Principal Software Engineer

The Role: Principal Software Engineer, Retail Systems

Rue Gilt Groupe is looking for a Principal Engineer to join our expanding Retail Systems Engineering Team in Dublin, IRE. The retail systems/order management team develops robust technology that enables our 35M+ members to complete their exciting online shopping experience starting with the shopping cart and managing their valuable order to shipping and returns. We’re looking for a Principal Engineer who is comfortable working with a team of engineers in an agile environment on our systems integration and development efforts for an eCommerce company that processes thousands of sales daily and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue per year.

What You'll Do:

In this role, you will contribute to our ongoing decomposition efforts to move from monolithic applications to microservices.  You will also contribute to our efforts to move toward asynchronous, event-driven architectures.

You’ll work in a collaborative culture of innovators who make decisions promptly backed by data in a modern development environment. You’ll have the support of a highly talented team of developers and stakeholders on the same mission: to help Rue Gilt Groupe remain a global leader in our industry while being exposed to the latest cloud technologies. 

• Work in one of the hottest markets today, E-commerce
• You’ll get a chance to contribute meaningfully across our portfolio of services
• The ability to work on large scale applications with cloud native solutions

About You:

At Rue Gilt Groupe, diversity enriches our passion, collaboration, kindness and innovation. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where every Associate is empowered to learn, grow and bring their full self to work. Even if you don't check off every qualification in the job description, that's okay. We encourage you to apply to any role that excites you and sparks delight! We can't wait to learn more about you.

• Bachelor’s Degree desired, but not required
• 5+ years of relevant software development experience 
• Experience setting the bar for documentation, coding standards, and testing
• A working knowledge of Agile/Scrum
• Experience with Microservices and Containerization (a must-have!)
• Experience with C#, .Net technologies in a fast-paced production environment
• Experience with cloud computing platforms like AWS or Azure
• Experience with relational databases (ex: Oracle, MySQL) – NoSQL a plus
• Experience with concurrency, multi-threading, and event-driven architectures
• Experience and familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Fluency in English
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholder while working in a collaborative team environment

About the Retail Systems Engineering Team:

The Retail Systems Engineering Team is an extremely impactful team that works in a collaborative, iterative agile environment. We believe in providing the best possible experience we can with a technology focused culture that not only tries to lift the bar on features every sprint, but also stability and performance.

Expected Base Salary Range: 95,000 - 105,000

Rue Gilt Groupe is committed to providing Associates with equal pay for equal work and carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to, prior experience, education, certification(s), license(s), skills and expertise, location,  internal equity, and other factors that are job related and consistent with business need. Our goal is to support, reward and compensate the entire individual. Depending on role eligibility, your offer may also include bonus/commission, stock options, 401(k) participation, paid time off, medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance. Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated.

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