Lead Software Engineer, ITC

Overview

Position Type
Full Time
Career area
Software Engineering
Location
4/F, WeWork, Embassy GolfLinks, Karnataka, Karnātaka 560093, India
Job ID
R-85738

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 be a senior technical voice on Nike's Marketing Technology Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform team — a group building the backbone of Nike's global content supply chain. You will partner with engineering managers, product managers, and architects across the Martech organization to define the technical direction of DAM services, mentor engineers, and ensure the platform scales to meet the demands of Nike's global marketing operations.

Who We Are Looking For

As a Tech Lead for the Digital Asset Management platform, you set the technical north star for the team. You are a hands-on engineer who leads by example as writing production code, driving architectural decisions, and raising the bar on engineering quality. Your leadership is built on deep technical credibility, not formal authority. You are skilled at breaking down complex, ambiguous problems into executable engineering plans. You establish patterns, review designs, and coach engineers through challenging technical problems. You work in close partnership with the engineering manager, owning the technical dimension while your manager handles team health, delivery, and people operations.

You are energized by the challenge of building highly scalable, observable, and resilient systems in a fast-moving product environment. You keep up with the GenAI landscape and translate emerging capabilities into practical improvements for the DAM platform and developer experience.

In addition to the requirements described above, successful candidates will exhibit the following:

7-10 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems

Proven track record as a technical lead or principal engineer on a product platform team

Deep expertise in Java/Spring Boot and cloud-native microservices architecture

Strong experience with event-driven architectures and API design at scale

Hands-on AWS expertise (ECS, SQS/SNS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, and related services)

Experience with Digital Asset Management systems, media workflows, or content supply chain platforms (preferred)

Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers at SE2 and SE3 levels

What You'll Work On

You will own the technical vision and architecture of Nike's DAM platform, enabling scalable ingestion, storage, transformation, and distribution of digital assets across global markets and marketing channels.

Your responsibilities will include:
Defining and evolving the technical architecture of DAM platform services, APIs, and data models

Leading system design reviews and setting architectural standards across the engineering team

Writing and reviewing production-quality code; staying hands-on with critical platform components

Identifying and driving platform-wide improvements in performance, reliability, and observability

Partnering with product and platform teams to translate complex business needs into sound technical solutions

Mentoring SE2 and SE3 engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and pair programming

Establishing engineering best practices, patterns, and tooling to accelerate team velocity

Evaluating and integrating GenAI/AI-powered capabilities into DAM workflows and developer tooling

Acting as a technical liaison between the DAM team and adjacent platform or infrastructure teams

Driving resolution of critical production incidents and leading post-incident reviews

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.

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.