Nike Lead Software Engineer - Tech Modernization 

United States, Oregon, Beaverton 

135433709

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Perform technical and impact analysis, create technical designs, and help create implementation plans to replace existing technology solutions; this will involve engaging, collaborating, and partnering with the teams who build and maintain Nike's production systems and services
• Lead the technical design and development of efficient, reusable, secure, and resilient technology solutions to replace existing deprecated software in direct support of Nike’s multi-year simplification and modernization journey
• Lead hands-on software engineering and coding tasks aligned to multi-year platform roadmaps, Global Technology standards, and modern industry trends
• Help evolve standards and best practices to drive continuous transformational changes to Nike’s platform engineering culture and accelerating technical maturity in innovation, experimentation, and developer productivity
• In addition, you will also help enable cross-team collaboration across software engineering teams by growing and supporting the culture of communities of practices (COPs) for specialized multi-disciplinary technical areas, including Observability, API, Data, AI/ML, Kubernetes, DevOps, Cloud, Pipeline, Disaster Recovery, OpenSource, etc.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or similar field or relevant professional experience, education, and training
• 6+ years software engineering experience as an individual contributor developing custom software using common languages or technologies including but not limited to Java, Golang, Python, Node.js, React, or JavaScript
• 3+ years in a lead engineering role responsible for system design decisions and leadership on engineering squads focused on delivering enterprise scale systems
• 3+ years professional experience with Cloud Native technologies on AWS, with proven experience in tackling cloud challenges around clustering, end-to-end service design, resiliency, reliability, streaming, high-availability / disaster recovery (HA/DR) and complex distributed systems
• 2+ years professional experience with container runtimes, such as Kubernetes, deployment tools like Terraform, and configuration management solutions like Ansible
• Experience delivering multiple complex transformations and software migrations
• Deep foundational knowledge of software engineering practices, particularly on distributed systems and cloud native architectures

“Soft” Skills include:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, feeling as comfortable addressing executives as the software engineering team
• High emotional intelligence with the ability to bring diverse groups together to tackle common goals
• Highly passionate about delivery, being comfortable with both providing technical direction as well as being a contributing member of the team
• Thinks long-term and holistically, and takes ownership of ambiguous problems to drive results