URBN Software Engineer II

Urban Outfitters•Philadelphia, PA

About The Position

URBN is hiring a Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Core Services team. We are looking for an engineer with 2-5 years of experience to help build and maintain our Kafka-based event streaming platform and support the migration of legacy enterprise systems into modern, cloud-native services. You will work closely with senior and staff engineers, product managers, and platform engineers to deliver reliable, well-tested integration services, while growing your skills in distributed systems and enterprise integration.

Requirements

2-5 years of professional software engineering experience.
Working proficiency in Python, with experience building and maintaining services or APIs.
Exposure to event-driven systems or message queues (Kafka experience a plus, not required) and a willingness to build deeper expertise here.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and modern CI/CD and testing practices.
Comfortable using or learning agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as part of the day-to-day workflow.
Strong fundamentals: clear written communication, careful code review habits, and a bias toward asking questions when scope or requirements are unclear.
Eagerness to learn distributed systems and enterprise integration patterns from senior team members.

Nice To Haves

Kafka experience a plus

Responsibilities

Implement and maintain services that participate in our Kafka-based event streaming architecture, under the guidance of senior team members.
Build and support enterprise integration services as part of the migration off legacy platforms.
Use agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar technologies to scope, implement, and troubleshoot well-defined tasks, with your work reviewed against the same standards applied to any pull request.
Write and maintain automated tests, and participate actively in code review - both giving and receiving feedback.
Collaborate with Product Managers, Platform Engineers, and other Software Engineers on day-to-day feature and integration work.
Investigate and fix defects surfaced during development, testing, or production support, escalating ambiguous or architectural questions to senior engineers.
Contribute to documentation for the services and patterns you work on.
Learn and apply the team's conventions for Kafka topic design, schema evolution, and service migration patterns.