WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager at Geographies & Marketplace Experiences - India Technology Center, who will guide you to grow and build your career path. You will be directly working within a team of dedicated engineers that work on the same solutions. You share your experience and technical expertise such that we improve on the longer-term technical strategic direction.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

If you’re ready to innovate and lead in the Digital world, join Nike’s Global Technology - Geographies And Marketplace Experiences Organization. We bring together technology and process expertise to deliver the next generation of applications for Stores team. You are responsible for building next generation tools and services that serve our Athletes with Cart and checkout capability within stores. We are in the process of modernizing and scaling our in-store applications, building scalable applications and services in the cloud.  This is a team that’s always on the offense, working on innovative solutions and building world class solutions to serve Nike teams and consumers around the globe.

As a Technical Lead for the Geographies & Marketplace Experiences team, you will be part of a mission critical team focused on building a high-throughput, low-latency, fault-tolerant Retail Stores Cloud Checkout that drives Nike’s Digital transformation and growth strategies.

• A minimum of 8+ years software development experience.

• Experience working in a highly collaborative, multi-discipline development team environment

• Experience working in a distributed/cloud-based environment (e.g. AWS Services, GCE, Azure etc.)

• Experience in micro service architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful Services using Java and Spring Boot framework mandatorily.

• Demonstrate an AI-first mindset, actively leveraging AI powered developer tools (e.g., Cursor) to accelerate development and learning.

• Experience in micro service architecture, domain driven design, and RESTful Services using languages such as Java

• Experience in Test Driven development – with Junit, Mockito, cucumber, Playwright etc.,

• Experience with monitoring and tracing tools like Splunk, SignalFx, Kibana/Grafana etc.

• Experience working with NoSQL data stores like DynamoDB and relational data stores like MySQL, Oracle etc.

• Experience with continuous integration, unit testing, static analysis, and automated integration tests. Continuous delivery experience preferred.

• Working knowledge of Scrum and agile principles.

• Working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment with globally distributed and diverse teams

• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of project/capabilities that includes requirements evaluation, design, implementation, code reviews, observability, maintenance and support.

• Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other relevant subject area, or equivalent experience

• Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins) and engineering hygiene: GitHub workflows (branching, PR reviews, code quality, collaboration) and release readiness

• Observability and operational readiness using Splunk and SignalFx, including monitoring and alerting

The following would be nice-to-have:

• Experience in designing and implementing highly scalable web applications

• Exposure to Stores application areas like Point of Sale

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

As a Technical lead, you will be part of the Stores Retail Cloud Checkout Engineering team, which is responsible for building next generation tools and services that serve consumer to checkout from Nike Retail Stores and support back-end teams.

In this role, you will

• Contribute on Application Architecture and Design, technical development and delivery of backend cloud native micro services

• Contribute 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 management system and services.

• Contribute to define solution options, provide estimates on effort and risks, and evaluate technical feasibility.

• Strong skills in team leadership and building collaborative relationships with team members and stakeholders

• Define standards and guidelines to ensure quality of the code

• Review application architecture, Design, application code, Test cases, Test Automation Scripts and Test Reports to ensure quality deliverables

• You will use your in-depth experience in software development to write clean, tested, and well-documented code, as well as perform peer code review process and mentor other engineers on the team.

• You will remain current with industry trends and participate in development of key innovation features.

• You will support the team’s agile practices, promoting continuous improvement and collaboration to deliver top-notch in-store applications.

• Leverage GenAI powered capabilities (RAG, prompt driven workflows, MCP and spec driven architectures) to deliver faster, scalable, intelligent capabilities & experiences

• Ensure quality of the code and products throughout the entire development lifecycle (DevOps) 

• Ensure continuous improvement in performance, scalability, extensibility, reliability, usability, and availability of the platform

• Leverage agile methodology concepts for quality, delivery and continuous improvement

• Participate in sprint planning and other scrum ceremonies. Help team plan and execute sprint tickets

• Work in full DevOps model in the entire tech stack including designing, implementing, deploying, monitoring, and operating services at scale

• Resolve technical issues and remove blockers for the team

• Actively participate in code review and feedback for other developers

• Own build, test, release, and production support for team‑owned capabilities, ensuring stability, incident resolution, and continuous improvement

• Implement strong observability and operational readiness using Splunk and SignalFx, including monitoring and alerting