Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Growth & Item Platform (Remote)

The RealReal; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

401K with Company Match

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

9 Paid Company Holidays

Flexible Time Off

Job summary

The RealReal is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join the Growth team. You will build backend services and internal tooling that power item lifecycle, enrichment, and merchandising workflows for on-platform experiences.

You will work across JVM (Java, Kotlin), Elixir, Ruby, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and AWS/Lambda to deliver scalable solutions, partnering with product and engineering leadership while advancing our sustainability mission in luxury e-commerce.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building production-ready web applications and backend systems with reliability and security in mind.
• Ability to influence technical direction and drive end-to-end features.
• Familiarity with JVM services (Java, Kotlin) and web stacks.
• Strong communication with product, stakeholders, and peers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship backend services and internal tooling for item creation, enrichment, configuration, listing, and merchandising workflows.
• Produce high-quality, performant, secure, and testable code contributing to company initiatives.
• Develop across the stack including JVM, Elixir, Ruby, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Kafka, AWS/Lambda, and databases.
• Own medium-to-large features end to end and influence architecture and standards.
• Review PRs, pair programming, and support onboarding; deploy code to production responsibly.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Elixir

Ruby

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Kafka

AWS/Lambda

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

RESTful APIs

Git

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Next.js

JavaScript/TypeScript tooling

IDE / Git repositories / remote deployment tooling

Job description

The RealReal is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join the Growth team. You will build backend services and internal tooling that power item lifecycle, enrichment, and merchandising workflows for on-platform experiences.

You will work across JVM (Java, Kotlin), Elixir, Ruby, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and AWS/Lambda to deliver scalable solutions, partnering with product and engineering leadership while advancing our sustainability mission in luxury e-commerce.