Senior Engineer — Inventory Management System
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
- 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
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 StatementURBN 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.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years owning project delivery as a technical lead, engineering manager, or senior individual contributor
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools and practices
- Experience taking a significant system or platform from design through production launch
- Expert-level backend engineering in a modern, high-performance language and framework ecosystem
- Strong command of asynchronous programming patterns
- Deep experience with production-grade data stores, including modeling, indexing, transactions, replication, and query optimization
- Experience with distributed messaging or event-streaming systems
- Experience operating containerized workloads in an orchestrated environment
- Comprehensive testing experience across unit, integration, behavior-driven, and performance/load testing
- Experience with supply chain, inventory, or order management systems
- Experience with Python
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What We Do
Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN) is a global consumer-brand portfolio comprising Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, FP Movement, Anthropologie Weddings, Terrain, Menus & Venues, and Nuuly. The company creates unique retail experiences with a focus on creativity and pleasing customers. Its brands cultivate communities and provide inclusive platforms where customers, coworkers, partners, and followers can express themselves through creative expression and community.
