Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It’s a place where passionate individuals come together to create the future of sport. We are unapologetic about who we are and what we’re after—bringing innovation and inspiration to every athlete* in the world. We look for athletes who can push boundaries, elevate our potential and continue leading us to greatness. The next tastemakers, playmakers, risk takers and glue players. Are you game?
Who You'll Work With
You'll join the Nike Marketing Technology platforms engineering team driving Nike's global Digital Asset Management and content activation systems. The team works at the intersection of platform engineering, AI-driven workflows, and large-scale distributed systems, partnering with product, marketing, and global operations teams.
Who We Are Looking For
As a Software Engineer III, you are a strong technical contributor with ownership across services and platform components. You design and build scalable, resilient systems while guiding best practices in architecture, testing, and performance. You collaborate closely with product and engineering stakeholders, helping translate ambiguous business requirements into robust technical solutions. You play a key role in driving engineering quality through design reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and improving development practices. You are comfortable working in complex distributed systems and have hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures. You are also curious about emerging technologies such as GenAI and actively explore how they can enhance platform capabilities and developer productivity. In addition to the requirements described above, successful candidates will exhibit the following:
5–7 years of experience building scalable distributed systems
Strong expertise in Java/Spring Boot and microservices architecture
Experience designing APIs and working with event-driven systems
Proficiency in React and modern frontend development
Hands-on experience with AWS/cloud-native services and DevOps practices
What You'll Work On
You will lead the development of key platform capabilities enabling scalable, AI-driven Digital Asset Management and content planning across global markets.
Your responsibilities will include:
Designing and developing scalable platform services for Digital Asset Management
Driving architecture decisions and contributing to system design reviews
Improving non-functional aspects like performance, observability, and reliability
Leading code reviews and mentoring junior engineers
Collaborating across teams to enable seamless platform integrations
Driving adoption of modern engineering practices including AI-assisted development
Troubleshooting production issues and ensuring operational excellence
OUR HIRING GAME PLAN
01 Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
02 Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
03 Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
