Software Engineer II, Kafka & Enterprise Integration

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc.; Philadelphia, Northern (Philadelphia County, KY); 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. is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Core Services team in Philadelphia.

You will help build and maintain a Kafka-based event streaming platform while migrating legacy systems to modern, cloud-native services. The role requires 2–5 years of software engineering experience, strong Python skills, familiarity with event-driven architectures, and comfort with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python for building and maintaining services.
• Exposure to event-driven systems or message queues (Kafka experience a plus, not required) and a willingness to build deeper expertise here.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain services that participate in our Kafka-based event streaming architecture, under the guidance of senior team members.
• Build and support enterprise integration services as part of the migration off legacy platforms.
• Write and maintain automated tests, and participate actively in code review - both giving and receiving feedback.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Platform Engineers, and other Software Engineers on day-to-day feature and integration work.
• Investigate and fix defects surfaced during development, testing, or production support, escalating ambiguous or architectural questions to senior engineers.
• Contribute to documentation for the services and patterns you work on.
• Learn and apply the team's conventions for Kafka topic design, schema evolution, and service migration patterns.
• Use agentic coding tools to scope, implement tasks and ensure code reviews meet standards.

Skills

Python

Kafka

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Agentic coding tools

Communication

Distributed systems

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Job description

URBN Urban Outfitters, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Core Services team in Philadelphia.

You will help build and maintain a Kafka-based event streaming platform while migrating legacy systems to modern, cloud-native services. The role requires 2–5 years of software engineering experience, strong Python skills, familiarity with event-driven architectures, and comfort with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and CI/CD practices.