The URBN Engineering team is responsible for building the front-end experiences that power URBN's major brands: Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People. Our challenges range from writing algorithms which serve personalized landing pages to solving the complex UI data structures of our product detail pages. We work closely with embedded product, user experience, and design teams to build performant and forward-thinking e-commerce experiences for our customers. Do you enjoy building inclu... more details
URBN Senior Software Engineer, Web
LocationUS-PA-Philadelphia
ID2024-8333
Job Family
Technology
Employee Type
Regular
Position Type
Full-Time
Remote
No
Role Summary
The URBN Engineering team is responsible for building the front-end experiences that power URBN’s major brands: Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, and Free People. Our challenges range from writing algorithms which serve personalized landing pages to solving the complex UI data structures of our product detail pages. We work closely with embedded product, user experience, and design teams to build performant and forward-thinking e-commerce experiences for our customers.
Do you enjoy building inclusive, performant, accessible, and standards-compliant websites? Us too! Do you appreciate learning, iterating, and solving new challenges? That’s great! We have the unique task of improving customer interactions across our e-commerce sites every day. Have you ever wanted to contribute to a code base used by millions of customers? Do you want to be part of a team that gets to improve upon that code base as a result of user testing, data gathering, and performance audits? We think it’s a unique and rewarding endeavor and if you do too, we’d love to hear from you!
Quick Facts about Us
We use Vue!
We also write many of our JS files in Typescript.
Many of our engineers find great value in working with AI tools to enhance their development.
Above all, we are collaborative.
Role Responsibilities
Implementing and maintaining the web user interfaces that power all URBN Brands from a single code base.
Modeling expertise in writing code that is readable, maintainable, well tested, and documented.
Designing efficient and reusable front-end systems (JavaScript/Node/Vue.js).
Collaborating with Product Designers, Product Managers, and other Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products.
Performance, scalability, and accessibility are top of mind. Finding ways to weave improvements in these areas into all our work is a must.
Contribute ideas for improvement around coding standards and process to ensure we are applying modern best practices to our work.
Participates in Pair Programming and presenting tech topics to the team.
Practice giving and receiving graceful, thoughtful, and effective peer review.
Leading medium to large feature implementation with low oversight.
Foundational understanding of the HTTP protocol (status codes, http verbs)
Able to implement best practices for SEO and Accessibility across many devices
Comfortable using developer tools, IDEs debugging, and third-party tools such as Google’s Lighthouse to optimize web page and code performance
A firm understanding of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation
Familiarity with responsive web design patterns in semantic HTML/CSS
CSS and JS preprocessing like SASS / Babel
Ability to drive Git processes, branching strategy, and conflict resolution
Strong communications skills -?able to discuss complex technical problems across teams and non-technical audiences
Proficient with modern JavaScript frameworks (Vue, React) and Webpack
Understanding of state management methods and implementation (Vuex/Redux)
Experience with writing universal/isomorphic web applications using Node
Deep understanding of RESTful paradigms
Familiarity with Continuous Integration and build automation
Device and browser testing using automation (testcafe/webdriver.io)
Comfortable using AI tools to aid in development (Co-Pilot, Gemini, etc.)
Open to mentoring others on the team
Active in the open source community
The Perks
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 visitwww.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits
EEO Statement
URBN 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.
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