Senior Software Engineer

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

Role Qualifications

• 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