Senior Software Engineer, ITC

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You 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 FOR

We 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 ON

As 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.