Lead Software Engineer

On our Finance Engineering Team, you will innovate and help deliver outcomes supporting our Finance Transformation Journey! We combine contemporary technology, agility, and a collaborative culture to deliver solutions that enable Nike, Inc.'s essential products and services. As a team, we are responsible for developing, deploying, and maintaining services that support complex financial transaction flows globally. Working with our team will be rewarding, collaborative, and definitely not just another job.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

As a TEAM we regularly interact with Finance and Technology partners globally. It is our responsibility to partner with program, product and engineering peers to ensure we are aligning appropriate technology outcomes with prioritized product initiatives. Beyond our team, collaboration with other global engineering teams, business stakeholders, and technical peers to ensure solutions delivered by our team is essential.

Daily you will also work directly with multiple engineering squads mentoring and helping develop team technical talent aligned with Nike technology standards. You will regularly engage with the engineers on our collaborative, diverse DevOps squads to plan and deliver outcomes where financial service, security, reliability and performance globally at scale are expected.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Lead! The primary role on the team is to be hands-on, helping deliver the next generation of commerce platform technology while working to elevate engineering practices and team capability. This role will also help improve the technical aptitude of the team through pairing, code reviews, innovation time and design discussions.

The candidate needs to have experience and an understanding of contemporary design patterns, development, testing, and observability techniques and tools in a DevOps environment. The candidate should also be interested in working collaboratively in a highly technical environment to deliver working software. A learning mindset, excellent problem-solving skills, and strong written and verbal communication are essential. A healthy TEAM culture is important to us. We are excited about people who value diversity and encourage all voices to be heard.

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience
• 2+ years’ Technology Leadership or equivalent experience
• 4+ years’ Node.js / JavaScript programming experience
• 2+ years’ experience in building RESTful micro-services using Java or Node.js
• Demonstrated experience delivering microservice architecture at scale
• Deep understanding and practical application of modern build, continuous integration, and testing strategies
• AWS Environment experience: EC2, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, CLI
• Tool familiarity: Jenkins, GitHub, IntelliJ, Jira
• Deep understanding and practical application of modern build, continuous integration, and testing strategies
• Strong Agile practice experience with Scrum and DevOps

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

Your primary role on the team will be to help multiple squads navigate technical design and implementation strategies. You will innovate, deliver high quality code, share best practices and make critical technical design choices. You will help coach the team to innovate, design, build, test, deploy and maintain sustainable technology. This is a hands-on role, writing code, doing peer reviews, and sharing other DevOps responsibilities, and understanding is essential.