Senior Backend Architect — Inventory Platform

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Employee discounts

Retirement savings

Job summary

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead development, performance optimization, and production support for URBN's inventory management platform. You will own outcomes, architect the solution, and drive it from design through production with measurable results.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, delivering complex system improvements, and mentoring engineers while ensuring uptime and data integrity across queues, databases, and caches.

Qualifications

• 7+ years software engineering with 3+ years delivering projects
• Experience taking major system from design to production
• Expert backend engineering with asynchronous patterns
• Deep experience with production-grade data stores and indexing
• Experience with distributed messaging/event streaming systems
• Containerized workloads in orchestrated environments
• Strong testing discipline across unit/integration/load testing

Responsibilities

• Design and own RESTful web services and APIs for real-time inventory operations
• Architect event-driven systems and stream processing pipelines
• Implement complex domain logic with emphasis on correctness and data integrity
• Design storage schemas and optimize queries for high throughput
• Design and tune caching for low-latency reads at scale
• Own test strategy across unit, integration, behavior-driven, and performance testing
• Define latency, throughput targets and ensure reliability and redundancy
• Lead SRE-like practices: observability, alerting, capacity planning, deployment
• Establish engineering standards and code quality gates
• Own end-to-end technical roadmap and major platform initiatives
• Collaborate with product, ops, and other teams; mentor engineers
• Lead on-call and incident response and post-incident reviews

Skills

RESTful APIs

Asynchronous programming

Data modeling

Testing discipline

Observability & SRE practices

Leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead development, performance optimization, and production support for URBN's inventory management platform. You will own outcomes, architect the solution, and drive it from design through production with measurable results.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, delivering complex system improvements, and mentoring engineers while ensuring uptime and data integrity across queues, databases, and caches.