URBN Staff Engineer

URBN•Philadelphia, PA

About The Position

URBN is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join the development of AI-powered digital experiences. We are looking for an experienced full-stack Engineer to join our mission of integrating algorithmic solutions with creative tools. In this unique opportunity, you will use your full-stack engineering skills to implement middleware experiences and cutting-edge algorithms into our rapidly evolving products across our digital ecosystem. You will collaborate with a talented cross-functional team comprising UX designers, data scientists, product managers, and domain experts to deliver significant business impact.

Requirements

AI-Augmented Development: Proficient in leveraging AI-powered development tools (e.g., Cursor, VS Code Copilot, Claude Code, or Gemini) to accelerate code authoring, refactoring, and complex troubleshooting while maintaining high standards for code quality and security.
RESTful APIs & Distributed Systems: Strong background in designing and building scalable RESTful APIs and Distributed Systems. Experience with microservices architecture, consensus patterns, and ensuring high availability across distributed nodes.
System Integration & AI Workflows: Ability to integrate complex workflows and AI/ML services into backend systems using modern orchestration frameworks and event-driven patterns.
Containerization & Cloud: Proficiency with Docker for containerization and experience deploying applications to major public cloud platforms. Skilled in managing serverless workloads, container orchestration, and cloud-native services.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands-on experience defining and managing infrastructure using Terraform or similar tools to ensure reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable environments.
Database Management: Proficiency with relational databases for transactional workloads, including schema design, connection pooling, and performance tuning.
Quality & Automation: Dedication to modern engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and automated code quality standards.

Responsibilities

Design and development of MCP servers for agentic tools using FastMCP or similar technologies.
Design and development of agentic workflows using ADK, A2A, LangGraph, or similar technologies.
Design and development of microservices using FastAPI, GraphQL, or similar technologies.
Develop functional designs while interacting with enterprise architects, developers, business partners, and end users
Collaborating with Product Designers, Product Managers, and other Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products.
Conduct exploratory proof-of-concept studies to assess potential deployment architectures and evaluate new data engineering technologies.
Propose, promote, and facilitate paved paths for algorithm integration and productization, laying foundations for feedback loops and data flywheels.
Collaborate with the team to implement and maintain the ML architecture, including data pipelines and applications that enable training and inference of ML models in production.
Foster strong cross-functional partnerships.
Champion best practices in full-stack algorithm engineering