Principal, Software Engineer, ITC

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH You will be reporting into the Software Engineering Director, who will guide you to grow and build your career path. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be tasked with working closely with multiple engineering squads across a business-aligned domain in order to solve a wide range of business and technology related problems. Working with Architecture, you will help define the technical design and implementation roadmap across multiple solutions and will work with engineering leadership to ensure we resource and equip our squads with the right expertise to deliver those solutions. Your partners will include Scrum teams, Engineering and Architecture, as well as Product and Business leadership. Through our communities of practice, you will interact with engineers from multiple other squads, and will play a key role in elevating Nike’s engineering culture, standards and best practices, advocating for engineering excellence and innovation. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR As a principal software engineer in Partners and Sports Marketing engineering organization, you will be part of designing and delivering, best in class commerce experiences for our customers worldwide. 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. You will join an extended team of fellow engineers that nurture an engineering culture with its roots in diversity, inclusion and equality. As a team we embrace a DevOps culture and have a can-do mentality. We own the products we build and support. The candidate will have a depth of knowledge and experience in software engineering paradigms. The role will provide the opportunity to identify solutions and solve complex business and technical problems that impact multiple squads. Excellent computer science fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures. Expert proficiency in object oriented programming & design. 14+ years of software engineering experience as an individual contributor developing custom software 5+ years hands-on experience implementing and supporting modern software architectural principles and patterns (microservices, REST, domain-driven design, Devops etc). Strong knowledge of serverless cloud computing (AWS – preferred), containerisation, CI/CD, automated testing. 5+ years hands on experience with distributed cloud systems (node, typerscript, Java, Python, EC2, Lambdas, Elasticsearch or AWS/Google Cloud equivalents). Experience working with NoSQL data stores like Cassandra, DynamoDB, or MongoDB Experience with front-end web application technologies (javascript, CSS, HTML5, React/redux, etc.) Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude, Codex, or similar, using…