URBN Software Engineer

Summary

URBN is seeking a Software Engineer to support the ecommerce platforms powering the online shopping experiences for its brands. The role is responsible for participating in the full software development lifecycle, designing microservices and event-driven systems, developing customer-facing applications, and maintaining business-critical software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and development of microservices and event driven systems
• Develop new product features and advance the design of existing code for the Ecommerce applications
• Help determine the requirements, then plan, design, and develop complex and business critical software solutions
• Develop functional designs while interacting with enterprise architects, developers, business partners as well as end users
• Leverage AI coding agents across planning, implementation, and review, and take accountability for the correctness and quality of the resulting code
• React to possible production issues
• Enjoys working in a collaborative team setting

Skills

• Understanding of OO principles and design patterns
• At least 3-5 years of software development experience
• Experience with related browser technologies including JSON, REST, HTML, AJAX, CSS
• Self-starter, ready to learn new concepts and technologies. Willing to take on responsibility for new features and develop them from inception to completion
• Proficient in Python/Golang
• Strong understanding of RESTful services design
• Strong understanding of asynchronous message processing technologies
• Strong data modeling skills
• Hands-on experience with an AI coding agent in a professional codebase (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
• Strong communications skills - able to discuss complex technical problems with developers, QA and BSAs
• Enjoys working across teams and sharing knowledge with other engineers
• Familiarity with search solutions like Elastic Search, Solr
• Demonstrated expertise with Unit Testing frameworks and mocking libraries
• Familiar with Django or other ORM frameworks
• Experience with Tornado/Flask or other web server technologies
• Experience with Vue.js or React or similar web frameworks
• Experience with any NoSQL DB
• Experience with RDBMS preferably postgres/cloud sql
• Experience authoring agent files and reusable skills, and connecting agents to real systems via CLI tools or MCP
• Exposure to data science and Machine learning technologies
• Understanding of cloud hosting platforms and infrastructure

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Understanding of OO principles and design patterns
• At least 3-5 years of software development experience
• Experience with related browser technologies including JSON, REST, HTML, AJAX, CSS
• Self-starter, ready to learn new concepts and technologies. Willing to take on responsibility for new features and develop them from inception to completion
• Proficient in Python/Golang
• Strong understanding of RESTful services design
• Strong understanding of asynchronous message processing technologies
• Strong data modeling skills
• Hands-on experience with an AI coding agent in a professional codebase (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
• Strong communications skills - able to discuss complex technical problems with developers, QA and BSAs
• Enjoys working across teams and sharing knowledge with other engineers
• Familiarity with search solutions like Elastic Search, Solr
• Demonstrated expertise with Unit Testing frameworks and mocking libraries
• Familiar with Django or other ORM frameworks
• Experience with Tornado/Flask or other web server technologies
• Experience with Vue.js or React or similar web frameworks
• Experience with any NoSQL DB
• Experience with RDBMS preferably postgres/cloud sql
• Experience authoring agent files and reusable skills, and connecting agents to real systems via CLI tools or MCP
• Exposure to data science and Machine learning technologies
• Understanding of cloud hosting platforms and infrastructure

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• PTO
• Generous employee discounts
• Retirement savings