Senior Software Engineer - ITC

Who You'll Work With

You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager on the enterprise team that curates, governs, and serves Nike Direct and Marketplace data products to BI Experience teams and other technology groups. You will be a senior individual contributor working alongside Lead and Principal Engineers to deliver complex backend and data systems. You will mentor SWE I and SWE II engineers, drive technical design within your squad, and influence patterns and standards adopted by cross-squad teams.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for senior engineers who own outcomes end-to-end, decompose ambiguous problems, drive high-quality designs, and ship complex systems with minimal oversight.

• 5–8 years of backend and/or data engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Java, Python, or Scala, with confident fluency in SQL and data modeling.
• Experience designing and shipping production microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog or equivalent, and orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including IAM, secrets, networking, and cost-aware design.
• Experience leading technical designs, writing design documents, and driving peer reviews.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design coaching.
• Experience with distributed messaging, caching, and search technologies such as Kafka, SQS, Redis, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Strong test-driven development discipline, including productive use of AI tools such as GitHub Copilot.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred experience includes data governance, RLS/ABAC, ontology or semantic layers, dbt, agentic or LLM-powered analytics layers, and large-scale BI platforms.

What You'll Work On

• Own meaningful slices of data products, APIs, and pipelines and influence how the broader team builds.
• Lead the design and delivery of backend and data services serving Marketplace and Nike Direct data to BI Experience teams and enterprise consumers.
• Drive technical design reviews, choosing patterns, defining contracts, and balancing scope, complexity, and timelines with product partners.
• Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, pairing, and authoring patterns and blueprints adopted by other squads.
• Own production reliability and operational quality, including on-call, capacity planning, and post-incident learning.
• Mentor SWE I and SWE II engineers and contribute to their career and skills development.
• Partner with the Platform team to adopt recommended toolkits and contribute improvements.
• Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams and represent the squad in cross-organizational technical forums.

NIKE, Inc. offers a generous total rewards package, a casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional development. NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.