Backend Platform Engineer — Scale, Streaming & Cloud

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

PTO

Employee discounts

Retirement savings

Job summary

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc. in Philadelphia is seeking an Engineer to mature Nuuly's platform into a stable, scalable backbone for ongoing innovations.

You’ll work with JVM tools (Kotlin, Spring, Micronaut) and integrate Kubernetes services with cloud APIs (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure). You will lead design discussions, mentor teammates, and help evaluate new technologies, balancing rapid delivery with long-term platform reliability.

Qualifications

• 4 years or more experience with server-side development projects.
• Knowledge of one or more server-side OO programming languages.
• Able to discuss streaming data and distributed system design.
• Experience with testing and test-driven development.
• Experience with cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure) and web services.

Responsibilities

• Engaging in discussions and decision making for new features and platform evolution.
• Collaborating with the product team to design solutions for stakeholder features.
• Delivering the whole lifecycle of deployable features: code, configuration, documentation, and support.
• Contributing to roadmaps and process development to deliver features and evolve our architecture.
• Collaborating with QA & Product teams to test code and keep our integrated testing environments unblocked.

Skills

Server-side development

OOP languages

Streaming data

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Java / Kotlin / Scala

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Storm

Cassandra

REST APIs

Job description

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc. in Philadelphia is seeking an Engineer to mature Nuuly's platform into a stable, scalable backbone for ongoing innovations.

You’ll work with JVM tools (Kotlin, Spring, Micronaut) and integrate Kubernetes services with cloud APIs (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure). You will lead design discussions, mentor teammates, and help evaluate new technologies, balancing rapid delivery with long-term platform reliability.