URBN Staff Software Engineer

URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People & Nuuly); Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

URBN is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the development of AI-powered digital experiences. We are looking for an experienced full-stack Engineer to join our mission of integrating algorithmic solutions with creative tools.

You will collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver significant business impact across our digital ecosystem. Role involves building MCP servers, agentic workflows, and AI-enabled microservices with a strong emphasis on scalable architectures, reliability,

Qualifications

• AI-Augmented Development: leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate coding while upholding quality and security.
• RESTful APIs & Distributed Systems: design scalable APIs and distributed architectures.
• System Integration & AI Workflows: integrate AI/ML services into backend systems.
• Containerization & Cloud: Docker and cloud deployment, serverless and orchestration.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform for reproducible, version-controlled environments.
• Database Management: relational DB design, pooling and performance tuning.
• Quality & Automation: CI/CD, TDD and automated code quality standards.
• 10+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of MCP servers for agentic tools using FastMCP or similar technologies.
• Design and development of agentic workflows using ADK, A2A, LangGraph, or similar technologies.
• Design and development of microservices using FastAPI, GraphQL, or similar technologies.
• Develop functional designs while interacting with architects, partners, and end users.
• Collaborating with Designers, Product Managers, and other Engineers to deliver user-facing products.
• Conduct exploratory PoCs to assess deployment architectures and new data engineering tech.
• Promote pathways for algorithm integration and productization with data flywheels.
• Collaborate to implement and maintain ML architecture, data pipelines and training/inference in production.
• Foster strong cross-functional partnerships.

Skills

AI-Augmented Development

RESTful APIs

Distributed Systems

System Integration & AI Workflows

Containerization & Cloud

Infrastructure as Code

Database Management

Quality & Automation

10+ years experience

Tools

Docker

Terraform

FastAPI

GraphQL

Job description

URBN is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the development of AI-powered digital experiences. We are looking for an experienced full-stack Engineer to join our mission of integrating algorithmic solutions with creative tools. In this unique opportunity, you will use your full-stack engineering skills to implement middleware experiences and cutting-edge algorithms into our rapidly evolving products across our digital ecosystem. You will collaborate with a talented cross-functional team comprising UX designers, data scientists, product managers, and domain experts to deliver significant business impact.

Role Responsibilities

• Design and development of MCP servers for agentic tools using FastMCP or similar technologies.
• Design and development of agentic workflows using ADK, A2A, LangGraph, or similar technologies.
• Design and development of microservices using FastAPI, GraphQL, or similar technologies.
• Develop functional designs while interacting with enterprise architects, developers, business partners, and end users
• Collaborating with Product Designers, Product Managers, and other Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products.
• Conduct exploratory proof-of-concept studies to assess potential deployment architectures and evaluate new data engineering technologies.
• Propose, promote, and facilitate paved paths for algorithm integration and productization, laying foundations for feedback loops and data flywheels.
• Collaborate with the team to implement and maintain the ML architecture, including data pipelines and applications that enable training and inference of ML models in production.
• Foster strong cross-functional partnerships.

Role Qualifications

• AI-Augmented Development: Proficient in leveraging AI-powered development tools (e.g., Cursor, VS Code Copilot, Claude Code, or Gemini) to accelerate code authoring, refactoring, and complex troubleshooting while maintaining high standards for code quality and security.
• RESTful APIs & Distributed Systems: Strong background in designing and building scalable RESTful APIs and Distributed Systems. Experience with microservices architecture, consensus patterns, and ensuring high availability across distributed nodes.
• System Integration & AI Workflows: Ability to integrate complex workflows and AI/ML services into backend systems using modern orchestration frameworks and event-driven patterns.
• Containerization & Cloud: Proficiency with Docker for containerization and experience deploying applications to major public cloud platforms. Skilled in managing serverless workloads, container orchestration, and cloud-native services.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands-on experience defining and managing infrastructure using Terraform or similar tools to ensure reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable environments.
• Database Management: Proficiency with relational databases for transactional workloads, including schema design, connection pooling, and performance tuning.
• Quality & Automation: Dedication to modern engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and automated code quality standards.
• 10+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role.

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, 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.