#content

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.


About The RealReal

EngineeringEngineers at The Realreal are exposed to the latest technology and a data-driven culture on a daily basis. Our team is friendly, helpful, collaborative, and building real solutions that are core to our business. We're tackling some exciting problems in the sustainable fashion space, such as using machine learning technology to authenticate consigned items as genuine, simplifying consignment logistics, personalizing recommendations, optimizing pricing, and much more! The RealReal is a global company and we recognize that great talent can live anywhere, that is why we are open to talent in all of North and South America for the majority of our Engineering roles. We're also one of the largest users of Elixir in the United States and The RealReal is an active participant in the Elixir community.Machine Learning & Data ScienceWe use cutting edge models solve problems in the computer vision, constrained optimization, and the personalization space. Our collaborative and high-caliber team directly impacts all areas of the business through the use of computer vision, machine learning, and big data tools. We are constantly evaluating the best tooling to use in MLOps to streamline our output.At The RealReal, we do full stack ML on the most interesting projects in a wide array of fields, always pushing the limits.ITWe believe that new technology allows us to look at a problem in a new light and possibly find a better solution to the issue at hand.Our IT team provides support for application, hardware, and networking issues for our eCommerce company.We are responsible for prioritizing mission critical tasks and coordinating the construction and expansion of our systems for a company, at scale.We build for the future, see around corners, and focus on automating current and future processes through scripting.