Engineering Manager

Company: Nike, Inc.
Location: Beaverton
Posted on: March 24, 2020

Job Description:

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

NIKE is a technology company. From our flagship website and five-star mobile apps to developing products, managing big data and providing leading edge engineering and systems support, our teams at NIKE Global Technology exist to revolutionize the future at the confluence of tech and sport. We invest and develop advances in technology and employ the most creative people in the world, and then give them the support to constantly innovate, iterate and serve consumers more directly and personally. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary and collaborative, taking technology into the future and bringing the world with it.

Does building a scalable suite of platform services to handle the needs of millions of consumers who engage with the Nike web and app ecosystem interest you? If so, come join the Marketing Technology team in the Nike Global Technology organization to be at the forefront of this technology movement! As manager of the Member Access team, you'll be helping to shape the capabilities that power out membership benefits and how we communicate with our consumers.

The team's engineering environment
While Nike Global Technology is a big place, our team's primary concern is building a platform to improve how we engage with our consumers through targeted communications. Our production code is usually written in Java and Javascript and deployed on Amazon's AWS infrastructure. Our architecture is focused on reliability, favoring asynchronous approaches to ensure resiliency and availability.We operate the systems we develop and have a rotating on-call schedule for off-hours contact but during office hours, the team as a whole handles incidents. Getting paged is rare.We practice continuous delivery - every merged pull request goes directly to production with appropriate feature flagging. We collaborate to help each other grow our knowledge and engineering practices, encouraging frequent demos, knowledge sharing sessions, and mentoring relationships where it proves useful to both the individual and team success.PRINCIPLES WE BELIEVE IN THAT WE HOPE YOU SHARE:Our leaders and teams should have a strong sense of pragmatism in how they approach delivering value to consumers.A strong focus on continuous improvement is vital to growth. Clear and honest communication builds trust in both our teams and our peers across the organization.Setting expectations and asking for the same from others allows us to ensure we're working towards success as a team.Providing space for innovation and learning enables a team that is able to act with confidence and maturity when encountering novel situations and challenges.Providing direction, empowering your team, and ensuring they have opportunities to grow make for a happy and productive team.TRAITS OF THE IDEAL PERSON FOR THIS JOB:You love to learn, grow, and effectively bring new ideas to the team.You are comfortable and confident in providing guidance and mentorship to your team and colleagues across the organization. You lead by example and set clear expectations.You have relevant professional experience or a degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, (or another relevant field) with good working knowledge of basic computer science data structures and algorithms.You can design and build web services and event processors using AWS and JVM technologies.You have experience working in at least two different languages, ideally including Java and Javascript.Your broad spectrum of knowledge about data analysis, databases and related data storage paradigms, programming languages, and frameworks informs your decisions.You understand scalable, highly available, and eventually consistent distributed systems.You have excellent written and oral communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.You value collaboration and interaction with your teammates and colleagues, defaulting to sharing early and looking for help when needed over delivering perfect results.

AS A LEADER ON THIS TEAM, THESE ARE OUR EXPECTATIONS:
You have at least 7 years of engineering experience and at least 2 years in a leadership position.You have either been a people manager or had leadership experience that includes a strong focus on people skills including mentorship and coaching.You have proven yourself as a capable leader who focuses on enabling your team to provide value back to the business.Successfully operate within our engineering environment and help guide its evolution over time, this includes a strong focus on DevOps, continuous delivery, and infrastructure-as-code.Review technical designs, code, and tests, giving supportive feedback and asking good questions.Help build and grow a collaborative environment that rewards experiments, initiative, curiosity, and mentoring.Work with your team and peer teams dedicated to content management, membership, notification delivery, and digital marketing to deliver an end-to-end integrated communications and member benefit platform.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

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