What are the responsibilities and job description for the URBN Senior Software Engineer position at URBN?
Role Summary
URBN is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive service development, API architecture, and distributed systems integration. This role requires deep expertise in Python, API development, and event-driven architectures, particularly using Kafka. The ideal candidate will take ownership of core services, guide best practices, and play a key role in shaping the team’s technical direction while remaining hands-on in development.
This is a high-impact role that requires balancing ongoing feature development with long-term platform improvements. We value engineers who can write clean, maintainable code, think critically about design choices, and help raise the bar for software quality.
Role Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable services and APIs.
- Architect and optimize event-driven systems, leveraging Kafka and asynchronous processing.
- Improve system performance, troubleshoot issues, and enhance reliability through thoughtful design and code quality.
- Mentor engineers, review code, and advocate for best practices in service development.
- Collaborate with product and frontend teams to build well-integrated APIs and service interactions.
Role Qualifications
- Effective communicator with strong problem-solving skills, able to collaborate across teams on complex systems.
- Expertise in Python, with experience designing and maintaining production systems.
- Strong background in building APIs and integrating with service-oriented architectures.
- Experience with event-driven systems, particularly Kafka, and understanding of stream processing concepts.
Bonus Skills & Experience
- Experience designing and scaling cloud-based services, with exposure to platforms like Google Cloud.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Interest in prompt engineering and emerging GenAI applications in software development.
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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.
