URBN Software Engineer II

URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People & Nuuly); Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision insurance

PTO

Employee discounts

Retirement plan

Job summary

URBN is hiring a Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Core Services team. You will work on a Kafka-based event streaming platform and migrate legacy enterprise systems to modern cloud-native services.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and platform engineers to deliver reliable, well-tested integration services, while growing skills in distributed systems and enterprise integration.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python and building/maintaining services or APIs.
• Exposure to event-driven systems or message queues; Kafka is a plus but not required.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and modern CI/CD practices.
• Comfort using agentic coding tools as part of daily workflow.
• Strong written communication and careful code-review habits.
• Eagerness to learn distributed systems and integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain services that participate in our Kafka-based event streaming architecture under guidance.
• Build and support enterprise integration services for migrating from legacy platforms.
• Write and maintain automated tests and participate in code reviews.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Platform Engineers, and other Software Engineers on day-to-day work.
• Investigate and fix defects surfaced during development, testing, or production support.
• Contribute to documentation for the services and patterns you work on.
• Learn and apply Kafka topic design, schema evolution, and service migration patterns.

Skills

Python

Kafka

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Code review

Tools

Kafka

Job description

URBN is hiring a Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Core Services team. We are looking for an engineer with 2-5 years of experience to help build and maintain our Kafka-based event streaming platform and support the migration of legacy enterprise systems into modern, cloud-native services. You will work closely with senior and staff engineers, product managers, and platform engineers to deliver reliable, well-tested integration services, while growing your skills in distributed systems and enterprise integration.

Role 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.
• Use agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar technologies to scope, implement, and troubleshoot well-defined tasks, with your work reviewed against the same standards applied to any pull request.
• 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.

Role Qualifications

• 2-5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Working proficiency in Python, with experience building and maintaining services or APIs.
• Exposure to event-driven systems or message queues (Kafka experience a plus, not required) and a willingness to build deeper expertise here.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and modern CI/CD and testing practices.
• Comfortable using or learning agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as part of the day-to-day workflow.
• Strong fundamentals: clear written communication, careful code review habits, and a bias toward asking questions when scope or requirements are unclear.
• Eagerness to learn distributed systems and enterprise integration patterns from senior team members.

The Perks

URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status.

• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more!

For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

EEO Statement

URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship or service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.