Software Engineering Manager, CP&I

Who We Are Looking For

NIKE, Inc. is seeking a collaborative and technically strong Software Engineering Manager who can lead, coach, and develop a team while driving scalable, high-quality software solutions.

The ideal candidate has experience building and operating enterprise-scale applications, modern cloud-native platforms, and API-first architectures. You will translate strategy into execution, guide teams through ambiguity, and balance business priorities with technical excellence.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. Any suitable combination of education, experience, and training will be accepted.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading technical initiatives or engineering teams.
• Proven experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers.
• Strong understanding of software engineering practices across the full software development lifecycle.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and domain-driven design.
• Experience with cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and operational support.
• Ability to partner with product managers, architects, and business stakeholders.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and facilitation skills.
• Experience driving process improvements, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to influence decisions, manage competing priorities, and deliver results collaboratively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and S3.
• Experience with TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, or similar technologies.
• Experience with front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Experience implementing AI/ML-enabled solutions and data-driven applications.
• Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, data movement, orchestration, workflow, and content management platforms.
• Experience contributing to architecture reviews, technical forums, tech talks, or engineering communities of practice.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security, privacy, and secure software engineering practices.

What You'll Work On

As a Software Engineering Manager within Consumer Product & Innovation, you will lead a team responsible for building, enhancing, and operating digital capabilities supporting Nike's product creation, merchandising, and consumer innovation ecosystem.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.
• Translate business objectives and product strategy into engineering plans and priorities.
• Drive scalable, reliable, and maintainable software delivery.
• Provide technical leadership on architecture, engineering practices, delivery tradeoffs, and operational excellence.
• Partner with product managers, architects, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders.
• Advance automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and operational readiness.
• Support modular, configurable, API-first capabilities for modern digital products and platforms.
• Improve engineering processes, team effectiveness, quality, reliability, and delivery speed.
• Lead incident reviews and root cause analyses.
• Contribute to resource planning, hiring, talent development, and organizational growth.
• Promote technical knowledge sharing through design reviews, technical forums, communities of practice, and engineering events.

Who You'll Work With

You will lead a team of software engineers within Nike's Consumer Product & Innovation technology organization and report to the Engineering Director. You will work with Product Managers, Principal Engineers, Architects, Data Scientists, Operations teams, and business stakeholders.

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