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# URBN Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Urbn Inc.
- **Location:** Philadelphia, PA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Batch Processing, Static Program Analysis, Code Review, Databases, Data Integrity, Data Stores, Software Debugging, Fault Tolerance, Inventory Management Software, Key Management, Load Testing, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Software Engineering, System Testing, Strategies of Testing, Data Logging, Data Storage Technologies, Database Optimization, Technical Debt, Indexer, Containerization, Low Latency, Asynchronous Programming, Restful APIs, Stream Processing, Dynatrace
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5c16950b61acce41

## About the Role

* 7+ years software engineering; 3+ years in a role with direct ownership of project delivery (technical lead, engineering manager, or senior IC accountable for outcomes, not just code)
 * Experience with AI-assisted development tools and practices to accelerate coding, testing, and debugging
 * Demonstrated track record of taking at least one significant system or platform from design through production launch, including the tradeoffs, setbacks, and cross-team coordination involved
 * Expert-level backend engineering in a modern, high-performance language/framework ecosystem, with strong command of asynchronous programming patterns
 * Deep experience with production-grade data stores: schema/data modeling, indexing, transactions, replication, and query optimization at scale
 * Experience with distributed messaging/event-streaming systems: consumer group management, batch processing, error handling, and partition/scaling management
 * Experience operating containerized workloads in an orchestrated environment (deployments, configuration/secrets management, autoscaling, resource tuning)
 * Comprehensive testing discipline across unit, integration, behavior-driven, and performance/load testing
 * Experience with supply chain / inventory / order management systems a plus
 * Preferred experience with programming language - Python

## Description

URBN is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to Lead development, performance optimization, and production support of URBN's inventory management platform. We're looking for a hands-on technical leader who has taken complex systems from concept through production, architect the solution, rally a team around it, and see it through to a reliable, measurable outcome. You will own outcomes and be accountable for delivery timelines as much as the technology.
Role Responsibilities:

 * Design and own RESTful web services and APIs supporting real-time inventory operations at scale
 * Architect asynchronous event-driven systems and stream processing pipelines, including consumer/producer patterns, batching strategies, error handling, and dead-letter/failure recovery flows
 * Implement complex, business-critical domain logic with an emphasis on 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 to support low-latency reads at scale
 * Own comprehensive test strategy across unit, integration, behavior-driven, and performance/load testing; maintain high coverage standards
 * Own performance and resiliency: define and meet targets for latency, throughput, and query performance; build in redundancy and graceful degradation
 * Lead SRE-like practices: observability (structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, health checks), alerting, capacity planning, and deployment/release engineering
 * Establish engineering standards: static analysis, type checking, automated quality gates, and code review practices
 * Own the technical roadmap end-to-end: scope, sequence, and deliver major platform initiatives from design through production rollout
 * Participate in cross-functional planning with product, ops, and other engineering teams to align technical work with business priorities and deadlines
 * Mentor engineering team members; define technical roadmap and manage technical debt vs. feature velocity
 * Lead on-call support and incident response; diagnose issues across API, database, and cache layers, and drive post-incident follow-through