Senior Software Engineer

URBN (Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, Free People & Nuuly)

. Lead development, performance optimization, and production support of URBN's inventory management platform .

Posted 10/13/2026full-timePhiladelphia • Pennsylvania • United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in backend engineering with a focus on designing and optimizing RESTful web services and APIs for inventory management systems. Proficient in implementing asynchronous event-driven architectures and ensuring data integrity through comprehensive testing and performance strategies.

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Backend EngineeringRESTful Web ServicesAsynchronous ProgrammingData Storage OptimizationContainerized Workloads

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringPerformance OptimizationData ModelingQuery OptimizationUnit TestingIntegration TestingBehavior-Driven TestingEvent-Streaming SystemsPythonAI-Assisted Development

Soft Skills

MentoringCross-Functional CollaborationIncident Response

Tools & Technologies

Container OrchestrationConfiguration ManagementStatic Analysis ToolsAutomated Quality Gates

Industry Keywords

Inventory ManagementSupply Chain SystemsOrder Management Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead development, performance optimization, and production support of URBN's inventory management platform
Design and own RESTful web services and APIs supporting real-time inventory operations at scale
Architect asynchronous event-driven systems and stream processing pipelines
Implement complex business-critical domain logic emphasizing correctness, auditability, and data integrity
Design data storage schemas, indexing strategies, and query optimization for high-throughput transactional and audit workloads
Design and tune caching layers and invalidation strategies for low-latency reads at scale
Own comprehensive unit, integration, behavior-driven, and performance/load testing strategy
Define and meet latency, throughput, and query-performance targets; build redundancy and graceful degradation
Lead observability, alerting, capacity planning, and deployment/release engineering practices
Establish engineering standards including static analysis, type checking, automated quality gates, and code reviews
Own the technical roadmap and deliver major platform initiatives from design through production rollout
Participate in cross-functional planning with product, operations, and engineering teams
Mentor engineering team members and manage technical debt versus feature velocity
Lead on-call support and incident response across API, database, and cache layers; drive post-incident follow-through

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of software engineering experience
3+ years in a role with direct ownership of project delivery, such as technical lead, engineering manager, or senior individual contributor accountable for outcomes
Experience with AI-assisted development tools and practices
Track record of taking at least one significant system or platform from design through production launch
Expert-level backend engineering in a modern, high-performance language/framework ecosystem
Strong command of asynchronous programming patterns
Deep experience with production-grade data stores, including schema/data modeling, indexing, transactions, replication, and query optimization at scale
Experience with distributed messaging/event-streaming systems, including consumer group management, batch processing, error handling, and partition/scaling management
Experience operating containerized workloads in an orchestrated environment, including deployments, configuration/secrets management, autoscaling, and resource tuning
Comprehensive testing discipline across unit, integration, behavior-driven, and performance/load testing
Experience with supply chain, inventory, or order management systems is a plus
Experience with Python is preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Paid time off (PTO)
Generous employee discounts
Retirement savings
Anti-harassment training for managers and employees