Director, Software Engineering

Global Technology – Consumer Product & Innovation

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.

NIKE is a technology company. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data and providing leading edge engineering and systems support, our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate and serve consumers more directly and personally.  Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

The Product Innovation and Consumer Creation team provides the foundation for how we make Nike product; from innovation, to design, development, line planning, and merchandising. We build the tools and enable Nike to keep pace with consumers and stay ahead of what they want.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to join our team in Bengaluru, India to lead development of Nike’s Product Design platforms and experiences.

The Director of Engineering will lead, support and develop team members, manage priorities and create results across boundaries. The successful candidate is an inclusive and empowering leader with a history of enabling agile teams to solve technical problems in a product model, including building scalable platforms and web applications.

What will you work on?

In addition to building and managing our multi-team engineering offense in the Bengaluru Capability Center, you will plan engineering capacity, manage third-party engagements, and lead a software delivery organization to innovate and deliver business value at scale. You will also drive engineering excellence and well as best practices for modern web application design and scalable architectures.

Who will you work with?

Your team will be a high-performing group of software engineers that will be looking to you to empower them, remove barriers, and maintain a strong team culture. As a leader in our organization, you will also partner closely with our leadership, Product Managers, Solution Architects, Principal Engineers, and peers across Global Technology to manage priorities and drive alignment on technical decisions.

What you bring

• 15+ years experience leading high performing software engineering teams
• 5+ years in a leadership role with direct reports
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, both technical and business-facing
• Strength in strategic thinking and translating strategy to measurable objectives
• Track record of inspiring others & positive change in solution design, technical delivery, and process improvement
• Passion for learning new technologies, patterns, and practices
• Experience with Agile software development methodology and DevOps (CICD)
• Experience with deploying monitoring and tracing solutions using tools like Splunk, SignalFx and New Relic
• Fluent in modern software architectural principles and patterns (REST, domain-driven design, microservices, etc.)
• Experience with front-end web application tech (javascript, CSS, html5, Vue, React/redux)
• Experience with distributed cloud systems tech (node.js, Python, EC2, Kubernetes, Lambda, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, or Google Cloud/Azure equivalents)
• Experience with 3D computer graphics development preferred
• Experience with implementing and integrating AI, Machine Learning and related data solutions preferred.
• Experience developing, monitoring and supporting highly available microservices and applications
• Experience working within Agile methodologies
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience