Job Description

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.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
As a Software Engineering Manager, you'll be leading a squad focused on Consumer Services working to provide the best customer experience for our Athletes. You'll work closely with the Product and business teams to align our strategy, manage budget, and pave the future for nice customer service. In this role, you will be instrumental in driving the team to deliver innovative and quality services that enable a consistent, maintainable, and highly scalable experience. You will be an advocate of new technology and development techniques.
The successful candidate is a proven leader with excellent communication, proven execution and delivery skills of highly scalable enterprise grade platforms. Most importantly, you must have the depth of knowledge, experience, and passion to deliver solutions that amaze our consumers.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

• Deliver global, innovative technology solutions against Nike’s Consumer Service Strategy
• Perform as a technical contributor in providing technical leadership and mentorship to the team to ensure conceptual, logical, and integration designs are built following core engineering and architectural principles that meet the supportability, security, and scalability principles.
• Own the resource plans for the area (right talent and team composition)
• Mentor and develop other specialists. Develops proficiencies and skills of team members.
• Prepare and deliver performance reviews and conducts performance management mentorship
• Lead Support and Operations of product in the area of responsibility
• Measure, report and advance domain and service KPIS
• Drive advancements in Dev/Ops such as continuous integration, deployment, and improvement, test automation, instrumentation and observability, SLAs, high-availability, and improvement of ops metrics.
• Disseminate technical knowledge to the team members on emerging ideas through multiple forums (e.g., user groups, tech talks, design reviews, internal blogs).
• Partner closely with Product Managers to ensure that tactics and sequence of technical work

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will work with a team of engineers, scrum masters and product owners to envision and deliver innovative, seamless solutions that enable Nike, Inc.’s products and services to reach millions of consumers through the Nike brand. There will be daily interactions between our teams in Bengaluru, India and Beaverton, USA.
WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other technical areas or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years’ experience in software development
• 2+ years' experience in a technical leadership role of an application development team, including conducting performance evaluations and the mentoring of technical staff
• Strong skills in team leadership and building positive relationships across Product and Engineering.
• Expertise in building cloud scalable, real time and high-performance application and solutions
• Experience in microservice architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful APIs using languages such as Java or Node
• Experience in NoSQL data stores, such as Cassandra, DynamoDB, or similar technologies.
• Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests. Continuous delivery experience preferred
• In-depth knowledge of Engineering essentials such as languages (Java, Python, etc.), source control, relational and non-relational databases
• Commanding knowledge and experience with a diversity of tools and platforms
• Proven track record to rapidly learn new technologies, developing and implementing proof of concepts
• Authoritative understanding of solution and technical design
• Has a strong problem solving and analytical background
• Able to influence and communicate effectively, both verbally and written, with team members, business partners and leadership
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
• Salesforce/Apex experience (nice to have)

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.