Principal Software Engineer, ITC

About the role

Nike is hiring a Principal Software Engineer within its Partners and Sports Marketing engineering organization. You will report to the Software Engineering Director and work closely with multiple engineering squads across a business-aligned domain to solve business and technology problems. You will partner with Scrum teams, Engineering and Architecture, and Product and Business leadership, and help define technical design and implementation roadmaps.

Key responsibilities

• Work with product and engineering leadership on roadmaps and on the approach to implementing them
• Drive cross-domain alignment and technical delivery of major capabilities across value streams, assessing solution options and their risks
• Provide technical leadership in evaluating, designing and developing major new capabilities, and help establish core platforms
• Mentor software developers through code reviews and ensure work meets industry standards
• Build and maintain relationships with peers and cross-functional partners, and stay up to date with backend development trends

Required profile

• 14+ years of software engineering experience as an individual contributor developing custom software
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience with agile teams in a product model
• Leadership and mentorship experience, with strong communication skills

Required skills

• Excellent computer science fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures
• Expert object-oriented programming and design
• 5+ years implementing modern architectural patterns (microservices, REST, domain-driven design, DevOps)
• Serverless cloud computing (AWS preferred), containerisation, CI/CD and automated testing
• Distributed cloud systems (Node.js, TypeScript, Java, Python, EC2, Lambda, Elasticsearch or AWS/Google Cloud equivalents)
• NoSQL databases such as Cassandra, DynamoDB or MongoDB
• Front-end technologies (JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, React/Redux)
• AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude, Codex) and agentic development patterns