Who You'll Work With
You'll join the Nike Marketing Technology platforms engineering team driving Nike's global Digital Asset Management and content activation systems. The team works at the intersection of platform engineering, AI-driven workflows, and large-scale distributed systems, partnering with product, marketing, and global operations teams.
Who We Are Looking For
As a Software Engineer III, you are a strong technical contributor with ownership across services and platform components. You design and build scalable, resilient systems while guiding best practices in architecture, testing, and performance. You collaborate closely with product and engineering stakeholders, helping translate ambiguous business requirements into robust technical solutions. You play a key role in driving engineering quality through design reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and improving development practices. You are comfortable working in complex distributed systems and have hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures. You are also curious about emerging technologies such as GenAI and actively explore how they can enhance platform capabilities and developer productivity. In addition to the requirements described above, successful candidates will exhibit the following:
5–7 years of experience building scalable distributed systems
Strong expertise in Java/Spring Boot and microservices architecture
Experience designing APIs and working with event-driven systems
Proficiency in React and modern frontend development
Hands-on experience with AWS/cloud-native services and DevOps practices
What You'll Work On
You will lead the development of key platform capabilities enabling scalable, AI-driven Digital Asset Management and content planning across global markets.
Your responsibilities will include:
Designing and developing scalable platform services for Digital Asset Management
Driving architecture decisions and contributing to system design reviews
Improving non-functional aspects like performance, observability, and reliability
Leading code reviews and mentoring junior engineers
Collaborating across teams to enable seamless platform integrations
Driving adoption of modern engineering practices including AI-assisted development
Troubleshooting production issues and ensuring operational excellence
Skills Required
- 5-7 years of experience building scalable distributed systems
- Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Experience designing APIs
- Experience with event-driven systems
- Proficiency in React and modern frontend development
- Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native services
- Experience with DevOps practices
- Experience improving performance, observability, and reliability of production systems
- Experience leading code reviews and mentoring junior engineers
- Curiosity about GenAI and emerging technologies
Nike Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nike and has not been reviewed or approved by Nike.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is complemented by options such as a Mega Backdoor Roth and deferred compensation for eligible earners. Financial coaching and structured savings programs support long-term financial security.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a stock discount sits alongside broad-based equity vehicles like RSUs and non-qualified stock options. These avenues expand wealth-building opportunities beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave includes maternity and paternity time, recently expanded in the U.S. to 16 weeks and extended to part-time retail teammates. Additional supports include childcare assistance at select locations and family-building benefits such as fertility, surrogacy, and adoption.
Nike Insights
What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., we innovate to serve athletes*. Every teammate - from coder to creator - plays a role in making these athletes’ dreams real. Our tech, data, and digital teams push limits every day, building the future of sport and the tools that drive it. Here, curiosity is fuel. Innovation is the game plan. Different perspectives keep us on the offense. You’ll solve challenges worth tackling, grow fast and belong to a team that backs you to do the right thing. Bring your drive. Bring your bold. Let’s move the world, together. Take your first step at nike.com/careers * If you have a body, you’re an athlete.
Why Work With Us
At NIKE, Inc., your dedication fuels the future of sport. There is a sense of pride that comes from representing an iconic brand and shaping its future. Here, we treat every day as a new opportunity to push boundaries, ask tough questions and share whole-hearted convictions. We are a team – united by the belief that anything is possible.
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