Lead Software Engineer

About the role

You will report to the Senior Engineering and will be the technical leader for one of our data product squads. You will partner closely with Product Managers, Architects, BI Experience leads, and other engineering leads across Nike to define the strategy and roadmap for our consumption and ontology layers.

What you'll do

• Lead the design of consumption layers, APIs, and pipelines that BI Experience teams build on — establishing patterns, contracts, and quality bars
• Drive aggressive simplification and unification of our data products landscape, reducing KLO/TCO while improving consistency
• Co-create agentic and ontology-driven consumption experiences with BI Experience teams
• Own production reliability, scalability, and security for your squad's services — leading incident response, capacity planning
• Mentor and grow the SWE I and SWE II engineers on the squad, raising the technical bar through reviews, pairing, and design coaching

What you need

• 7–10 yrs of experience
• SQL
• Java
• Python
• Git
• AWS
• Microservices
• M.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• LLMs
• dbt
• Data modelling
• GraphQL
• GCP
• IAM