Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

NIKE is a technology company. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data and providing leading edge engineering and systems support, our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate and serve consumers more directly and personally. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

What will you work on?

We are building solutions for the management and delivery of images and videos at the scale of Nike’s global athlete community. We rely upon Agile principles to devise cloud-based solutions to build a best-in-class platform. We participate in the open-source community and partner with key vendors. At our core we are a team with diverse talents and interests that strive to build extraordinary platforms. Together we will build a premier platform to manage and deliver Nike digital media. This platform is a key piece to the automation and delivery of dynamic media content to the world’s athletes.

Who are we looking for?

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team to innovate, construct and modernize software solutions for our Marketing asset platform. You will team up with product managers and principal engineers to ensure that new features are built properly. You will be part of making important technology decisions and support the platform in production working directly with marketing professionals. Your success will most often be found in working within your own team and in Nike's larger Global Technology organization. You will build a reputation of mentoring each software engineer that you lead and building a hard-working team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, Information Systems, or similar field or relevant professional experience, education, and training.
• 5 years of experience in full-stack development (backend and frontend) of delivered products and 2 years as a manager or tech lead
• Experience with integration of large systems and custom products
• Experience delivering sophisticated software in an agile development environment on-time and on-budget
• Proactive decision-maker with excellent communication and written skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with e-commerce software solutions and marketing technology
• Experience with digital asset management and delivery of assets for serving e-commerce experiences at scale. ( Nuxeo, Alfresco, Cloudinary, Video Streaming capabilities).
• Experience with AWS services like Fargate, EC2, Lambda, and S3

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers who are committed to improvement and collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver the software technology that enables management and delivery of Nike digital media at scale.
• Lead, manage, encourage, and mentor a squad of 5-8 full-stack engineers, QA, DevOps and SRE at Nike's World Headquarters in Oregon
• Identify and validate opportunities for improvement and obstacle removal through communication, collaboration, documentation, process, and automation
• Participate in designing technical solutions for the long-term, balancing time-to-market versus the health of the platform
• Collaborate with fellow managers to establish our organizational culture and professional development paths
• Champion quality, security, resiliency and other standard processes at the product and team levels
• Stay up to date with Nike technology initiatives, industry trends, emerging technologies, and standard methodologies related to cloud computing and media production, share the knowledge, and make recommendations to the team and leadership
• Establish and implement hiring plans to adapt to meet the challenges of growth
• Work with the Director of Software Development and the larger Nike Marketing Technology organization
• Participate in budgeting conversations.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.