WHO YOU'LL WORK WITHYou will report to the Senior Engineering Manager- the enterprise team that curates, governs, and serves Nike Direct and Marketplace data products to BI Experience teams and other GT domains. You will be a senior individual contributor on the squad, working alongside Leads and Principal engineers to deliver complex backend and data systems. You will mentor SWE I and SWE II engineers, drive technical design within your squad, and influence patterns and standards that cross-squad teams adopt.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FORWe are looking for senior engineers who own outcomes end-to-end - engineers who can decompose ambiguous problems, drive high-quality designs, and ship complex systems with minimal oversight.
- A minimum of 5-8 years of backend and/or data engineering experience.
- Strong expertise in at least one of Java, Python, or Scala, and confident fluency in SQL and data modeling.
- Proven experience designing and shipping production microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems.
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms - Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog (or equivalent) - and orchestration tools such as Airflow.
- Solid cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) including IAM, secrets, networking, and cost-aware design.
- Experience leading non-trivial technical designs, writing design documents, and driving them through review with peers.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers - code reviews, pairing, and design coaching.
- Experience with distributed messaging (Kafka, SQS), caching (Redis), and search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch) where relevant.
- Strong test-driven development discipline, including productive use of AI tools like GitHub Copilot.
- Experience with CI/CD, observability (metrics/tracing/alerting), and incident response.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to influence both engineers and senior product/business partners.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field - or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience with data governance, RLS/ABAC, ontology/semantic layers, dbt, agentic/LLM-powered analytics layers, or large-scale BI platforms.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ONAs a Software Engineer III in Marketplace Data Engineering, you will own meaningful slices of our data products, APIs, and pipelines - and influence how the broader team builds.
- You will lead the design and delivery of significant backend and data services that serve Marketplace and Nike Direct data to BI Experience teams and enterprise consumers.
- You will drive technical design reviews within your squad - choosing patterns, defining contracts, and trading off scope, complexity, and timeline with product partners.
- You will raise the engineering bar through high-leverage code reviews, pairing, and authoring patterns and blueprints that other squads adopt.
- You will own production reliability and operational quality of the services you build - leading on-call, capacity planning, and post-incident learning.
- You will mentor SWE I and SWE II engineers on the squad and contribute to their growth through career and skills coaching.
- You will partner with the Platform team to adopt recommended toolkits and contribute back improvements when patterns fall short of our needs.
- You will collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams and represent your squad in cross-org technical forums.
