Principal Software Engineer

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.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a Principal Software Engineer within the Corporate Functions (CF) Digital Employee Experience (DEE) organization, you will work with a diverse team of engineers and product leaders to design and deliver scalable, reliable platforms that power Nike’s most critical digital and data products. You will also partner closely with UX designers to ensure delivery of high quality, user-centric designs and implementations. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will collaborate closely with stakeholders across product, architecture, AI/ML, and governance to support a wide range of experiences. Your work will help unify the employee experience across domains while ensuring governance compliance, breaking down silos, and driving alignment across globally distributed teams and leadership levels throughout Global Technology.

DEE supports Comms, Sensing, Department of Nike Archives, Legal, Resilience, Security, Global Places and Services, and more.  

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a full-stack Principal Software Engineer to join the Global Technology Corporate Functions (CF) team to deliver scalable software systems, guide engineering teams across our org and advise engineering leaders on technology and system design.  The ideal candidate will have full-stack development experience and possess superior front-end engineering knowledge and ability. The person in this role must have outstanding communication skills, proven data design and implementation experience and a track record of delivering results. This person will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity and will enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic environment as they collaborate with engineers, product management, org leadership, and business partners.

• Developing serverless applications on AWS (familiarity with AWS primitives like lambda, sqs, dynamodb, cloudfront, s3, etc)
• Understanding of how build and scale integrations with 3rd party applications for enterprises
• Strong experience in Typescript, NodeJS, and Github Actions

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

In this role, you will build and deliver scalable software solutions focused on Digital Employee Experience. You will design, implement and integrate new technologies and evolve our EX. You will contribute to all aspects of software engineering from ingestion, transformation, and consumption, and help design and build reusable frameworks, automated workflows, and libraries at scale to support products. You will also participate in architecture and design discussions to process and store high-volume data sets.  You will collaborate with designers and product managers to translate UX/UI designs into interactive web experiences and contribute to front-end architecture decisions and advocate for scalable, maintainable code.

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 an equal opportunity employer. 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.