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.

The Content Technology Team is building solutions for the management and delivery of image and video at the scale of Nike’s global athlete community. We rely upon Agile principles to devise cloud-based solutions to build a best-in-class digital asset management and delivery platform.  We participate in the open-source community and partner with key vendors.  At our core we are a team with diverse talents and interests that strive to build world class platforms. Together we will build a world class asset management and delivery platform. This platform is a key piece to the automates and delivery of dynamic media content to the world’s athletes.  It feels natural for this team to solve challenges that come our way like solving the digital asset production and management.

Goals of the Marketing Technology group at Nike:

•            Automate the production of marketing images and video

•            Support Nike’s Marketing team to inspire athletes using digital media 

•            Collaborate with media production teams to support their creative process

•            Measure our impact and continually improve our connection to the consumer

The Content Technology team will focus on making a scalable management and delivery platform to manage and deliver Nike’s digital media to downstream system such as our CMS, social, and mobile experiences.  We will use the cloud to scale our application, and technologies like CDNs to help provide reliable access to our assets around the globe.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer, you will play an important role in developing an innovative and highly scalable platform to manage (usage rights, permissions, search) and deliver digital assets (image and video) to Nike’s downstream system, as well as to Nike partners. You will use your in-depth experience in software development to write clean, tested, and well-documented code, as well as provide peer code review and mentor other engineers on the team.

You should be a true Full-stack Software Engineer - approximately 40% of your work will be front-end focused, while approximately 60% of your work will be back-end focused.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

  • Innovating, architecting, designing, and implementing highly available, scalable systems, focusing on highly visible marketing initiatives 
  • Contributing ideas for new features and identifying technical areas for improvement proactively 
  • Collaborating with product team members at Nike to design, develop, and deploy a highly scalable digital asset delivery system that is part of our digital asset management platform
  • Collaborate with upstream and downstream technical teams to develop integrations to provide a seamless flow of our marketing assets from curation to delivery
  • Provide technical leadership and best engineering practices to continuously deliver working software by mentoring other developers

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH
This role is part of the Asset Management pillar in Nikes Brand Creative and Digital Assets group within Marketing Technology.  You will work with Product Managers, other engineering / development teams, and QA teams to accelerate software development and increase quality.

WHAT YOU BRING

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or similar field or relevant professional experience, education, and training
  • At Least 6 years’ experience developing highly scalable applications, APIs, and services 
  • At least 6 years' experience with designing and tuning relational database and non-relational databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch)
  • Strong professional experience with NodeJS and React
  • Experience in microservices architecture, domain driven design (DDD), and RESTful Services using languages such as Java, NodeJS, Typescript, and Graphql
  • Experience with modern UI frameworks such as MFE
  • Experience using cloud services to build an integrated application in production (AWS - EC2, ECS, API gateway, Lambda)
  • Experience with implementing CI/CD and leading teams with DevOps responsibilities of deploying and supporting the software in production
  • Experience with E2E observability, monitoring, and notifications
  • You’re a self-starter with a passion for technology and a burning desire to constantly improve yourself, the product, and the codebase 
  • Comfortable working within an exciting fast-paced environment by reducing ambiguity and building trust with the team
  • Willingness to explore new technologies and creative solutions 
  • Strong at estimating work, planning, organization, and implementing complex software projects
  • Familiarity with the challenge of moving large files across a geographically disperse network; knowledge of different accelerated transfer methods and technologies
  • Development experience with digital asset management systems like Nuxeo or Alfresco is a plus

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.

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What You Can Expect

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.

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