WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

This role is part of the Nike’s Content Technology team within Marketing Technology team, working very closely with the globally distributed Engineering and Product teams. This role will roll up to the Director Software Engineering based out of Nike India Tech Centre.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for experienced Technology focused and hands on Engineering Manager to join our team in Bengaluru, India.

The engineering manager supports a squad of world class engineers, manages delivery priorities, and ensures high quality and well architected solutions are delivered on time and within budget.

We are looking for

• Academic background in computer science (BS or MS) or equivalent work experience.

• A minimum of 5 years management experience (as direct people manager or equivalent of managing engineers) of high performing software engineering teams and total 12+ years of experience in software development.

• Leadership in a highly collaborative, multi-discipline development team environment.

• Exposure to backend development skills in Java/Spring.

• Experience of building microservices using cloud services to build an integrated application (AWS preferred).

• Exposure to tuning relational database (MySQL) and non-relation DB (MongoDB, Dynamo DB).

• Experience with building data-intensive web applications using modern UI frameworks like React or Polymer.

• Experience working with Product Managers, other development teams, and technology platform teams to accelerate software development and increase quality.

• Experience in goal settings, mentoring hiring and ramping up the teams.

• Comfortable working within an exciting fast-paced environment by reducing ambiguity and building trust with the team.

• Willingness to explore new technologies and creative solutions.

• Strong at estimating work, planning, organization, and implementing complex software projects.

• Experience with implementing CI/CD and leading teams with DevOps responsibilities of deploying and supporting the software in production.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.

• Comfortable working with globally distributed and diverse teams.

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

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

• Provide engineering leadership and best practices to continuously build new platforms and deliver working software.

• Collaborating with product team members at Nike World Head Quarter and India Tech center to design, develop, and deploy a highly scalable digital asset management system and services. 

• Collaborate with upstream and downstream technical teams across Geos to develop integrations to provide a seamless flow of our marketing assets from planning to delivery.  

• Participating in the construction of new features and identifying areas for improvement proactively.

• The squad you lead will work on innovating, architecting, designing, and implementing highly available, scalable systems, focusing on highly visible marketing initiatives.