URBN Software Engineer II
Urban Outfitters, Inc.2 days ago
Philadelphia, PA, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Implement and maintain services participating in a Kafka-based event streaming architecture.
- Build and support enterprise integration services during migration from legacy platforms.
- Use agentic coding tools to scope, implement, and troubleshoot well-defined tasks.
- Write and maintain automated tests and participate in code reviews.
- Collaborate with product managers, platform engineers, and software engineers on feature and integration work.
- Investigate and fix defects found during development, testing, or production support.
- Contribute to service documentation and learn team conventions for Kafka topic design, schema evolution, and migration patterns.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Working proficiency in Python and experience building and maintaining services or APIs.
- Exposure to event-driven systems or message queues; Kafka experience is a plus but not required.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably GCP, and modern CI/CD and testing practices.
- Comfort using or learning agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
- Strong written communication, careful code review habits, and willingness to ask questions when requirements are unclear.
- Eagerness to learn distributed systems and enterprise integration patterns from senior engineers.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Paid time off.
- Generous employee discounts.
- Retirement savings benefits.
- Additional benefits may depend on location and employment status.
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About Urban Outfitters, Inc.
Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN) is a publicly traded retail company that designs, sources, and sells apparel, accessories, and home goods for young adults through the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, and related brands, plus e-commerce. Headquartered in Philadelphia and founded in 1970, it operates stores in North America and Europe. The company also runs Nuuly, a clothing rental and resale platform.