Software Engineer - Contractor(Remote - Latin America)

The RealReal Seller team is looking for a kind and curious Software Engineer who enjoys solving challenging problems and working with Elixir, Javascript and React. The Seller team supports experiences across our website and applications for customers consigning goods with The RealReal. It also supports marketing and consignor relations staff related to those customers, in addition to our Luxury Managers, Business Development Representatives and other sales staff.

Our awesome team of friendly humans is located in multiple time zones throughout North and South America. Our team values growth and personal development; The RealReal is a great place to develop your professional software and leadership skills.

The RealReal Seller team is looking for a kind and curious Software Engineer (Full Stack) who enjoys solving challenging problems. Our awesome team of friendly humans is responsible for making it easy and compelling for individuals to consign items with The RealReal. We place a strong focus on individual growth and personal development on our collaborative engineering team.

As a Software Engineer you will be an active hands-on contributor as well as an influencer for our technical direction. You will be able to contribute to various initiatives as well as provide feedback through code reviews and pairing. We are especially excited about you if you are enthusiastic about working in the luxury retail/e-commerce space or if you are passionate about our mission of sustainability in creating a circular economy for high-end goods.

This role reports to the Engineering Manager of Seller and will be fully remote.

What You Get To Do Everyday

• Produce high-quality, performant, and testable code that directly contributes to company-wide initiatives
• Develop using interesting technologies -- Elixir, Ruby, React, Typescript, GraphQL, Kafka, AWS/Lambda, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
• Have input into technical decisions that will shape the future of our software systems
• Learn something new, whether its a new software design pattern or new initiative to push the company forward
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback to your peers
• Pair up with a team member to work together on features
• Deploy user-facing code to production
• Act as a strong partner to product and engineering management

What You Bring To The Role

Minimum Requirements:

• 2+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong communication skills
• Understanding of reusable components / building component libraries
• Understanding of building production-ready web applications and systems
• Passionate about testing practices and continuous improvement
• Experience with any of Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, Javascript, NextJs, or another programming language
• Familiarity with common programming tools such as IDEs, RESTful APIs, Git repositories, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools
• Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with event based architectures, database fundamentals and GraphQL
• Enthusiasm for solving problems for our users with technology
• Curiosity about retail/e-commerce, the high-end consignment market, and/or how to create a sustainable, circular economy for luxury goods

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with Javascript, HTML, CSS, and React
• Experience with Kafka for event-streaming
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with Storybook
• Experience building microservices
• Experience building eCommerce platforms
• Experience working with a CMS, especially Prismic
• Any experience with mobile development for iOS and/or Android

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